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07 Sep 2020, 3:16 am

Fascinating! It's very common in Russian to insert a 'y' sound like that, e.g. in нет/'nyet'. In fact, Russian has two letters for each vowel sound, one for the vowel with the 'y' in front, and one without, e.g. Я/'ya' and А/'a'. This is how the Russian alphabet has 10 vowels in it. Editing to add: нет in handwriting, as apparently in italics, can look like нет.

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07 Sep 2020, 12:38 pm

Loan

Lone

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07 Sep 2020, 12:46 pm

More, less (antonyms)

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09 Sep 2020, 12:28 pm

Nose

Knows

Homophones

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08 Feb 2022, 2:22 pm

Hour

Our

HOMOPHONES

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08 Feb 2022, 2:59 pm

Deep

Profound

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08 Feb 2022, 3:04 pm

(resuming the alphabetical format - my fault earlier for breaking it....

Quash

Squash

Synonyms (more or less), Homophones (almost) :lol:

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08 Feb 2022, 3:07 pm

I had completely forgotten the alphabetical bit, but happily I had a "p" word anyways!

Real

Reel

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08 Feb 2022, 3:13 pm

Seal (creature)

Seal (verb)

Homonyms

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08 Feb 2022, 3:19 pm

Threat

Menace

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08 Feb 2022, 3:23 pm

Use

Utilize

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Also: utilise (British spelling), utilize (US spelling)

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08 Feb 2022, 3:31 pm

I thought spelling variants weren't considered separate words, and as such would not be synonyms or homophones of each other. However, they make a fun new category!

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Vary

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08 Feb 2022, 3:35 pm

slight difference in the pronunciations of those two words in UK, but very subtle!

Wound (noun)

Wound (pp of 'wind')

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Also Wind (noun), Wind (verb)

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08 Feb 2022, 3:42 pm

'x' is very much optional in these sorts of threads, as I understand it...

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08 Feb 2022, 11:10 pm

^ As are "Y" and "Z", but I'll give "X" a go:

Xerox
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