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Homophones #3

Each of these words has two homophones. Guess what they are.
A homophone is a word that sounds the same but is spelled differently
For this quiz, spelling must be exact
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First submittedFebruary 18, 2013
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Word
Homophones
Vain
Vane
Vein
Prays
Praise
Preys
By
Buy
Bye
Sent
Cent
Scent
You
Ewe
Yew
For
Fore
Four
Poor
Pore
Pour
Errs
Airs
Heirs
Word
Homophones
Idle
Idol
Idyll
Meat
Meet
Mete
Pair
Pare
Pear
Peak
Peek
Pique
Raise
Rays
Raze
Road
Rode
Rowed
Rain
Reign
Rein
Freeze
Frees
Frieze
beka1
+13
Level 22
Mar 20, 2013
what about peer for pair? and errs is not really pronounced the same as airs and heirs.
FirefromtheEast
+28
Level 46
Jun 30, 2013
Homophone quizzes are always tough because it's impossible to take all regional accents into account. :/
BlendedCow
+10
Level 44
Jun 30, 2013
Ir can be pronounced such. To err is human.
pensta
+8
Level 65
Jul 1, 2013
That is quit errksome, surely the only interpretation should be the English one.

I take a deep breath of err and calm down.

Baltimorean
+3
Level 67
Nov 8, 2015
My understanding (I'm not a professional linguist, so I only know what I read on the Internet) is that the pronunciation of "errs" to rhyme with "airs" is a recent development, a back formation from the word "error," in which the first syllable rhymes with "air." Take a look at http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/26042/pronunciation-of-err for some literary evidence as to how "err" was pronounced by Britons in the 19th Century (with counterarguments too). It also appears that the "airs" pronunciation is an American thing--if I had to guess, I'd say it started with sports announcers, who are always changing the way that words are pronounced.
IsleAuHaulte
+1
Level 88
Aug 29, 2018
Howerrd Cossell?
Ctinggi
+1
Level 52
Nov 11, 2021
to air is only human
vdbjdj
+1
Level 42
Jan 27, 2022
In Canada, The United Kingdom, (Probably also NZ and Australia, also probably Ireland), Heirs is pronounced with the H.

It sounds like "Hairs".

Borriz
+3
Level 58
Jan 31, 2022
In Australia we pronounce heir like air, you don't hear the 'h'. When we say the letter 'h' you hear haytch though haha

In an Aussie accent idyll doesn't really sound like idle though, so that one tripped me up

