Talk:Minimal pair

Have eliminated some from the examples, such as lose – loose because they are not strictly minimal pairs. I s'pose there must be a formal term for 'em but using "false friends" as a reference for my students, I call them "nasty neighbours" because they are sufficiently similar to cause problems. I'd like to include them here in this article if there is no specific term for them to have their own page. Feedback, anyone? --Technopat 12:11, 1 June 2009 (UTC)
 * I'm not familiar with any technical term for this. I must confess that when I first looked at them my immediate reaction was that they were thought they were minimal pairs, but now that I play about with them I see that they are not. I find quite a few hits on the pair on the net where they are often described as "commonly confused words". There are others which my students seem to have problems with such as "war" and "world".  Perhaps we should have a "commonly confused words" article?  On the other hand I'd have no objections to your adding such a section here, either as "nasty neighbours" or "commonly confused".--Bob M 07:43, 2 June 2009 (UTC)


 * Yep! So if we're not sure sometimes, imagine our poor long-suffering students... On the other hand, could you design a template/tag that we can stick on articles dealing with pronunciation - homophones/linking, etc - to the effect that we are all well aware that the examples given on these pages are basically standard BrE and may need to be modified by each teacher according to circs. And that the idea is just that Teflpedia gives ideas, and is not trying to lay down a "correct" pronunciation... Cheers! --Technopat 10:35, 2 June 2009 (UTC)
 * I done knocked something up. Was that what you were thinking of?--Bob M 16:23, 2 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Nice one! Maybe we could add something - without making ot too lengthy - about "as Teflpedia has to use just one model of English for simplicity, each teacher can adapt it to suits his/her circs." That way we might just get away with not offending too many other teahcers out there :) Cheers! --Technopat 17:54, 2 June 2009 (UTC)
 * I dun put some moar wurdz en et. I cun change it ugain two.--Bob M 19:02, 2 June 2009 (UTC)