[yubiox]

I also maintain a list of these. Here are some I don't see there:

greater grater grader

baron barren bearing

your cees, seas, sees, seize is missing cease

grisly grizzly gristly

pedal peddle petal

I also put since with cense, cents, scents, sense

steal steel still

peal peel pill

If you need help: Ewe mite higher too guise two bee yore assistance.

[chrisoverzero]

Where are you from that you consider all of these groups to have the same pronunciation?

[yubiox]

The criteria for my list is that they are taken from real life misspellings, mostly from facebook or youtube comments but also from news media. I have noticed that a lot of people don't bother to consider the proper spelling of words but rather they just spell a word however it sounds to them. So apparently some people pronounce these words the same. Feel free to make your own list of multinyms that fit your own criteria.

[scbrg]

Warning, very broadly generalizing now, but here goes...

> I have noticed that a lot of people don't bother to consider the proper spelling of words but rather they just spell a word however it sounds to them.

This is my "spot the native English speaker" trick. Some native speakers consistently type "your" no matter if they mean "your" or "you're", and either "their" or "there" whenever they should have used one of "their", "there" or "they're".

My experience is that people who have learned English as a second language don't make this particular mistake as much - although we make tons of other mistakes, of course!

My guess is that the cause of this is that native speakers learn the language mostly by listening, long before they learn to read and write. Consequently, to them a word is primarily defined by its pronunciation. Its spelling is a secondary property that's attached years later.

For second language speakers, a word's spelling is usually something they're exposed to immediately when they learn the word - in many cases even before they learn how it's pronounced. To them, the spelling is what primarily defines a word.

It's a bit frustrating. I tend to get confused when "your" is used in place of "you're", and I usually have to reread the sentence once before I decipher the meaning.

[thechao]

Having a nonstandard American dialect is even worse. Texas dialects have a much broader set of larger contractions than coastal and Midwest accents. Autocorrect becomes an active enemy when I'm trying to type "I'd'nt've" or "y'couldn't'v'nt'd".

[scbrg]

> Autocorrect becomes an active enemy when I'm trying to type "I'd'nt've" or "y'couldn't'v'nt'd".

This must be the first time I'm on Autocorrect's side ;->

[ralferoo]

What is the "nt'd" in supposed to be short for?

"y'couldn't'v'nt'd" to me sounds like "you couldn't have unted", which is true as I've never "unted" anything in my life.

I guess "I'd'nt've" means "I don't have", but in British English we'd still write that as "I don' 'av'" (as we'd also drop the t).

[thechao]

I dunno man. I'm just typing what I hear & say. The first is "I do not think I would have done that", more or less. The second is "I could not have done that" but with an agreeing second negative? Like a hill people "I wouldn't do that if I weren't you."

[rahimnathwani]

Perhaps "I'd'nt've" is intended to be "I'dn't've", i.e. "I would not have":

I would -> I'd

would not -> wouldn't

So "I would not" -> "I'dn't"?

[happytoexplain]

Hmm, that seems to stray from the general definition of "multinym" as used in the OP.

If we did stick with the idea of pronunciation, some of the examples from your list could be included if we allow regional accents, e.g. steel-still, peel-pill. However, those accents would also include many other sets not in the OP. barren-bearing particularly stands out, because I can't think of any accent that pushes those together audibly.

[zdunn]

In the United States South, its very common to drop the 'g' at the end of a word ending in '-ing'. barren-bearing can definitely sound the same here.

[SilasX]

In American English, terminal d's and t's usually sound the same unless the speaker takes deliberate care to enunciate them, so that would cover the greater and pedal cases.

[genewitch]

Earth?

[lelanthran]

What part of the world are you from? I ask because this is the first that I've heard that `greater` and `grader` are pronounced the same and now I am curious what country you are in.

For everything in this list, there is at least one word that is not pronounced the same as the other two.

> greater grater grader

> baron barren bearing

> grisly grizzly gristly

> pedal peddle petal

> I also put since with cense, cents, scents, sense

> steal steel still

> peal peel pill

[zdunn]

I'm from South Carolina, USA and I pronounce 'greater' and 'grader' the same. There is a subtle difference and that difference can be more noticeable sometimes, but most of the time I'm saying them the same.

For everything in this list, its incredibly common for these groupings to have the same pronunciation where I live.

[thechao]

Words that are words, backwards, but are not palindromes. My boss is awesome and when I find a new one at 200am and excitedly text him, he congratulates me.

Not, nut, tub, bard, trap, ...

[the_gipsy]

Aaron Earned An Iron Urn

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Esl_wOQDUeE