List 10 English words having different spelling and same pronunciation but different meanings?

Answer 1

I thank Alan Cooper's Homonym site for direct assistance with this answer at a time when I was too tired to simply pound my own brain: Some highlights: 1/ adds=performs addition / ads=multiple advertisements / adze=sharpened axel; 2/ aerie=nest / airy=filled with light breezes; 3/ baize=green felt / bays=multiple indented bodies of water lining a shoreline / beys=multiple officials from Turkey; 4/ bare=the naughty, naked nude / bear=that picnic basket thief, again -or- again: to carry; 5/ can't=cannot's contraction / cant=speak typical of a specific type, or class of people (for example: soda jerks, office workers); 6/ doe=a deer, a female deer / do=the note described this way in the song from The Sound of Music; dough=the basis of breads, cakes, other baked goods; 7/ eunuchs=there is a physical problem here, sometimes they have worked in harems, sometimes sung in churches / Unix=operating system Alan Cooper believes, probably rightly, unable to serve all of humanity; 8/ finish=readying for completion / Finnish=a person from Finland, occasionally named Tom; 9/ told=said / tolled=the bell rang, for whom it is not yet known; 10/ roil=to churn, as if one's guts / royal=monarchical. Okay, there's ten. I hope you are happy. I thought this was going to take me ten minutes but Noooo. I sat here and rewrote all Alan Cooper's definitions. They are still correct. I am tired.