I Say Tomato, You Say Tomato: Word Puzzle Solutions

The puzzle columnist earlier presented two word puzzles, which are repeated below with their solutions.

1: Pronounced the same, spelt differently.

A homonym is a word that shares the same pronunciation or spelling with another word of different meaning, such as the letter “a” and its homonym “eh.”

Notably, “eh” does not contain the letter it sounds like — there is no “a” in “eh.”

Readers were asked to find five more English letters whose homonyms do not contain the letter they sound like.

One of those words may be obscure unless one knows Caribbean geography or enjoys crossword puzzles, the columnist noted.

Those five letters, excluding “a,” spell a common word, and the puzzle asked what that word is.

The columnist added that while writing the puzzle, they thought of a sixth letter: X equals “Ecks,” the plural of Eck (a Scottish diminutive of Alex), but proper names do not count under Scrabble rules.

2: Spelt the same, pronounced differently.

This puzzle involves homonyms: words spelled identically but pronounced differently based on meaning.

Each pair of meanings below describes such a word, listed in alphabetical order.

(Second option) (Switch back and forth)

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The columnist signed off with a playful phrase: “I hope you enjoyed these. Eyal bee Bach inn too weak’s.”

Sources: 1 Gerry Reynolds, 2 Ryan McCormack.

The columnist has been setting a puzzle on alternate Mondays since 2015 and welcomes suggestions for great puzzles via email.