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#1 2005-11-09 16:10:11
- Jai Ganesh
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Word puzzle
Can you think of a pair of words which are both anagrams and homophones?
(Examples of Homophones :- Ice and eyes, Seam and seem, Read and Reed etc.
Examples of Anagrams:- Talent and Latent, Mate and Meat, Slate and Stale etc.)
For an example
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#2 2005-11-09 17:22:55
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Re: Word puzzle
Deserts and dessert? No, not exactly the same, though. 
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#3 2005-11-09 20:24:39
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Re: Word puzzle
I don't believe ice and eyes is a homophone. Maybe it's just the way I say it.
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#4 2005-11-09 20:41:35
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Re: Word puzzle
neon and none
where and we're
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#5 2005-11-09 21:48:25
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Re: Word puzzle
jU, good try, but neon and none aren't homophones, and where and we're aren't anagrams.
I agree. Ice and eyes aren't true homophones. Ice has a short vowel sound and eyes has a long one.
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#6 2005-11-10 04:30:33
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Re: Word puzzle
Ice also has a sharp c (sss) and eyes has a soft s (zzz).
justlooking's is very close if you take 'deserts' to means 'leaves', as opposed to 'multiple dry places'.
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#7 2005-11-10 06:53:30
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Re: Word puzzle
Break and Brake?
School is practice for the future. Practice makes perfect. But - nobody's perfect, so why practice?
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#8 2005-11-10 07:00:42
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Re: Word puzzle
That works if I understand the rules.
You've inspired me... steak and stake!
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It wanted to be normal.
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#9 2005-11-10 16:17:57
- Jai Ganesh
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Re: Word puzzle
Rora is right!
I had that in my mind, but I don't know if there are any more
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#10 2005-11-10 20:36:51
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Re: Word puzzle
Hmm... pare and pear? Tear and tare? Ware and wear? Seer and sere?
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#11 2005-11-11 20:36:10
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Re: Word puzzle
no I mean neon and none are Anagrams
and we're and where are homophones
but a new one mean and name are Anagrams
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#12 2005-11-11 20:39:04
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Re: Word puzzle
Well, you are correct jU, but ganesh is looking for words which are both anagrams and homophones. We have some examples in the previous posts.
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#13 2005-11-11 20:45:10
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Re: Word puzzle
oh
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#14 2005-11-11 21:27:31
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Re: Word puzzle
Keep trying, you might get one before me. I have tried and failed 
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#15 2005-11-12 08:33:46
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Re: Word puzzle
thanks rod!
I do like you
(but not in that way )
*giggles*
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