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Inflammable and flammable both mean “combustible.” Inflammable is the older by about 200 years. Flammable now has certain technical uses, particularly as a warning on vehicles carrying combustible materials, because of a belief that some might interpret the intensive prefix in- of inflammable as a negative prefix and thus think the word means “noncombustible.” Inflammable is the word more usually used in nontechnical and figurative contexts: The speaker ignited the inflammable emotions of the crowd. Because the stress is on a different syllable (a-CHEIVE-ment vs. ARCH-ive). The syllibalic structure is just as important as the spelling. Because of word origin. Boo is an Onomatopoeia, or a word that is spelled for the way it sounds. Blood comes from the Old English word blót, but since modern English does not use accutes, it was transcribed into “bl-oo-d. English is consistent in its inconsistecies. What do you expect, it is a polyglot bastard child of Old English, Norman French, Greek, and Latin!

Same pronunciation, same meaning but different spelling? Okay, what is the word and what language is it taken from?

the words that you are looking for are called homophones.

here’s the definition of homophones – One of two or more words, that are pronounced the same but differ in meaning, origin, and sometimes spelling.

here are some that i know:

night / knight

leek / leak

peek / peak

scull / skull

bean / been

main / mane

tale / tail

pail / pail

for a detailed list of 441 homophones, please refer to the link below:

http://www.bifroest.demon.co.uk/misc/homophones-list.html

Not sure that there is any that have the same meaning.

I think you’re probably talking about words like :

Bow and bough

Yore and your

Rain, reign and rein

etc., etc.

**EDIT**

jesteele gets the prize here – nice one !

jail and gaol

advise

advice

bread and bred.

there thier and they’re