To me (from England), all four words you quote are pronounced the same way but even in the UK other regions pronounce words very differently so its hard to please everyone with this kind of quiz.
That was the only one I didn't get, and I pronounce them differently too. But I looked it up: ɡôrd (to rhyme with 'bored') and ɡo͝ord (to rhyme with 'toured') are both valid pronunciations.
I'm an American from the east coast and most people I've met say I have a general American accent without any regional affectations, and the only one of those words I pronounce differently is toured. I pronounce everything else like I would pronounce Ford.
You pronounce seat and Swede the same as each other, and sweet and suite? You pronounce bend and bent the same as each other, and banned and band? You pronounce whores the same as horse and hoarse? I honestly can't think for the life of me what accent would do that, but even if you do, the vast vast majority (not even just Americans, also most other native English speakers) of people don't speak like that.
We far outweigh the people of the US, so stop tailor-making your quizzes to cater to their linguistic style only. Put a disclaimer on your quizzes otherwise that states: you WILL NOT GET THIS if you don't speak/sound like an American.
Most of those 6.650 billion people don't speak English at all and so would not pronounce these words in any way. I got most of these and I am British. But if the quiz is based on any particular accent maybe there should be a disclaimer but most of them work in all accents I have heard.
Or...if you're not American, create your own quiz and fill it with whatever you want. Most of the people who create these quizzes are American but it doesn't have to be that way. Stop complaining and change what you don't like.
I was hopelessly stuck on Piece because I read it as "Pierce" and I was trying everything I could think of to get it until I realized what it actually said. /facepalm
Although I got the correct answer, I do not pronounce "horse" and "hoarse" the same way. For me "horse" rhymes with "arse," and "hoarse" rhymes with "source."
I agree. It's very slight (sleight?), but the "o" in baron can be arguably be pronounced correctly as it is in the word "on," whereas the "e" in barren is pronounced more like "uhn"
For maul, I roll the vowel sound so it sounds more like (m)awl. People in the Washington, DC talk like that and I picked it up. But then, in DC, wall sounds like wawl, so I guess that's still a homophone.
Never mind about all your accents. I use a baren regularly when making woodcuts or linocuts: Merriam-Webster define it as: "a pad of twisted cord covered with paper, cloth, and bamboo leaf with which a printmaker transmits pressure typically by rubbing to paper". It is pronounced the same as barren/baron.
A quiz like this is difficult to be accurate for a world-wide audience. There is no 'right' way of pronouncing these words. But perhaps the quiz should either specify the region from which the accent is derived, or allow other accent specific homophones as correct answers.
Personally, I disagree that "groan" and "grown" are homophones, and think that "fear" is a homophone of "fare". But different countries have different dialects I guess.
me in 2022: remembered suite no trouble but took forever to remember gourds existed, kept trying gaud despite knowing it was incorrect for over a minute
Yes. I've lived most of my life in the southern US, and to me both words rhyme with each other, as well as with words like moored, bored, and ford. How do you pronounce them?
What happened to my English? Four fails. My household was build for that ode inn ceiling the sealing. What a sad song. Had bean a bit gored bout singing in the reign den...
Got them all, but barren/baron definitely took me a little bit to figure out. Probably a regional thing, but those 2 words aren't homophones in the way I pronounce them (ber-ən vs ber-uhn, respectively).
On the subject of ships you might as well say butt and boat are pronounced the same way.
"Nice boat."
"Me or my wife?"
The rest of the world: 6.650 billion people.
We far outweigh the people of the US, so stop tailor-making your quizzes to cater to their linguistic style only. Put a disclaimer on your quizzes otherwise that states: you WILL NOT GET THIS if you don't speak/sound like an American.
Can't wait for the updated quizzes!
They are what Raphael uses!
Gored and gourd are not homophones
Yes, they are.
me in 2022: remembered suite no trouble but took forever to remember gourds existed, kept trying gaud despite knowing it was incorrect for over a minute