rwwt
+2
Level 77
Mar 7, 2022
Absolutely not pronounced that way in the UK.
ddddan
+1
Level 79
Mar 28, 2022
Nor canada - are you thinking about herbs / "erbs"?
kalbahamut
+6
Level 83
May 5, 2013
good one. Shows just what a complete mess English spelling is. Webster did well clearning it up a little bit, but he really ought to have gone much further than he did. and... what is a Frieze? I'm going to have to look that one up...
buck1017
+12
Level 77
Sep 11, 2013
Frieze is an architectural term. It makes up the center part of an entablature, which is the 3-part band around the roof line of old buildings
chattypenguin
+2
Level 34
May 9, 2014
No it isn't, it preserves etymological and semantic information.
kalbahamut
+4
Level 83
Nov 8, 2015
A better place for which would be in the footnotes of the OED.
Findlay
+4
Level 83
Nov 27, 2021
I'm with Kal on this one. It's one reason I find the stance of many of my fellow Australia pedants (and I see it among Brits too) on American spelling to be nonsensical. Almost uniformly they also ridicule Americans for refusing to adopt metric, and yet they cling to arcane spellings despite the clear logical argument for making English spelling more simple and consistent. If I have a criticism of American spelling, it would be that it doesn't go far enough, as Kal notes. Some are accent issues - changing 'mum' (which is how it is pronounced in most of the world) to 'mom' only makes sense with an American accent, for example. But does 'colour' need a 'u'? It's still not phonetic without the 'u', but is at least simpler.
Lemondance
+2
Level 66
Nov 30, 2021
Y'all need to watch some jan Misali
AVB
+4
Level 70
May 11, 2018
Ah, but if we are to spell phonetically, which pronunciation to use? The American, RP English and Scottish spellings of "water" would be quite different - and that's before we get into local dialects.
TWM03
+2
Level 67
Sep 16, 2018
I could invent a completely phonetic spelling system for my accent, but I don't think anyone here would agree with it.
Dimby
+2
Level 74
Nov 30, 2021
We don't want another Esperanto.
GKS
+1
Level 47
Apr 6, 2020
I prefer the spelling of words without Webster's bizarre changes. In a language where people only just began to learn grammar once more after it was regarded as unimportant, the last thing we needed was for the spelling to become regional and split into many different forms. Perhaps this is just me being fussy, but I prefer being articulate in speeches, writing pieces and in conversation, and I find that Webster takes that aspect away from this language in several aspects. (Seriously, 'wimmen'? I mean, come on, why did anyone listen to this guy?)
tcookiem
+2
Level 56
Nov 27, 2021
What's wrong with wimmen? It makes much more sense and is easier to remember than women. I think that should be prioritised in spelling systems over "being articulate in speeches, writing pieces and in conversation" or whatever.
Dimby
+1
Level 74
Nov 30, 2021
The word used to be wiffmen, so wimmin isn't that much of a stretch. However, it seems more important to me that the link between words based on spelling is more important than phonetic spelling. Noticing patterns about prefixes and suffixes helps people to learn, understand, and remember English words. "Otomaton" for automaton and "Otoemoebeel" for automobile makes it harder to see the link between the words. And what do you do about loan words? I would have to assume that it would be annoying for someone fluent in Spanish to have to spell it "bureetoe".
NekroNeko
+20
Level 26
Jun 30, 2013
Errs in English (UK) doesn't sound like Airs or Heirs, it's closer to erm in sound without the m on the end. That said, the Yorkshire accent would sound right with that pronunciation.
Trackles13
+14
Level 58
Jun 30, 2013
I'm Australian, we pronounce "err" to rhyme with cur not care.
TheWombat
+4
Level 74
Feb 25, 2014
We also pronounce Fraser to rhyme with Kerr and cur, but that's another story....
Findlay
+2
Level 83
Sep 4, 2016
I see what you did there, Wombat.
nettybet
+2
Level 75
Jun 30, 2013
I'm English (from the South) and I've only heard errs pronounced 'airs'! But as people have already said regional accents vary so much.
hirsutebodkin
+1
Level 58
Sep 29, 2021
scousers would pronounce it airs as well
hpqu1zz3r
+1
Level 44
Feb 5, 2022
I'm from south west England and say errs to rhyme with curs not airs
HappyBunnyCat
+1
Level 58
Jan 18, 2014
Same here in Boston!
Anzi
+1
Level 70
Aug 26, 2018
I tried hers to rhyme with errs as the Yorkshire pronunciation would drop the H :D
samiamco
+1
Level 69
Oct 18, 2016
I have your basic US Middle Atlantic (and middle-aged – ha!) non-accent accent, and have lived in Boston, Philadelphia, Washington DC, Florida, and Colotado, with a lot of time spent in many other areas all over the US and Eastern/Atlantic Canada, and I too hear "errs" as just a bit different from "airs" or "heirs".
ruftytufty
+2
Level 77
Aug 26, 2018
the only thing I could think of to sound like errs was erse - but that's pretty archaic. Errs certainly doesn't sound like airs/heirs in the UK.
Jerry928
+8
Level 75
Aug 26, 2018
In New Zealand, heirs and airs are honomyms, but are pronounced differently from errs, which is pronounced more like "urze". And we pronounce idle with a long "i" ("eye-dull"), but idyll with a short "i", rhyming with "riddle".
Newroadgirl
+2
Level 68
Sep 28, 2021
And, Jerry928, you Kiwis are bang on.
Kahikatea
+4
Level 76
Jun 19, 2019
I'm from New Zealand, and I didn't get that one either, because it never occurred to me that anyone might pronounce 'errs' like 'airs'. Maybe the quiz-setter speaks an obscure dialect only known in one suburb of Bradford, or something like that.
AlexThirkell
+1
Level 73
Dec 31, 2020
Yeah that one threw me off, I tried hers (in cockney), ughs, even hearse...
kiwiquizzer
+1
Level 68
Dec 1, 2021
Same. I tried hers, hearse, but really, there is no word in kiwi-spoken English that sounds like errs. I was stumped! I figured it was pronounced differently somewhere else.
kalbahamut
+1
Level 83
Jun 30, 2013
got 100% this time.
Calce1987
+4
Level 31
Jun 30, 2013
I have to agree that Errs is pronounced as Hers without the H and also Paw is a nhomophone of poor so this could have been accepted as well.#

Although to err is human, errs is plural and changes the pronounciation.

