h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Affect & Effect
Bear & Bare
Court & Caught
Draw & Drawer
Eight & Ate
Grate & Great
Past & Passed
Root & Route
Sort & Sought
Toe & Tow

site & sight (especially on the internet)

How about

aisle - clear path between seats in a church or hall, eg
isle - small island

brake - to slow or stop
break - to become seperate pieces

buy - to pay money for
'bye - a contraction of goodbye

here - in this place
hear - perceive sound with the ears

peal - ring, as in a bell
peel - (n) outer covering, skin (especially fruit); (v) to remove skin

pie - pastry crust with filling
pi - (greek letter used to represent) the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter

piece - part of something
peace - freedom from conflict

ring - a circlet of metal worn on the finger or toe
wring - to sqeeze by twisting firmly

rite - ceremonial act or proceedure
write - make words (or other marks) appear
right - something which is due to anyone by just claim (and 28 other definitions in my dictionary)

roll - a list of members of a group, or to turn over and over
role - a part which is played, eg by an actor in a movie

sale - the act of selling, or to offer various goods at a reduced price
sail - drive a boat by wind power

see - catch sight of something
sea - a large body of water

stationary - not moving
stationery - writing materials

straight - not having a bend or curve
strait - a narrow body of water between two land masses

time - the passage of existence, measured in seconds, minutes, hours etc
thyme - a culinery herb

waist - a slimming at the middle of the trunk or body
waste - to use up or spend without getting true worth or benefit

Once I got going, it was hard to stop!

Hope this helps

I forgot one!

raise - to lift up
raze - to flatten to the ground (building, eg)

And another one...

sees - present tense of the act of third person seeing
seas - plural of sea (see above)
seize - to grasp or take hold of something

Thanks Celt!

No worries
Happy to help.

Still going...

stair - something to climb
stare - a look that endures

veil - a scarf worn over the face
vale - a poetic valley

wreak - to bring about (as in havoc)
reek - to stink bad. Really bad.

What a great game for traffic lights!

Cheers!

Caught this one in a Guide entry last week:

Yoke - frame that joins a pair of oxen together
Yolk - yellow stuff at the center of an egg

Also, to amplify one of the pairs above into a triple:

Cite - to refer to an authority
Site - a place
Sight - vision

Bought
Brought
Not entirely sure of difference myself! will let someone else look it up in dictionary

Well,

buy and bought go together - today I will buy the paper, yeasterday I bought the paper.

bring and brought go together - today I will bring my lunch, yesterday I brought my lunch.

Oh, and there is no such word as "brung". It should be "brought".

Well,

buy and bought go together - today I will buy the paper, yeasterday I bought the paper.

bring and brought go together - today I will bring my lunch, yesterday I brought my lunch.

Oh, and there is no such word as "brung". It should be "brought".

Wow you are all good at this...

I've 'thunk' and I've 'thunk' and all I can come up with is

wheeze - noise mde when one is having trouble breathing
wees - third person present tense of the verb to wee

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ooooh no here is one


Rain - when the sky lets loose
Reign - to rule over a kingdom


As for double meanings for the same spelling

rank - something which smells BAAAD
rank - to put things in an order

tied - past tense of the verb to tie, as in he tied a knot
tied - more than one person acheiving an objective at the same time, they tied for second place

(definitions are mine, prob better ones in a dictionary)

Um.... let me see, making these up as I go...

Goa - place in India (do Proper nouns count?)
goer - an idea that is going to work

OK that is my lot

lot - like a plot of land used for parking
lot - much of
Back another day...
Ciao