Омофоны — слова, которые звучат одинаково, но пишутся по-разному.
Сравните: ATE (форма прошедшего времени глагола EAT) и EIGHT (восемь). Это и есть омофоны.
В английском они возникли вследствие исторически сложившегося разного обозначения на письме одного и того же согласного или гласного звука, например: WHOLE — HOLE, KNEW — NEW; DEAR — DEER, BEAR — BARE.
Очень часто путают также: YOUR — YOU'RE, TO — TOO, THEN — THAN, AFFECT — EFFECT.
Чтобы отличить одно слово от другого и не ошибиться нужно, разумеется, знать значение и правописание каждого из слов и внимательно анализировать смысл предложения. В таблице ниже – самые популярные «часто путаемые» слова
Внимательно изучите этот список, а затем проверьте себя на практике, выполнив небольшое (но очень полезное!) задание:
English Homophones
English (especially British English) is not spelt phonetically. Two words can share none, any or all of Spelling, Pronunciation and Meaning. All languages have synonyms (words with unrelated spelling and pronunciation but the same meaning) and words with multiple meanings. However English has an exceptional disparity between spelling and pronunciation.
The possible combinations or some but all characteristics being the same are as follows:-
Spelling | Pronunciation | Meaning | Classification | Example |
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Same | Different | Different | Homonym | refuse |
Different | Same | Different | Homophone | See below |
Same | Same | Different | Multiple meanings | trap |
Different | Different | Same | Synonym | rare/uncommon |
Same | Different | Same | Alternative pronuncation | Schedule (British/American pronuncation) |
Different | Same | Same | Alternative spelling | jail/gaol |
This page is about homophones. Words with different meanings and spellings, but the same (UK) pronunciation.
Homophones
This is a list of British-English homophones. See the explanation page for details of the inclusion criteria.
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Near misses
These are word pairs that have been suggested but rejection, for one of the following reasons:-
- Not precisely the same pronunciation. I only reject on this grounds, if my dictionary gives different pronunciation (or is unclear) and I think there is a difference, or am not sure how one of the words in pronounced.
- accept, except
- acetic, ascetic
- advice, advise
- affect, effect
- axe, acts
- axle, axil
- deal, dele
- caret, carrot
- close, clothes
- cask, casque
- deuce, juice
- facts, fax
- formerly, formally
- halve, have
- hostel, hostile
- ion, iron
- jota, jotter
- liar, layer
- loch, lock
- mana, manna
- ordinance, ordnance
- paw/pore/pour, poor
- pecan, pekan
- picture, pitcher
- plaintiff, plaintive
- prince, prints
- presence, presents
- tense, tents
- wan, won
- The two spellings have a meaning in common. Even if each spelling has distinct meanings, any common mean classifies them as alternative spellings rather than homophones. (American, or other non-British, spellings are ignored for this purpose.)
- ambiance, ambience
- assay, essay
- aught, ought
- cot, cote
- depositary, depository
- forbear, forebear
- forego, forgo
- gage, gauge
- gel, jell
- genet, jennet
- gibe, gybe
- gray, grey
- grill, grille
- groin, groyne
- gunnel, gunwale
- hippie, hippy
- main, maine
- prise, prize
- ray, re
- ton, tonne
- It would be double counting. If two forms of two words are different homophones, then I only count a single example.
I list complement/compliment and hence don't list complementary/complimentary. I normally list the simplest form (singular rather than plural; present tense etc.) unless other form is a longer list.
e.g. I list holey/holy/wholly rather than hole/whole. - Proper nouns and associated adjectives are not allowed, notably a lot of nations, nationalities, and place names are pronounced the same as common nouns.
- Capitol, capital
- Crewe, crew
- Czech, check/cheque
- Chile, chilly/chilli
- Dane, deign
- Greece, grease
- Hungary, hungry
- Lapp, lap
- Nice, niece
- Pole, poll
- Rome, roam
- Sikh, seek
- Thai, tie
- Towcester, toaster
- Wales, whales
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