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Title: Homophones
Post by: imogen on November 14, 2004, 05:37:59 AM

You decide... (http://www.taupecat.com/personal/homophones/)

The real question is, how many more can we find?  

Title: Homophones
Post by: Brinestone on November 14, 2004, 09:38:44 AM

Number 128 should also have idyll.

Number 189 should have purl, and I'm not sure perl is a word (MW online doesn't have it).

Number 213 should have rapped.

Do musical tones count? If so, there should be me and mi and re and ray. 78 should also have do, and 266 should have ti.

299 should have whined.

Hm. That's all I can think of right now.
 

Title: Homophones
Post by: Jonathon on November 14, 2004, 09:40:54 AM

He needs a lot more notes regarding pronunciation differences. Unless he's using a narrow definition of "standard modern American English."

Title: Homophones
Post by: sarcasticmuppet on November 14, 2004, 01:17:26 PM

I think "perl" is a knitting term.  Knit two, perl two, etc.  It might be "purl" though.

Title: Homophones
Post by: rivka on November 14, 2004, 01:20:09 PM

"Purl" is knitting; "PERL" is a programming language.

Title: Homophones
Post by: saxon75 on November 14, 2004, 02:58:01 PM

From the Free Online Dictionary of Computing (http://foldoc.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/foldoc.cgi?query=perl&action=Search):

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The spelling "Perl" is preferred over the older "PERL" (even though some explain the language's name as originating in the acronym for "Practical Extraction and Report Language").

Title: Homophones
Post by: fugu13 on November 14, 2004, 05:00:40 PM

http://www.perldoc.com/perl5.8.0/pod/perlf...rl--and--Perl-- (http://www.perldoc.com/perl5.8.0/pod/perlfaq1.html#What's-the-difference-between--perl--and--Perl--)

Actually, it was never PERL, and it is now Perl if one talks about the language , or perl the implementation (preferentially).

Title: Homophones
Post by: rivka on November 14, 2004, 05:17:52 PM

*defers to compugeeks*

Perl it is. :)

Title: Homophones
Post by: Annie Subjunctive on December 02, 2004, 01:42:32 AM

I actually emailed him a suggestion.  I'm pretty sure that, since he claims to be going off of American pronunciation, medal/meddle should also include metal and mettle.  Same with pedal/peddle - it should also have petal.  And pettle, which I don't think is a word but really should be.

Bedding/betting?
Budding/butting?
Adam/atom? :P

Title: Homophones
Post by: Porter on December 02, 2004, 07:50:04 AM

Up and atom!

Title: Homophones
Post by: eslaine on December 02, 2004, 09:06:57 AM

Adam Ant (not the cartoon character Atom Ant).