war of the words

Funny how English has so many homonyms... just thinking of a few, especially because some people have noticed me devolving into a terribly typo-prone predicator... sorry, fingers often move faster than brain, and yes, I do know the difference between its and it's, and yes, I have reversed them, it's just that, well, if word doesn't pick it up in its heinous red-jagged underline, I usually don't notice it until too late and then it just feels like I am anal-retentive if I go back and fix all of those silly mistakes that nobody but me is reading anyway...


Of course there are your standards:
One...won
Two...too...to...tu-tu
Do...due...doo-doo
He... hee (tee hee)
Tea...tee...
Red...read
Reed...read
Heed...he'd
Led...lead
Leed...lead
Dye...die...day (ok... if your a kiwi)
Hi...high
Hey...hay
Bite...byte
Wait...weight
Whole...hole
Fowl...foul
Their... there...they're
Here... hear
Please... pleas
Cougher...coffer
Your... you're... yore
Vein...vain... vane
Pain...pane...payin'
Weed...we'd
See...sea
Rains...reins...reigns
Use... yous (just a Philly thing)
Fair... fare
Flare...flair
Stair...stare
Where...wear...ware
Bear... bare
Play right... play write...playwright
and variations on these:
Lair... layer
etc.

and other more complex ones which lose their difference with accented speech like:

Vary... very... berry (yes, depends on the origin of the speaker, but this can be really confusing)
a piece... a peace... appease
Scares...scarce
Sin(g)...seen...sin...scene
Sole...soul...sol(d)
Did...deed
Hate...ate...eight
Bin...been...bean...bein(g)


Ok. Too many silly ones to enumerate, but they're countless. English is truly evil in its exclusionary pronunciation... but it is fun to play word games... when one is avoiding one's work.