Hello Bez and Dodgewiper
Hello Bez,I resolved every test without mistake afterward I copied here . My every test was 100 %. If you don’t understand these homophone please write to the EnglishClub/16 years to Mr. Josef Essberger who wrote these tests and he could answer you why these words are not homophone. I am a learner who resolved these tests, and I would have shared with you. I am very sorry. Only Josef Essberger could answer your objection.
Regards: Kati
Hello Bez,
I 've just read who is Joseph Essberger.
If you don’t know him you can find here.
selfgrowth.com/experts/josef_essberger.html
I think it would be very tranquilizing if you ask these objections from him,and you can get it right for us.
Thanks.
I don’t think I need to do that, Kati.
You don’t need to be sorry Kati. It’s nice of you to share these with us. Thank you and Beees.
Hello Bez.
I am waiting for your answer- difficultly I found the problematic pages.
englishclub.com/esl-games/pr … es-i-7.htm
englishclub.com/esl-games/pr … s-ui-5.htm
You are right I make a typos. I wrote jell instead of gell. That person throws at me the first stone who never made a typos. Much Ado About Nothing.
About the first please to pronounce correctly: sense -scents . I believe that you can pronounce correctly.
The whole test is here:
“Here are some really fun homophone games for you to play:
englishclub.com/esl-games/pr … phones.htm”
Regards.
Hello Bez.
I am waiting for your answer- difficultly I found the problematic pages.
englishclub.com/esl-games/pr … es-i-7.htm
englishclub.com/esl-games/pr … s-ui-5.htm
You are right I make a typos. I wrote jell instead of gell.
That person throws at me the first stone who never made a typos!!! With a little benevolence you would have written you made a typos.
Much Ado About Nothing!
Please to pronounce to US correctly: sense -scents . I believe that you can pronounce correctly.
The whole test is here:
“Here are some really fun homophone games for you to play:
englishclub.com/esl-games/pr … phones.htm” -wrote Josef Essberger.
I’ve made all the tests without mistake. Josef Esselberger can confirm it. What to do I wrote a typos;
I am sure that Josef Esselberger doesn’t recommend to us a bad test.
Regards.
20#permalink
not homophones when the second is pronounced correctly and carefully.
sent-scent
Oxford Advanced Learner’ Dictionary’s pronunciation:
scent
BrE: [ sent ] [sent] AmE: [sent]
sent
BrE: [sent] AmE: [sent]
Unfortunately, the Oxford Dictionary doesn’t makes the difference of the pronunciation of the two words.
Hello Kati,
I didn’t say you have made a typo because I didn’t think you had made a typo. If you did, you are still making it. You did not write ‘jell’ instead of ‘gell’. You wrote ‘gell’. Asa far as I am aware, neither ‘jell’ not ‘gell’ is a word, but I thought it might be AmE, which is why I asked.
Regarding sent and scents, those are not the two words in permalink #20.
Sense and scents are the words you mentioned in that list and they are not the same.
Bez, you get me confused. Why do you tell me that I didn’t do a typos when I can write this word
1.-if I fill in the test
2.-I can’t copy the test which was fill in correctly, because it can’t be copied.
3.-so i can copy it simply only if I keep opened in the same time two threads and I change it (or I open one and I open the other) .As It isn’t easy so very easily happens that I mistake a word. This inhibits me writing other words that Mr. Esselberger wrote there. So I made a typos. I don’t lie for your sake ether.
4. My gold rule: I never lie so I told the truth.
here the words:
jeans/guild/grown/graze/gilt/gel/great/grade/gilled/guilt/groan/grate/jell/grey/edge/greys/genes
NOW I 'VE DONE AGAIN THE TEST. YOUR LETTER GOT ME SO NERVOUS THAT NOW REALLY HAVE MADE A MISTAKE: SUNDAY MORNING MY EVERY TEST - FOR THE FIRST ATTEMPT - WAS 100%. NOW I JUST HAVE ONE MISTAKE, SO IT WAS 87%. YOU CAN ME NEEDLE ME THAT YOU KNOW BETTER THAT I’VE DONE THAN ME. YOU DOUBT MY SINCERITY AND I STAND AT BAY:
I NEVER LIE FOR YOUR SAKE EITHER:
I’ve done it and I try to copy without mistake:
1.jeans -genes
2.guild-gilled
3.grown-groan
4.graze -greys
5.gilt -guilt
6.gel-jell
7.great -grate
8.grade -greyed
So you can say it was not typo, but I copy these words and I copied with mistake how you call it? You copy sth wrongly it is a typos.
On Sunday I copied really wrongly:
The scent-sense or sent
here is the pile of the words:
semen/sense/size/side/sacks/sack/seize/slay/sighs/seas/sleigh/sax/sac/seamen/sighed/scents
I wrote :
When I wrote to you “sent” - I really don’t know how happened It was a subconscious typo. In the test there are: sense and scents that the pronunciation is both of them [sens] because in the scents “t” became mute letter because of the collision.
