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    Default The same but different?

    Ok, I thought this might be fun to see how many we can list, I have no clue how many there are, but I think these are fun.

    Homonyms:
    dear, deer
    bear, bare
    bail, bale
    pain, pane
    pair, pear
    break, brake

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    You can also add "pare" to the above groupings.

    Ale, ail; tern, turn; pull, pole; sail, sale
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    Here are a few more:

    cereal~serial
    rode~road
    wood~would
    know~no
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    humerous, humerus (a bone)

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    peek,peak
    wright,right
    piece,peace

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    Thought of a few more:

    here~hear
    meet~meat
    knew~new
    threw~through
    their~there
    where~wear
    witch~which
    some~sum
    add~ad
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    bough/bow
    hoes/hose
    ant/aunt
    ale/ail
    flower/flour
    pleas/please
    air/heir
    foul/fowl
    arc/ark
    all/awl
    hay/hey
    heard/herd
    This is fun!

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    ~~ site, sight

    ~~ loot, lute

    ~~ flu, flew, flue

    ~~ so, sew

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    how about

    to, too, and two ?
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    don't forget they're with the there and the their!

    You guys are good!

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    Here are a few more:

    hour~our
    eight~ate
    four~fore
    mail~male


    You really have me thinking today!! LOL!! But I love this!!
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    mat-matte
    grate-great
    gait-gate
    pail-pail
    steal-steel
    peel-peal
    deer-dear
    bain-bane
    toad-toed
    load-lode
    knew-new
    wrote-rote


    That's all I can think of right off the top of my my head.

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    Ok here is a few more.

    knight- night
    pray- prey
    birth- berth
    rap- wrap
    tail- tale

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    so-sew-sow
    see-sea
    seen-scene
    sight-site
    coo-coup
    red-read
    new-knew-gnu
    pea-pee (my kids love this one)
    for-four-fore
    would-wood

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    toe - tow
    need - knead - kneed
    scene - seen

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