IsleAuHaulte
+1
Level 88
Aug 29, 2018
Plural?
Salz
+10
Level 55
Jun 30, 2013
Errs is not pronounced the same as "Airs" or "Heirs". Also, can you accept for "Paw" for being synonymous with Poor?
098
+1
Level 31
Oct 2, 2013
I agree
nycbarb
+2
Level 44
Jun 30, 2013
There are also different pronunciations for "poor". Some say "pore" to rhyme with "ore"; others say "poor" emphasizing the double "o" sound, like poooooor.
098
+1
Level 31
Oct 2, 2013
My maths teacher says it like poo-er, dead quick like. I think that's kind of what you were saying?
mal
+2
Level 59
Jul 1, 2013
Good quiz. Accents really do change things, I agree that Errs is pronounced differently than heirs and airs. Also I've always pronounced Idle with the I sounding like eye whereas idyll I've always started like Id (as in Ego, Id etc). Maybe I've been saying it wrong all these years.

Missed a few easy ones though as once I got one spelling in my head it was surprisingly difficult to think of a different one!

Symmetrik
+2
Level 57
Mar 14, 2014
I disagree with the Errs-Heirs-Airs (not just you but everyone). Err is a derivation of Error. Err is the verb whereas Error is a noun. An Error is a mistake, to Err is to make a mistake. Even with accents I find it hard to believe that anyone pronounces it "ur-ur". Error is pronounced "Air-or", or "Air-er", as Err is a direct derivation of that, it should thus be pronounced "Air". Meaning Errs would be pronounced as "Airs".
roleybob
+2
Level 76
Jan 22, 2016
I agree with you that err is pronounced the same as the beginning of error but your analogy is flawed. There are plenty of words which are derived from other words but change the way they are pronounced. If only I could think of an example right now...
Jerry928
+3
Level 75
Aug 26, 2018
I can: error and err.
CtG526
+2
Level 50
Jul 1, 2013
Why is "race" not accepted?
AlexThirkell
+1
Level 73
Dec 31, 2020
It has an 's' sound not a 'z' sound.
cranbeckh
+1
Level 68
Jul 1, 2013
This is a good quiz--tougher than you would think.
Eric
+2
Level 36
Jul 2, 2013
To us Californians, the word pairs in this quiz were certainly all homophones.
buck1017
+1
Level 77
Sep 11, 2013
Same for Illinoisians
Salonegal
+1
Level 24
Jul 4, 2013
Why is "frizz" not accepted?
IceBucket
+3
Level 54
Sep 7, 2013
Because it's not a homophone of any of the words in the quiz.
IceBucket
+4
Level 54
Sep 7, 2013
Idyll and idol are not homophones. O_o
Irreality
+1
Level 71
Nov 18, 2016
Completely agree.
Quizmaster
+3
Level ∞
Mar 17, 2018
They are perfect homophones in the standard American accent. Go to Google translate, type "Idol idyll", and hit play. There is no difference.
Ssssss
+1
Level 70
Jun 23, 2020
Well that must be a mistake online or a mistaken pronunciation in American English. There are obviously variations in the way we say certain words, but idyll and idol are not among them. Id-ill and Eye-dol/dul.
chattypenguin
+4
Level 34
May 9, 2014
Words which are different in my accent:

