Homophones: Drought, Draft etc

[Tom]

Hi

Would you say that the following words are homophones?

(a) drought
(b) draft
(c) draught
(d) daft

Tom

[Alan]

No
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[Yankee]

Hi Tom

Your question worries me since I think you must know what the definition of homophone is. One and won are homophones, for example. They are pronounced the same way even though they're spelled differently, and they have different meanings.

Why did you include daft when there isn't an 'r' in it as there are in the other words?

Your question leads me to believe that you might be having some trouble with spoken English. How have you been learning and practicing pronunciation and speaking?

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[Alan]

I think Tom is questioning the title of the test.

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[Tom]

Many, many thanks to everybody.

Yes, you are right, Mr. Townend ...I just wanted to say that if the students are asked to pick the correct homophone from the choices given, then, perhaps, all the words should be homophones.

What do you think? Do we agree?

Tom

[Yankee]

Hi Tom

So sorry. My senses had temporarily deserted me when I answered your other homophones thread (the first edit attempt): dessert and desert are homphones when desert is a verb.

Were there any other sentences that you thought didn't contain any homophones as options?

Yes, you could also make a test in which the only choices given are homophones.

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