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In other words...
Paul Jobling works out that we’re after homophones (which sound the same), not homonyms (which sound the same but are spelled the same as well). But you all seem to have got the idea. We have lots of homophone poems already: remember, they have to make it cleanly through your spell-checker to count. An early pleasure was a poem from Bill Carey and North Ayrshire Council:
Eye yam a cisterns anal-list/A programmer all sew aye bee/Eye sit awl day buy me consul/Anne quay inn scrip, ewe sea.
And from Anne Humphreys: When yew work in IT/Things arbour in EweSea/And thyme sloe lea goes bye…
More next week, and keep sending them in. We leave you with a French example. ‘When a former colleague of mine resigned her job to go and start a new life in France, someone wrote in her card: "Pas d’elle yeux Rhoneque nous",’ writes John Harrison, at Anite Housing. If you don’t get it after 30 minutes, ask your mate, not us.
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