Poor vs Pore/Pour

Err vs Air/Heir

Idyll vs Idol/Idle

ander217
+1
Level 76
Jun 30, 2014
Enjoyed this one. Tougher than I thought it would be. Missed yew, heirs, idyll, and pique.
Jerry928
+3
Level 75
Aug 1, 2014
Paw is a homophone (maybe this is to do with British/Canadian/Australian/NZ accents, where it is a more obvious homophone)
Bubblecat
+5
Level 70
May 19, 2015
I've always pronounced "idyll" as "id-ill", not "eye-dul" :\
Malbaby
+1
Level 71
Oct 4, 2015
So have I, unfortunately accents make Homophones quite difficult to please everybody. As an English born man, having lived and worked in 8 different English speaking (mostly) countries I often mix up my accents and pronunciation and change my accent depending who I'm speaking to.
sumguy
+1
Level 83
Oct 28, 2015
Errs is not pronounced like airs and heirs. And in what part of the world do people pronounce poor the same as pore and pour?
ander217
+1
Level 76
Nov 8, 2015
In the mid-south of the US for one.
SpankyMcFabulous
+1
Level 45
Aug 30, 2018
New Zealand, Australia
Sifhraven
+1
Level 66
Dec 17, 2018
how else could you pronounce it?
ChaosLord
+1
Level 73
Nov 27, 2021
Several regional accents in the UK pronounce it "poo-er". I know in my more standard accent, they're pronounced the same, but then it wouldn't be valid because "paw" is also a homophone.
RobNobody
+1
Level 74
Nov 27, 2021
Definitely all pronounced the same in the northeastern/mid-Atlantic US, where I grew up and live.
Tino
+1
Level 67
Nov 9, 2015
Fun quiz - pretty much gives you the answers but still hard. (I should have done better!)
dasubergeek
+1
Level 71
Nov 9, 2015
If you're from New York, errs doesn't sound like airs. It must be a Midwest thing. When I moved to the Midwest from New Jersey, I realized that people couldn't distinguish between the names Aaron and Erin, which are completely, utterly different pronunciations to me.
samiamco
+1
Level 69
Oct 18, 2016
I think both examples you just cited, dasubergeek, are true not just in the Phila/NJ/NY Northeast, but also all the way down the Middle Atlantic to DC as well as up and throughout New England. (But if we had to tackle "draw"/"drawer" in Rhode Island/Mass. or "water"/"wooder" in Philly, things would get REALLY convoluted!)
Salz
+5
Level 55
Nov 10, 2015
What about "paw" as a homphone of pour, pore and poor?
sumguy
+1
Level 83
Aug 26, 2018
Only if you're British. Pronouncing "aw" as "or" instead of "ah" creates the amusing situation that you pronounce "flaw" like "floor". I heard a song on the radio where the guy kept singing "All of my floors and all of your floors", and had no idea what he was talking about it. It got really weird when he said "you have always worn your floors upon your sleeve".
kitsims
+1
Level 80
Nov 27, 2021
You've got it the wrong way round. No-one pronounces "aw" as "or" in words like flaw, it's that we Brits pronounce the "or" in words like floor the same as the "aw" in flaw - i.e., non-rhotically.

And I've never heard anyone, of any nationality, pronounce "aw" like "ah".

almightyjosh
+2
Level 74
Nov 10, 2015
I have never ever hear "errs" pronounced close to that way - to ryhme with airs? Naaah.

I have lived in Australia and the UK and been to the US a number of times. Simply can't believe it's true.

Also, paw for poor - totally yes.

And idyll? I was dubious, but I looked that up and now I learnt something.

sumguy
+1
Level 83
Aug 26, 2018
Paw for poor: not in the North American pronounciation.
brandybuck96
+3
Level 82
Nov 12, 2015
Those people who are complaining - just pronounce the whole quiz in an American accent. I've got used to that now.
sumguy
+1
Level 83
Aug 26, 2018
Yes. Except for "poor" being a homophone for "pore" and "pour". Apparently that's a southern US thing. In the north, it's pronounced with a long U, like "room". Poo-er.
jennraven
+2
Level 67
Nov 27, 2021
Midwest here - it's a homophone
RobNobody
+2
Level 74
Nov 27, 2021
I grew up in New Jersey and now live in Maryland, and I've always pronounced them all the same way.
zuzu
+2
Level 63
Sep 10, 2016
Hue for "you" ??...
samiamco
+2
Level 69
Oct 18, 2016
"Hue" definitely has an aspirated "h" at the beginning.
islabonita
+1
Level 45
Nov 18, 2016
ROAD AND RHODE
sumguy
+2
Level 83
Aug 26, 2018
Except that "rhode" isn't a word by itself. It's a proper noun when followed by "Island". Pluralize it and it becomes another proper noun -- the island of Rhodes -- or the first half of "Rhodes Scholar".
ScottDozenNo
+1
Level 57
Nov 30, 2017
This is probably my favorite category :-)
AVB
+2
Level 70
May 11, 2018
I appreciate that accents vary, but, as someone from the South of England, "Errs" is not a homophone of "Airs" and "Heirs" (it rhymes with "Hers") and "Idyll" is not a homophone of "Idle" and "Idol" - the initial "I" being pronounced as it "it".
kogatora
+1
Level 91
Jan 30, 2019
and the yll being like a short il not ol (although I can see how some accents may vary that)
RealDad12
+1
Level 66
Jun 28, 2018
Errs should be removed given other countries such as Australia don't pronounce it "airs".
Lanes
+1
Level 70
Aug 7, 2018
Nice one. Tough, but got 100% on the first try. Frieze was the hardest. Definitely do not understand the Paw comments or that errs is not pronounced like airs/heirs. How do you say it? Urs?

