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English Multinyms

64 pointsby myroon52 months ago

15 comments

sandbach2 months ago
&#x27;Polynyms&#x27;, surely.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Barbarism_(linguistics)" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Barbarism_(linguistics)</a>
bilekas2 months ago
I&#x27;ve never heard of &#x27;Multinyms&#x27; but I am right in thinking they&#x27;re just homophones ?
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walthamstow2 months ago
This is extremely dependent on dialect and accent, but they don&#x27;t specify which one they&#x27;re talking about.<p>&gt; borough, burro, burrow<p>Nah, not &#x27;round &#x27;ere they ain&#x27;t.
yubiox2 months ago
I also maintain a list of these. Here are some I don&#x27;t see there:<p>greater grater grader<p>baron barren bearing<p>your cees, seas, sees, seize is missing cease<p>grisly grizzly gristly<p>pedal peddle petal<p>I also put since with cense, cents, scents, sense<p>steal steel still<p>peal peel pill<p>If you need help: Ewe mite higher too guise two bee yore assistance.
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sparsely2 months ago
Some of these have different pronunciation (depending on accent?), e.g. parish vs perish
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rahimnathwani2 months ago
<p><pre><code> Thanks to Warren Kinney for distinguishing the British pronunciation of &quot;new&quot; and &quot;knew&quot; </code></pre> I&#x27;m confused about this. I&#x27;m from London, and I say these two words exactly the same way.
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tgv2 months ago
Multinyms, so words with multiple pronounciations&#x2F;names?<p>Anyway, I&#x27;m not a native speaker, but e.g. air, are, e&#x27;er, ere, err, heir does not sound identical to me. The Oxford English Dictionary says: ɛː, ɑː&#x2F;ə, ɛː, ɛː, əː, ɛː, which makes are and err different. Unfortunately, the author doesn&#x27;t give a source, so it&#x27;s probably just his dialect?
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amichal2 months ago
This reminds me of <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffal...</a><p>Edit: It&#x27;s not on the list because its using multiple meanings of the same spelling...
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scottshambaugh2 months ago
Throw in regional accents and you’ll get many more! Aaron earned an iron urn: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;Esl_wOQDUeE?si=J34OmyDod7GHUrl1" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;Esl_wOQDUeE?si=J34OmyDod7GHUrl1</a>
smckk2 months ago
Real eyes realize real lies.
djoldman2 months ago
&gt; Sextuplets:<p>&gt; air, are, e&#x27;er, ere, err, heir<p>When does &quot;are&quot; sound like the rest?
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DannyB22 months ago
For: call, caul, col<p>Wot about: cawl ?
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crustycoder2 months ago
Many of these are totally pants&#x2F;panz&#x2F;pænts
petesergeant2 months ago
I would add yaw&#x2F;yore&#x2F;your&#x2F;you’re
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singularity20012 months ago
air, are, e&#x27;er, ere, err, heir<p>I guess I need to go back to school because I pronounce some of them quite differently.