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yubiox | 11 months ago

I also maintain a list of these. Here are some I don't see there:

greater grater grader

baron barren bearing

your cees, seas, sees, seize is missing cease

grisly grizzly gristly

pedal peddle petal

I also put since with cense, cents, scents, sense

steal steel still

peal peel pill

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chrisoverzero|11 months ago

Where are you from that you consider all of these groups to have the same pronunciation?

yubiox|11 months ago

The criteria for my list is that they are taken from real life misspellings, mostly from facebook or youtube comments but also from news media. I have noticed that a lot of people don't bother to consider the proper spelling of words but rather they just spell a word however it sounds to them. So apparently some people pronounce these words the same. Feel free to make your own list of multinyms that fit your own criteria.

SilasX|11 months ago

In American English, terminal d's and t's usually sound the same unless the speaker takes deliberate care to enunciate them, so that would cover the greater and pedal cases.

lelanthran|11 months ago

What part of the world are you from? I ask because this is the first that I've heard that `greater` and `grader` are pronounced the same and now I am curious what country you are in.

For everything in this list, there is at least one word that is not pronounced the same as the other two.

> greater grater grader

> baron barren bearing

> grisly grizzly gristly

> pedal peddle petal

> I also put since with cense, cents, scents, sense

> steal steel still

> peal peel pill

zdunn|11 months ago

I'm from South Carolina, USA and I pronounce 'greater' and 'grader' the same. There is a subtle difference and that difference can be more noticeable sometimes, but most of the time I'm saying them the same.

For everything in this list, its incredibly common for these groupings to have the same pronunciation where I live.

thechao|11 months ago

Words that are words, backwards, but are not palindromes. My boss is awesome and when I find a new one at 200am and excitedly text him, he congratulates me.

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