(I live in Oklahoma)

ChaosLord
+1
Level 73
Nov 27, 2021
Yup, that is indeed the correct way to say it.
RobNobody
+2
Level 74
Nov 27, 2021
There's no such thing as a "correct" dialect. Just accept that different accents pronounce certain words differently, and that none is really more "correct" than another.
martay
+2
Level 69
Aug 26, 2018
There's a great study on American dialects that offers some cool maps on not only pronunciation but also regional vocabulary. You can participate or just check out their results: http://www.tekstlab.uio.no/cambridge_survey/. And for you non-Americans, now you can sate your curiosity as to what locale in 'Mericuh your particular dialect most closely matches (if you get Boston then chances are you have a severe speech impediment and should seek specialist therapy).
JWC1202
+2
Level 73
Dec 26, 2018
'Ey, bustah, that's really wicked roode of ya tah mock mah Bahston accent! I oughta clobbah ya one!
ChaosLord
+2
Level 73
Aug 26, 2018
Maybe do one for American English and one for... you know, English.
kiwiquizzer
+1
Level 68
Aug 26, 2018
Got all easy. Except for errs. Man I was stumped! Nothing rhymes with errs!! I was so surprised to see the answer! Kiwi accent for you.
RealDad12
+1
Level 66
Aug 26, 2018
Errs is pronounced as spelled in Australia. Not fair. Otherwise, I scored 100%. >:-(
MDW
+1
Level 44
Aug 26, 2018
You shouldn't use words that don't sound alike in different accents. Its not difficult to find other homophones that aren't complete red herrings to people who don't pronounce words exactly the same way you do.
jkabq
+1
Level 60
Aug 27, 2018
gee. or perhaps you could go and make those quizzes and allow the quizmaster to make his quizzes as he likes.
candiru
+2
Level 25
Aug 27, 2018
If you can't think of how other people might pronounce a word, that's your lack of understanding of English, and you don't deserve to get that one right.
MDW
+1
Level 44
Aug 29, 2018
I think a quiz 'master' has a responsibility to avoid words in a homophone quiz that aren't homophones to most people. Especially when alternatives are easy to find.
RobNobody
+3
Level 74
Nov 27, 2021
IS there any such thing as a homophone that is pronounced exactly the same in ALL dialects of English?
Highlander29
+1
Level 73
Aug 27, 2018
Just look the word up. Errs is a soft e whereas to make errs rhyme with airs it would have to be a hard e. Thus airs is not a homophone of errs.
RobNobody
+3
Level 74
Nov 27, 2021
I just looked it up in Merriam-Webster, and the first pronunciation given for both "err" and "air" is ˈer.
Stef2
+1
Level 57
Aug 27, 2018
Raise=Race
kalbahamut
+2
Level 83
Aug 27, 2018
There is a difference between voiced and unvoiced consonants
PrinceEric
+3
Level 56
Aug 29, 2018
I wish I had some popcorn for all the debates in this thread. Are people just now learning that there are different pronunciations for different areas? I figured, with TV and all...
musicguy
+1
Level 64
Aug 29, 2018
What about Ears?
SpankyMcFabulous
+3
Level 45
Aug 30, 2018
You need to specify the accent you're using, so many things don't belong or are missing based on various accents.
CoolerShaker
+1
Level 55
Sep 1, 2018
idyll is not pronounced the same as idol!
Sifhraven
+1
Level 66
Dec 17, 2018
I got frieze and pique and only missed six, got neither of the errs, not sure how to pronounce it ( not from an english speaking country, so pretty proud :) cause this is quite tough)

Shouldnt "hue" be an acceptable answer for a homopone for "you" (did try jew not yew :/ but it is more pronounced djew anyway I thought, so hue would be a better fit)

roleybob
+1
Level 76
Dec 27, 2018
The H in hue is pronounced - it is a homophone of Hugh and they both sound like 'HYOO'

You and yew are both pronounced as 'YOO'

tazaja
+1
Level 55
Jun 19, 2019
'errs' is not a homophone for 'airs'. they are not pronounced the same
JackintheBox
+1
Level 77
Jun 19, 2019
I pronounce 'idyll' as /ɪdɪl/, not /ʌɪd(ə)l/.
Ears
+1
Level 88
Jul 7, 2019
Jerry from NZ (above) said:

In New Zealand, heirs and airs are honomyms, but are pronounced differently from errs, which is pronounced more like "urze". And we pronounce idle with a long "i" ("eye-dull"), but idyll with a short "i", rhyming with "riddle".

