Votar y Botar: A Homophones game!
Homophones: We have many in English. They are the words that*** sound*****the same but are spelled differently and have different meanings. Some examples would be whether/weather or deer/dear. I thought it would be fascinating to play a Spanish homophone game and see who could garner the most votes with the most creative pair. The rules are simple: One pair of words per answer but you can list as many pairs as you want. If you come up with three seperate homophone pairs, list them in three different answers...that way it will be easy for everyone to vote for the most creative answer. My contribution is based on the* SpanishDict word of the day,*"Botar".
I guess I have to add the advice not to look up the words on the internet, being that you are not learning anything much that way.... and what's the fun in not coming up with it yourself?
Botar y Votar
Have fun!
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Oh for crying out loud...I just went through the posts again and wouldn't you know it, Fidalgo has submitted my entry, too! 
And just when I thought I was being creative 
Well, technically, he did submit his first 
I should have looked closer at all the entries before posting (guess I got caught up in the fun!) So, in its place, I'm submitting:
tasa / taza
rate / cup
Okay, I'm exhausted....but in a good way! 
Are we considering all of the words with diacritical accents as different spellings?
el, él
Fidalgo, please remember, all those words with a ce or se have a different sound in Spain, they are not homophones.
Woo...I can't believe I came up with one, but here goes:
haya / aya
beech (tree) / governess
The first one I thought of was siento/ciento...but Fidalgo had already submitted it! 
This was fun!
Just to make it clear:
A homonym is a word that is spelt the same and sounds the same as another, but is different in meaning or origin, e.g. the noun 'bear' and the verb 'bear'.
What Rena mentioned above, is a homophone, which is a word that sounds the same as another but is different in spelling, meaning, or origin. E.g. 'knew' and 'new' are English homophones.
There are also homographs - words spelt the same as another, but different in pronunciation, meaning, origin or grammar, e.g. the noun 'record' is a homograph of the verb 'record'.
Source: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Pata => Leg, female duck
Carpa => Carp, tent
Starting over from my entry, now that I have used the correct word "Homophones", lets come up with some great original ideas that are not garnered off the internet! The idea is to make it a challenge and use our brains!
serrar y cerrar
sierra =saw, =mountain
ciento y siento
ceca y seca
volado y bolado
aya y haya
nava y naba
hecho y echo
