W języku angielskim podobnie jak w innych językach mamy do czynienia ze zjawiskiem Homonimów. Czym są Homonimy (Homonyms)?
Najprościej rzecz ujmując Homonyms to grupa wyrazów, które mają podobną wymowę lecz inne znaczenie lub opcjonalnie podobną pisownię, a mimo tego inne znaczenie. W języku polskim przykładem Homonimu były by następujące pary wyrazów:
morze i może
ciemny - 1. nie jasny 2. głupi
Homonyms w języku angielskim dzielimy na:
- Homographs (wyrazy, które pomimo tej samej pisowni mają różne znaczenie)
- Homophones (wyrazy, które wypowiadamy, czytamy w ten sam sposób jednak mają różne znaczenie)
Lista przykładowych Homophones:
acts/ax
ad/add
ads/adds/adz
aid/aide
ail/ale
air/heir/err
aisle/isle/I'll
all/awl
all ready/already
all together/altogether
allowed/aloud
alter/altar
ant/aunt
arc/ark
assent/ascent
assistance/assistants
ate/eight
aural/oral
away/aweigh
aye/eye
bail/bale
bait/bate
ball/bawl
band/banned
bard/barred
bare/bear
baron/barren
base/bass
bases/basis
bazaar/bizarre
be/bee
beach/beech
beat/beet
beau/bow
bell/belle
berry/bury
billed/build
berth/birth
bite/byte
blew/blue
bloc/block
boar/bore
board/bored
boarder/border
bode/bowed
bolder/boulder
born/borne
bough/bow
bouillon/bullion
boy/buoy
bread/bred
brake/break
brewed/brood
brews/bruise
bridle/bridal
broach/brooch
browse/brows
but/butt
buy/by/bye
cache/cash
callous/callus
cannon/canon
canvas/canvass
capital/capitol
carat/carrot/caret/karat
carol/carrel
cast/caste
cede/seed
ceiling/sealing
cell/sell
cellar/seller
censor/sensor
cent/scent/sent
cents/scents/sense
cereal/serial
cession/session
chance/chants
chased/chaste
cheap/cheep
chews/choose
chic/sheik
chilly/chili
choral/coral
choir/quire
chute/shoot
chord/cord
cite/sight/site
clause/claws
click/clique
close/clothes/cloze
coal/cole
coarse/course
colonel/kernel
complement/compliment
coo/coup
coop/coupe
core/corps
correspondence/correspondents
council/counsel
creak/creek
crews/cruise
cruel/crewel
cue/queue
currant/current
curser/cursor
cymbal/symbol
dam/damn
days/daze
dear/deer
defused/diffused
desert (abandon)/dessert
dew/do/due
die/dye
disburse/disperse
discreet/discrete
doe/dough/do (musical note)
done/dun
draft/draught
dual/duel
earn/urn
ewe/you/yew
eye/I
faint/feint
fair/fare
faun/fawn |
faze/phase
feat/feet
find/fined
fir/fur
flair/flare
flea/flee
flew/flu/flue
flour/flower
flocks/phlox
for/four/fore
foreword/forward
fort/forte
forth/fourth
foul/fowl
friar/fryer
gait/gate
gene/jean
gild/guild
gilt/guilt
gnu/knew/new
gored/gourd
gorilla/guerilla
grate/great
grease/Greece
groan/grown
guessed/guest
hail/hale
hair/hare
hall/haul
halve/have
hangar/hanger
hay/hey
heal/heel/he'll
hear/here
heard/herd
heed/he'd
hertz/hurts
hew/hue/Hugh
hi/high
higher/hire
him/hymn
hoard/horde
hoarse/horse
hole/whole
holey/holy/wholly
hoes/hose
hold/holed
hostel/hostile
hour/our
idle/idol
illicit/elicit
in/inn
insight/incite
instance/instants
intense/intents
its/it's
jam/jamb
colonel/kernel
knap/nap
knead/kneed/need
knight/night
knit/nit
knot/not
know/no
knows/nose
laid/lade
lain/lane
lay/lei
leach/leech
lead/led
leak/leek
lean/lien
leased/least
lee/lea
lessen/lesson
levee/levy
liar/lier/lyre
lichen/liken
lie/lye
lieu/Lou
links/lynx
load/lode
loan/lone
locks/lox
loot/lute
low/lo
made/maid
mail/male
main/mane/Maine
maize/maze
mall/maul
manner/manor
mantel/mantle
marry/merry/Mary
marshal/martial
massed/mast
maybe/may be
meat/meet/mete
medal/metal/mettle/meddle
might/mite
mince/mints
mind/mined
miner/minor
missed/mist
moan/mown
mode/mowed
moose/mousse
morn/mourn
muscle/mussel
mustard/mustered
naval/navel
nay/neigh
none/nun
oar/or/ore
ode/owed
oh/owe
one/won
overdo/overdue
overseas/oversees
pail/pale
pain/pane
pair/pare/pear
palate/palette/pallet
passed/past
patience/patients |
pause/paws
pea/pee
peace/piece
peak/peek/pique
peal/peel
pearl/purl
pedal/peddle/petal
peer/pier
per/purr
pi/pie
plait/plate
plain/plane
pleas/please
plum/plumb
pole/poll
pore/pour
pray/prey
presence/presents
prince/prints
principal/principle
profit/prophet
rack/wrack
rain/reign/rein
raise/rays/raze
rap/wrap
rapped/rapt/wrapped
read/red
read/reed
real/reel
reek/wreak
rest/wrest
retch/wretch
review/revue
right/rite/write
ring/wring
road/rode/rowed
roam/Rome
roe/row
role/roll
root/route
rose/rows
rote/wrote
rough/ruff
rung/wrung
rye/wry
sail/sale
scene/seen
scull/skull
sea/see
seam/seem
seas/sees/seize
serf/surf
sew/so/sow
shear/sheer
shoe/shoo
shone/shown
side/sighed
sighs/size
slay/sleigh
sleight/slight
slew/slue/slough
soar/sore
soared/sword
sole/soul
some/sum
son/sun
staid/stayed
stair/stare
stake/steak
stationary/stationery
steal/steel
step/steppe
stile/style
straight/strait
suite/sweet
surge/serge
tacks/tax
tail/tale
taught/taut
tea/tee
team/teem
tear/tier
tern/turn
their/there/they're
theirs/there's
threw/through
thrown/throne
thyme/time
tic/tick
tide/tied
to/too/two
toad/towed
toe/tow
told/tolled
trussed/trust
vain/vane/vein
vale/veil
vary/very
vial/vile
vice/vise
wade/weighed
wail/whale
waist/waste
wait/weight
waive/wave
want/wont
ware/wear/where
way/weigh/whey
ways/weighs
we/wee
weak/week
we'll/wheel
weather/whether
we'd/weed
we've/weave
wet/whet
which/witch
while/wile
whine/wine
who's/whose
wood/would
yoke/yolk
yore/your/you're
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