Wednesday, March 04, 2009

Short Words That Rhyme With "Fail", and Their Homonyms

I have no idea why this suddenly popped into my head, but there are SO many.

ail
ale
bail
bale
dale
gale
gaol (is it pronounced the same as jail?)
hail
hale
jail
kale
mail
male
nail
pail
pale
quail
rail
sail
sale
tail
tale
vale
veil
whale
Yale (it's not Scrabble, so proper nouns count, says I)

Did I miss any?

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

How about trail, grail?

Homonyms seem a little like cheating, maybe they should be grouped?

Benjamin Random said...

wail