Please not write me that I “didn’t make a typo” because it means that I lie, I repeat I NEVER LIE TO ANYBODY. This is my principle.
You are the one who said you made a typo, Kati - In post #46:
The ‘t’ doesn’t become mute in ‘scents’ when pronounced with care. You may not be able to hear it as clearly, but it is there.
I haven’t ever indicated that you did the test wrong. I have implied that perhaps the test is not 100% accurate.
Hello Bez,
You really are helpless that your letters so much confused me. Why? Because from a peaceful mood they put me a mess-up mood. I did all the tests without mistake. It would have been very easy if I had copied the ready test . But it was impossible to copy it. I could copy in this way:
muscleminermulemusemallmannermoatmodemanormowedmewsmewlmusselmaulminormote
Your score is 100%.
Well done!
Where you saw these signs[///] I put them there to cut the words from each other.
I knew in advance that I couldn’t copy the good test if I keep opened " the post reply 'and “the ready test-thread”, and I had to click each after the other. I was sure that I couldn’t do it without typos, whereas my every test was 100%. At last I did one typo at the “gel-jell” because sense -scents are not typos. You say the ‘t’ isn’t mute in plural where is a consonant-cluster and Mr. Esselberger says it is mute. And you say if we pronounce with care it isn’t mute. That’s why I asked you that please to pronounce it for your students with care, as you had read out some posts till now.
Regards.
Not homophones.
That “r” in “sore” makes them sound very different.
You must have meant “soar - sore”.
PS:
You must have taken it from here:
englishclub.com/esl-games/pr … es-i-7.htm
This test is therefore contains a mistake, because the words “saw” and “sore” are pronounced differently.
Homophones in British English? thefreedictionary.com/sore I can’t hear any difference at all! Can you?
Good thing that at least the American pronunciation makes things a tiny bit easier for us – everyone can hear the “r” loud and clear there! 
The middle sound is different.
Nope, I can’t either.
My hat goes off to Bev, she must have a darn good ear for this kind of thing.
I guess you have to be a native British speaker to hear the difference.
Hehe.
Hello Bez,
Till now I didn’t hear the pronunciation of scents ( because it is a conjugated form (v) or a declined form (n) at last I found as you hadn’t pronounced now I would show you. As these homophones are in one of the lessons of the EnglishClub I think they are perfect because Josef Essberger is responsible for them.
Regards:
Kati Svaby
Those who say that we have to pronounce the „r” at the end of the word of ‘sore’ –yes - in the American English there is a feeble „r”. These homophones tests were done by Josef Essberger, English teacher and creator of EnglishClub
english-grammar-revolution.c … erger.html
pronunciation ‘r’ We can hear that the ‘r’ is very feebly audible at the end of a word or a syllable even in the American pronunciation.
Lesson 5a - R - English Pronunciation
youtube.com/watch?v=3PJ2jZlVf-M
5b is its continuation.
Even something about the pronunciation of the voice “R”.
British vs. American R
In British English and some southern US dialects, the R sound is dropped when it is in the middle or at the end of a word. In standard American English, no R sounds are dropped. Pronounce all R sounds, whether the R is the first letter, a letter in the middle or the last letter.
speakmethod.com/rsounds.html
Introduction to the R Sound: Watch a Video.
There are several short videos about the place of the ‘R’ how influences the pronunciation of ‘R’. There is a video of the words where the English drops the ‘R’ and the American never.If we can’t hear the ‘R’ the tongue is a position of ‘R’. In this way they finish the word. I 've written this because when we see in the transcript [r] we have to know there are different ways to pronounce it. Sometimes it is scarcely audible or well audible.
Hello.
Non-rhotic accents are said to exclude the sound [r] from the syllable before a consonant or prosodic break. This is commonly (if misleadingly) referred to as “post-vocalic R”.
-What exactly is a vocalic /r/?
-If there is another vowel following the /r/, then it is a pre-vocalic and not affected the same way. Current articulation remediation practice teachs to address the vocalic combinations separately.