I'm from the UK and agree totally in all respects. Re 'errs' I'm from the Midlands, lived in the south west and south east and now in the north and have never heard errs pronounced in any way than urze. (Mind you, I haven't lived in Yorkshire :-) .)

EcceHomo
+1
Level 76
Jul 13, 2020
Totally agree with this, erm, Ears? Did I pronounce that correctly? I rhymed it with errs.
cookiethecow
+1
Level 51
Nov 11, 2020
"Errs"/"Airs" and "Idle"/"Idyll" only work in an American accent.
Lilylee
+1
Level 72
Nov 13, 2020
Mane and Main sound awfully lot like Vain.
burntofferings4all
+1
Level 54
Aug 1, 2021
That would be a rhyme,
Bryfle
+3
Level 66
May 10, 2021
Where's 'Paw'?
Jango
+2
Level 63
Jun 12, 2021
I can't type phonetic chars on my phone, but idyll is a short I, idol is a dipthong. Errs does not rhyme with airs in any accent I've ever heard & I've lived in lots of places.

There is a further homophone for by: bi is now a fully accepted term for a person who is bisexual

burntofferings4all
+2
Level 54
Aug 1, 2021
As far as your Errs and airs concern, try English.

"Bi" alone is not a word, it is a part of many different words.

I don't accept it, therefore it is not "fully accepted".

Alexquiz17
+1
Level 77
Aug 14, 2021
While airs and heirs are homophones, neither is a homophone of errs. End of story.

The emphasis in the word idyll is on the second syllable, meaning it is not a homophone of idle or idol (which are homophones). Clear?

Love these qizzes

FatSpartanJediLlama
+1
Level 64
Nov 22, 2021
Don't know how I came up with Frieze but ok
FatSpartanJediLlama
+1
Level 64
Nov 22, 2021
Maybe cuz of Frieza from DBZ even though I've barely watched it
FatSpartanJediLlama
+1
Level 64
Nov 22, 2021
Missed idyll, pique, and rowed, the bottom 3
Rozzi
+1
Level 59
Nov 27, 2021
Fun quiz thanks and I do realise that we're all supposed to speak with American accents, however couldn't quizzes just avoid words that really don't work in other parts of the world. Idles is not a homophone of idylls (id-ills) in Britain. And how about rase?
JamuelSohnson
+2
Level 70
Nov 27, 2021
Paw for poor as well
QuizApe
+2
Level 65
Nov 27, 2021
I am not a native English speaker and I just realised that all this time I have been pronouncing many of these words incorrectly.
RobNobody
+3
Level 74
Nov 27, 2021
I will never get over how so many people here insist that their particular dialect of English is the One and Only Correct Pronunciation and that all other dialects are apparently horrible abominations.
daraconn
+1
Level 58
Nov 27, 2021
The non-homophones for me (from Ireland) are:

- poor (not a homophone with pore or pour). In my accent "poor" has the vowel of "good" while "pore" has the vowel of "broad".

- idyll (pronounced completely differently to idol/idle - this is not an accent issue)

- errs (not a homophone with airs/heirs)

BlackLab
+1
Level 62
Nov 29, 2021
Rhode is also a homophone for road, rowed and rode
TheRatmeister
+1
Level 83
Jan 26, 2022
Even as an American, Err doesn't sound the same as air, it has the same sound as the 'ur' in urn.
Quizmaster
+2
Level ∞
Jan 26, 2022
To err is human. To forgive divine.
BlackLab
+1
Level 62
Mar 3, 2022
to err is human to really foul things up takes a computer
tee111
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Level 69
Jun 9, 2022
Not to this American. It's a big country.
Bengus
+1
Level 55
Jul 5, 2022
Errs is pronounced neither the same as airs or heirs. And idyll is not pronounced like idle or idol.
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