What word is a homophone of you and yew?
Phonological history of English consonant clusters in Modern English. In some dialects of English the cluster is reduced to , leading to pronunciations like for "huge" and for "human", and making "hew" a homophone of "ewe" or "you". This is sometimes considered a type of glide cluster reduction, but it is much less widespread than wh-reduction, and is generally stigmatized where it is found. Aside from accents with general H-dropping, in the United States this reduction is mostly found in accents of Philadelphia and New York City; it also occurs in Cork accents of Irish English. In other dialects of English "hew" and "yew" remain distinct;
Homophone Homophone A homophone is a word that is pronounced the same (to varying extent) as another word but differs in meaning. A homophone may also differ in spelling. The two words may be spelled the same, such as "rose" (flower) and "rose" (past tense of "rise"), or differently, such as "carat", "caret", and "carrot", or "to", "two", and "too". The term "homophone" may also apply to units longer or shorter than words, such as phrases, letters, or groups of letters which are pronounced the same as another phrase, letter, or group of letters. Any unit with this property is said