Vocalic:
air -(eə®)
ear-(ɪə® )
or-(ɔː® )
car-(kɑː®)
core-(kɔː®)
care-(keə® )
fir-(fɜː® )
fire-(ˈfaɪə®)
fear-(fɪə® )
for-( fə® )
Prevocalic (usually much easier to remediate and use to shape a vocalic r through coarticulation, etc):
red
ride
raid
rude
road
16/27/31/38/40/67
R WORDS
Beginning
run
rice
rat
rag
rake
red
wrist
raisin
rabbit
ribbon
radio
rocket
ranch
rich
race
ring
rain
rug
ran
write
rip
recess
rock
read
Middle
wrap -(ræp)
carrot-( ˈkærət )
bird- (bɜːd )
earring-(ˈɪərɪŋ)
horse- (hɔːs )
iron-( ˈaɪən)
arm-( ɑːm )
giraffe- (dʒəˈrɑːf)
fork -( fɔːk )
shirt -(ʃɜːt )
lizard -( ˈlɪzəd)
fairy -(ˈfeəri )
pirate -(ˈpaɪrət )
scissors -(ˈsɪzəz )
turtle -(ˈtɜːtl )
camera -(ˈkæmərə)
party-(ˈpɑːti )
nurse -(nɜːs )
worm -(wɜːm)
walrus - (ˈwɔːlrəs)
park -(pɑːk)
syrup- ( ˈsɪrəp )
zero -(ˈzɪərəʊ )
corn
barn
Ending
earth -( ɜːθ )
four -fɔː®)
bear -(beə® )
deer -(dɪə®)
ear -(ɪə® )
tear-(ɪə® ) (tɔː® ) (tɔːn )
pear -(peə®)
jar-(dʒɑː® )
alligator- ( ˈælɪɡeɪtə®)
doctor -( ˈdɒktə® )
feather-( ˈfeðə® )
dollar -(ˈdɒlə® )
mother -( ˈmʌðə® )
hammer-( ˈhæmə®)
ladder -(ˈlædə® )
car -(kɑː® )
chair-(tʃeə® )
door -(dɔː®)
tire - (taɪə® )
hair - ( heə® )
beaver-(ˈbiːvə® )
letter -( ˈletə® )
kangaroo- (kæŋɡəˈruː )
dinosaur-(ˈdaɪnəsɔː® )
flower -(ˈflaʊə®)
father- (ˈfɑːðə® )
VOCALIC R WORDS
-AR -ER -AIR
star -( stɑː® )
far -(fɑː® )
tarp
bark
harp
art
cart
start
army
marble
guard
garlic
sparkle
heart
tar
farm
yard
tart
dark
dart
card
yarn
alarm
garbage
market
-Er
cursive-(ˈkɜːsɪv)
mixture-(ˈmɪkstʃə®)
fur-(fɜː®)
skirt-(skɜːt )
first -(fɜːst )
herd -( hɜːd )
turn -(tɜːn )
learn-( lɜːn )
fern-(fɜːn)
whisper
never
spider
curds - (kɜːd )
butter
purse-(pɜːs)
hurt -(hɜːt )
stir -(stɜː®)
dirt -(dɜːt )
germs-(dʒɜːmz)
girl- (ɡɜːl )
turkey- (ˈtɜːki )
together
teacher
concern
dinner
-air
parents
sheriff
where
barefoot-(ˈbeəfʊt)
married
square-( skweə® )
lair
mare-(meə®)
dare-(deə® )
care
stare
share
fair
stereo
marathon -ˈ(mærəθən)
asparagus -(əˈspærəɡəs )
parrot
cherry
dairy -(ˈdeəri )
parachute
arrow
hairy
bury- (ˈberi)
caring
staring
-IRE
choir-(ˈkwaɪə® )
flier
pliers
umpire
dryer
tired
fire
campfire
Ireland
Irene
mire
dire
liar
buyer
hire
wire
empire
briar
admire
vampire- ˈ(væmpaɪə®)
sapphire-(ˈsæfaɪə® )
choirs -(ˈkwaɪə®s)
ironing
fireman
sire
-EAR
fear
steer
mirror
year
hero
jeer
hear
near
pier
hearing
spear
beard
cheer
gear
disappear
pioneer
souvenir
cashier
period
chandelier
cheering
cereal
pyramid
weird
cafeteria
-OR
board
shorts
shore
story
pour
sport
sword
short
fort
popcorn
storm
thorn
organ
morning
horseshoe
tornado
store
floor
more
score
north
port
chore
orange
forest
“post-vocalic R”
Mergers characteristic of non-rhotic accents[edit]
Some phonemic mergers are characteristic of non-rhotic accents. These usually include one item that historically contained an R (lost in the non-rhotic accent), and one that never did so. The section below lists mergers in order of approximately decreasing prevalence.
