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    From henhanna@gmail.com@21:1/5 to All on Thu Feb 23 10:10:23 2023
    i'd like to know some words (X, Y) in French, German, Spanish...

    such that X and Y are pronounced exactly the same,

    but X and Y share no letter in common (or look very different)


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    which is the opposite of....

    laughter and slaughter --- they look so similar but pronounced so differently.

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  • From Carl G.@21:1/5 to henh...@gmail.com on Thu Feb 23 12:35:07 2023
    On 2/23/2023 10:10 AM, henh...@gmail.com wrote:

    i'd like to know some words (X, Y) in French, German, Spanish...

    such that X and Y are pronounced exactly the same,

    but X and Y share no letter in common (or look very different)


    _______________________

    which is the opposite of....

    laughter and slaughter --- they look so similar but pronounced so differently.


    In "American English", here are some homophone pairs that do not share
    any letters:

    I - eye
    oh - eau (a word adopted from French)
    you - ewe

    (IOU)

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  • From henhanna@gmail.com@21:1/5 to Carl G. on Thu Feb 23 14:36:50 2023
    On Thursday, February 23, 2023 at 12:35:08 PM UTC-8, Carl G. wrote:
    On 2/23/2023 10:10 AM, henh...@gmail.com wrote:

    i'd like to know some words (X, Y) in French, German, Spanish...

    such that X and Y are pronounced exactly the same,

    but X and Y share no letter in common (or look very different)


    _______________________

    which is the opposite of....

    laughter and slaughter --- they look so similar but pronounced so differently.

    In "American English", here are some homophone pairs that do not share
    any letters:

    I - eye
    oh - eau (a word adopted from French)
    you - ewe

    (IOU)

    wwwwwwww.... i get. ( yee eye iii eye eau )


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    Carl G.



    thanks!!!


    last night... i was thinking : SURELY there must be a pair longer than YOU and EWE, and found:

    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ewer
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/youah

    (no letter in common)

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  • From Ammammata@21:1/5 to All on Mon Feb 27 16:07:40 2023
    Carl G. presented the following explanation :
    I - eye

    the most famous is in the movie Young Frankenstein

    Young Frankenstein (1974) - Quotes - IMDb https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072431/quotes/?ref_=tt_trv_qu

    Igor: No, it's pronounced "eye-gor."


    note: this evening I'll see it with friends :-)

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