Society for Pure English, Tract 02 - On English Homophones by Robert Seymour Bridges;Society for Pure English
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pyx, picks.
please, pleas. pause, paws, pores. pride, pried [_bis_]. prize, pries. praise, prays, preys. rouse, rows. rasher (_bacon_), rasher (fr. _rash_). raid, rayed. red, read (_p. of to read_). rex, wrecks, recks. road, rode, rowed. rote, wrote. rove (_v. of rover_), rove (fr. _reeve_). rose, rows (_var._), roes (_var._), rose (_v._). ruse, rues (fr. _rue_). side, sighed. size, sighs. scene, seen. seize, seas, sees. sold, soled (_both inflected_). sword, soared. sort, sought. span (_length_), span (fr. _spin_). spoke (_of wheel_), spoke (fr. _speak_). stole (_s._), stole (fr. _steal_). stove (_s._), stove (fr. _stave_). tide, tied. tax, tacks (_various_). tact, tacked. |
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