Happy Friday!
It’s time for more wordplay and interesting tidbits from Tyrannosaurus Lex: The Marvelous Book of Palindromes, Anagrams, & Other Delightful & Outrageous Wordplay, by Rod L. Evans, Ph.D. Today’s topic is homophones (words that are pronounced the same but that differ in meaning). These aren’t your garden variety homophones like their, there, and they’re. These are more obscure and will hopefully provide you with some new Scrabble possibilities!
Here is a selection from Chapter 37:
| answer | anser (genus of birds containing geese) |
| cops | copse (thicket or growth of small trees) |
| cross | crosse (stick used in game of lacrosse) |
| duke | dook (an incline at a mine for hauling) |
| file | phial (small container of liquids, especially in medicine) |
| furs | furze (spiny evergreen shrub common throughout Europe) |
| glare | glair (a liquid made from egg white) |
| groin | groyne (barrier against the tide to prevent beach erosion) |
| impressed | imprest (a loan or advance of money) |
| lewd | leud (feudal tenant in the ancient Frankish kingdoms) |
| moolah | mullah (learned teacher of the laws and dogmas of Islam) |
| police | pelisse (furred long cloak with arm openings) |
| random | randem (three horses harnessed, one behind the other, to a vehicle) |
| send | scend (to heave upward under the influence of a natural force, as a ship on a wave) |
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