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From: den@festival.ed.ac.uk (David E Newton)
Subject: Re: Homonym triplet in English
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Date: Sat, 12 Nov 1994 23:08:11 GMT
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beb3w@faraday.clas.Virginia.EDU (Brian) writes:
> In article <3a0695$63s@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu>,
> Hung Jung Lu <hlu@wam.umd.edu> wrote:
> >Like (to,too,two). Is there any other such pair in
> >English?
> >
> 
> This isn't really a homonym triplet.  "Two" and "too" are
> homophones, but not "to" -- at least in continuous speech.

Do quadrulplets (?) count then?

Poor, Pour, Paw, Pore...

Interesting to see, though, how many pronunciations different dialects
have... I pronounce these all the same, most Scottish accents use three
different pronunciations, though I have heard people with four distinct
versions.


-- 
David E Newton
Department of Linguistics
University of Edinburgh
den@ling.ed.ac.uk
