A too-long list of words which require further research:
homonym list • notes on sources, etc.
If you have any thoughts on these, please let me know.
- pool / poule -- Is "poule" a young chicken? A prostitute? A movement in a quadrille? And how does one pronounce it?
- acher/acre
- adjutant / agitant
- abrade / abraid (to awake/rouse)
- afear / affeer
- ai / aye (etc.)
- baritone / barytone
- basin / bason
- barish / bearish
- beating / beeting (improving)
- eyre (w/air)
- ait (small island; w/ate)
- orle w/all
- alligation (w/allegation) -- <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alligation>
- alms/arms????
- amende (w/amend) -- <http://www.wordnik.com/words/amende>
- anker (w/ancher) -- http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/anker
- apprize (w/apprise)
- asperate(w/aspirate) http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/asperate
- avale (w/avail)
- bord/bourd (to go with board/bored)
- bolter/boulter (looks good, but check OED for pronunciation)
- bot/botte (check OED)
- bolter/boulter
- bream/breme (archaic?)
- cabana / kabana (type of sausage) — this looks like a good one, but I couldn't find pronunciation of "kabana"
- called / cauld (fish weir?)
- car / carr (not sure of "carr" pronunciation)
- caries/carries/karris
- cartel / kartel (the latter seems to be Dutch)
- cat / kat (this would be a good one, but need to look more into pronunciation of "kat" -- may be closer to "cot"))
- center / scantier (I like "scantier," i.e. one who scents, but I'm not sure it's a real word) check OED
- chair / chare (may be too rare)
- chert / chirt (may be too rare) http://www.wordnik.com/words/chirt
- chins / chinse (I like this one, but check OED for pronunciation of "chinse")
- cingle / single -- I included this, but check pron. of "cingle" anyway
- circle / surcle -- check pron. of latter
- cleat / cleit -- check OED for latter. Seems to be common enough, but couldn't find def. or pron.
- cleave / cleve
- coaled -- included, but find sentence.
- cobb -- some kind of stagecoach?
- coom/coombe comb/combe -- very obscure
- cos / coss (kos) -- also obscure
- crater / krater (latter may just be alternative spelling but only in one direction)
- decide / discide
- devil / devvel
- dhooti / duty (not sure about "dhooti" -- "dhoti" seems more common)
- douc(s) / duke(s) -- need to find (in OED?) "dour" pronunciation. I like this one.
- erg / ergh (does "ergh" really exist?)
- fair / phare (couldn't find "phare" -- beacon tower / lighthouse)
- Farci / farcy pron.
- fear/feer/fere
- feared/fyrd
- femerell / femoral I like this one but need to check pron.
- fern / firn (another word for névé) I love this one but am not sure if pronunciation is the same
- fibrin/fibrine I doubt this one works but it's worth an OED lookup
- filander (a kind of kangaroo) / philander
- filiform / phylliform good one, but need pronunciation
- forewarn/forworn
- gabel/gable
- garret/garrot/garrote
- gean (with gene/jean) pron
- geri (with gerry/jerry)
- glassie / glassy — need further research about whether "glassie" (a glass marble) is unique enough, or is it just another way to spell "glassy"
- gnash / nash (latter too obscure?)
- gnomic / nomic (pron)
- goo / gue (pron)
- grim / grimme (small type of antelope) pron
- haras / harras (pron of former)
- hearse/herse (pron)
- hoarsen/whoreson (pron)
- hocks/hox
- human / humin
- ideograph/idiograph
- lear / leer
- leaver (a merchant ship that leaves the main convoy?) / lever
- lucerne (another word for "alfalfa") / lusern -- need pronunciation
- mows / moze (def)
- napoo/napu (def, pron)
- pinkie / pinky (homemade wine? maybe just alternate spellings)
- pipi / pippy-- "Pipi," a kind of mollusk, may very well be a homonym of "pee-pee" rather than "pippy."
- poo / pooh (I’d love to have "poo" in the list, but I don’t know -- they may just be alternate spellings)
- pot / pott (a size of writing paper, the watermark of which may have been a pot)
- pryse (Scottish; a horn blast at a hunt???)
- scug / skug (slang for "squirrel"???)
- slane (w/slain)
- tapet / tappet / tappit
- ctene / teen / teene (former two already in, but check "ctene" and "teene"
- rit / writ