Favorite homonyms? The more complex, the better. Anguish Languish OK too...

on, ton, tron, von, don, ron, son, won, gone, jon, con
also, chauffeur is pronounced ”ʃɔˈføːɐ̯”

@ragingloli I don’t understand the international pronunciation guide. I grew up with the English pronunciation guide in my dictionaries and have never been able to figure out the Euro-based multi-language guide.

on, ton, tron, von, don, ron, son, won, gone, jon, con
I don’t believe I am being deliberately obtuse, but, what is this???????

There’s a pair I like, but they’re from two different languages. There’s “potica” which is a Slovenian dessert thing my grandma makes sometimes and ”птица” which means bird in Russian.

You might say they’re just homophones, but I think they’re worth mentioning. Tim Minchin totatlly makes a homophone joke here.

Not to be pedantic, but I think you might have meant “homophone”. It’s one of those square-rectangle things. All homonyms are homophones, but not all homophones are homonyms. Homophones are words that sound the same, whether spelled the same or not. Homonyms, in addition to sounding the same, are spelled the same. Homographs, on the other hand, are words that are spelled the same. Some sound the same, and some do not.

My favorite homophones: right, wright, rite: “I couldn’t make the right Wright write “rite” right”. That’s a fun sentence :P

My favorite homonyms: mean, mean, mean. “The mean mean means mean means mean nothing”. Make sense of that, if you can. ;)

My favorite homographs that are neither homophones nor homonyms: entrance, entrance; read, read (the latter rhyming with “red”).

air\err\heir

baited\bated (I made a joke with this one just this week.)

The bare bear shivered in the cold.

bole\boll\bowl

cede\seed

I would fain feign some feeling than be thought cold.

The djinn was the worse for the gin.

The holy of holies was wholly holey after the moths got at it.

I had lox for lunch at the locks on the lochs.

Just a few of those that I like.

@DominicX than you for the clarification of definition! how can you have read, read and forget lead, lead [that other led, silly]
@marinelife I love this! As I pore over this, I must ask “who’ll pour more gin for that poor poor djinn?”
@fundevogel of course multi-lingual is fun, too. Otherwise we wouldn’t have lovely things like Duchamp’s L.H.O.O.Q. (French pronunciation: èl ache o o qu) or “Elle a chaud au cul.”

or why did the Beatles sing ‘happiness is a warm gun, mama, Bang Bang Shoot Shoot.” with just that wee bit of Cockney lack of aspiration? Could it be an aspiration to refer to a penis instead???

She was only the admiral’s daughter but her naval base was full of discharged seamen.

@flutherother you made my day!

Suite sweet ! !

“Cleave” is my favorite homonym, in part because it is also a contranym. I don’t know of any good jokes that play on the different meanings, though. The word “apparent” can also mean two different things— “obviously so” or “only seeming to be so”—though I take it this is a matter of pragmatics and not a case of homonymy or polysemy. If we’re just looking for homophones, however, I imagine that the homophony of acts/ax must have some comic potential (so long as one is a fan of dark humor).

I found a list of silly homonym jokes here.

Heir, err, ere, air

Intense intents in tents.

My fav homophones? Raise and Raze, which are also antonyms.

@flutherother I must thank you again for “Admiral’s daughter”
It had particular amusement as I worked for the Navel Hysterical Center for years.
I reposted it on FB so my fellow hysterians can enjoy!

@filmfann good one. I like the antonym aspect of it.

@uberbatman Oh and while on the camping expedition, had their hot intents led to sex that was intense in tents?

@SavoirFaire don’t forget Beaver Cleaver. I think that is a true homonym.

@flutherother
That reminds me of the joke about what a submarine and Madeleine McCann.
Both are at the bottom of the ocean, and both are full of seamen.

@anartist Glad you liked it :-)