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Letter Words
by firebus
01/14/2009 - 15:02
Which words for letters of the alphabet are homophones or homonyms of other words, using scrabble rules and excluding self-referential words that are really just the letter (e.g. "f you!")
I've got 10 I can't find homophones for, and a few that might be bogus...input welcome.
- a
- eh? (canadian style - lame!)
- b
- be
- bee
- c
- sea
- see
- d
- X
- e
- X
- f
- X
- g
- gee
- h
- X
- i
- eye
- i
- j
- jay
- k
- X
- l
- ell (a wing of a house - probably self-referential)
- el (the train in Chicago - maybe illegal abbreviation, maybe valid slang?)
- m
- em (lame! possibly self-referential?)
- n
- en (lame! possibly self-referential?)
- o
- oh
- p
- pea
- pee
- q
- queue
- r
- are
- s
- X
- t
- tea
- tee (probably self-referential)
- u
- ewe
- you
- v
- X
- w
- X
- x
- X
- y
- why
- z
- X
Comments
ell –noun 1. an extension
ell
–noun
1. an extension usually at right angles to one end of a building.
2. elbow (def. 5).
Ell
I thought that these were self-referential - A right-angle extension or an elbow both look like the letter 'L', and so we're naming them after the letter (does that count as a synecdoche?)
There's also the 'El', as in the elevated train in Chicago, but I think that would be an illegal abbreviation in scrabble. Maybe it's legal slang though? Can one of our Chicago readers (I'm pretty sure one of my two readers is from Chicago) let us know how this is spelled in the wild?
"tee" totally works
as in golf tee. Or... the even more casual reference to the t-shirt, as in "what an adorably revealing baby-doll tee Britney has inspired my prepubescent daughter to wear"
Tee
I also thought these were self-referential, in that both the golf tee and t-shirt are shaped like the letter 'T'. But I feel more comfortable about them than Ell...
If you include El
Then you just gotta do "eff". It's effing necessary.
Basically, you need those letter books. If there's a use for the ones you're missing, they'll be in there.