Panda–pander merger[edit]
In the terminology of Wells (1982), this consists of the merger of the lexical sets commA and lettER. It is found in all or nearly all non-rhotic accents,[3] and is even present in some accents that are in other respects rhotic, such as those of some speakers in Jamaica and the Bahamas.[3]
[show]Homophonous pairs
Father–farther merger[edit]
In Wells’ terminology, this consists of the merger of the lexical sets PALM and START. It is found in the speech of the great majority of non-rhotic speakers, including those of England, Wales, the United States, the Caribbean, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. It may be absent in some non-rhotic speakers in the Bahamas.[3]
[show]Homophonous pairs
Pawn–porn merger[edit]
In Wells’ terminology, this consists of the merger of the lexical sets THOUGHT and NORTH. It is found in the same accents as the father–farther merger described above, but is absent from the Bahamas and Guyana.[3]
[show]Homophonous pairs
Caught–court merger[edit]
In Wells’ terminology, this consists of the merger of the lexical sets THOUGHT and FORCE. It is found in those non-rhotic accents containing the pawn–porn merger that have also undergone the horse–hoarse merger. These include the accents of Southern England, Wales, non-rhotic New York City speakers, Trinidad and the Southern hemisphere. In such accents a three-way merger awe-or-ore/oar results.
[show]Homophonous pairs
Calve–carve merger[edit]
In Wells’ terminology, this consists of the merger of the lexical sets BATH and START. It is found in some non-rhotic accents with broad A in words like “bath”. It is general in southern England (excluding rhotic speakers), Trinidad, the Bahamas, and the Southern hemisphere. It is a possibility for Welsh, Eastern New England, Jamaican, and Guyanese speakers.
[show]Homophonous pairs
Paw–poor merger[edit]
In Wells’ terminology, this consists of the merger of the lexical sets THOUGHT and CURE. It is found in those non-rhotic accents containing the caught–court merger that have also undergone the pour–poor merger. Wells lists it unequivocally only for the accent of Trinidad, but it is an option for non-rhotic speakers in England, Australia and New Zealand. Such speakers have a potential four–way merger taw-tor-tore-tour.[4]
[show]Homophonous pairs
Batted–battered merger[edit]
This merger is present in non-rhotic accents which have undergone the weak-vowel merger. Such accents include Australian, New Zealand, most South African speech, and some non-rhotic English speech.
[show]Homophonous pairs
Dough–door merger[edit]
In Wells’ terminology, this consists of the merger of the lexical sets GOAT and FORCE. It may be found in some southern U.S. non-rhotic speech, some speakers of African American Vernacular English, some speakers in Guyana and some Welsh speech.[3]
[show]Homophonous pairs
Show–sure merger[edit]
In Wells’ terminology, this consists of the merger of the lexical sets GOAT and CURE. It may be present in those speakers who have both the dough–door merger described above, and also the pour–poor merger. These include some southern U.S. non-rhotic speakers, some speakers of African American Vernacular English and some speakers in Guyana.[3]
[show]Homophonous pairs
Often–orphan merger[edit]
In Wells’ terminology, this consists of the merger of the lexical sets CLOTH and NORTH. It may be present in old-fashioned Eastern New England accents,[5] New York City speakers[6] and also in some speakers in Jamaica and Guyana. The merger was also until recently present in the dialects of southern England, including Received Pronunciation—specifically, the phonemic merger of the words often and orphan was a running gag in the Gilbert and Sullivan musical, The Pirates of Penzance.
[show]Homophonous pairs
God–guard merger[edit]
In Wells’ terminology, this consists of the merger of the lexical sets LOT and START. It may be present in non-rhotic accents that have undergone the father–bother merger. These may include some New York accents,[8] some southern U.S. accents,[9] and African American Vernacular English.[10]
[show]Homophonous pairs
Shot–short merger[edit]
In Wells’ terminology, this consists of the merger of the lexical sets LOT and NORTH. It may be present in some Eastern New England accents.[11][12]
[show]Homophonous pairs
Bud–bird merger[edit]
[citation needed] A merger of /ɜː®/ and /ʌ/ occurring for some speakers of Jamaican English making bud and bird homophones as /bʌd/.[13] The conversion of /ɜː/ to [ʌ] or [ə] is also found in places scattered around England and Scotland. Some speakers, mostly rural, in the area from London to Norfolk exhibit this conversion, mainly before voiceless fricatives. This gives pronunciation like first [fʌst] and worse [wʌs]. The word cuss appears to derive from the application of this sound change to the word curse. Similarly, lurve is coined from love.
[show]Homophonous pairs
Oil–earl merger[edit]
In Wells’ terminology, this consists of the merger of the lexical sets CHOICE and NURSE preconsonantally. It was present in older New York accents, but became stigmatized and is sharply recessive in those born since the Second World War.[14] This merger is known for the word soitanly, used often by the Three Stooges comedian Curly Howard as a variant of certainly, in comedy shorts of the 1930s and 1940s.
[show]Homophonous pairs
Other mergers[edit]
In some accents, syllabification may interact with rhoticity, resulting in homophones where non-rhotic accents have centering diphthongs. Possibilities include Korea–career,[15] Shi’a–sheer, and Maia–mire,[16] while skua may be identical with the second syllable of obscure.[17]
In England, rhotic accents are found in the West Country. The prestige form, however, exerts a steady pressure towards non-rhoticity.