Hey ManchuQueue,

You can keep the letters and the contractions - fair enough - but can I have back the following:

caw, core, Cor (blimey)!
fare, fair, fayre fayre - (fayre is alive and kicking - I saw it only today on a sign outside the local primary school!!)
you, u, ewe, eugh/ew!
yous (Ulster), ewes, yews, use,
kneed (past tense of the verb 'to knee'), need, knead
preys, prays, praise
whore, haw, hoar
taut, tort, taught
tees, teas, tease,
paw, pour, pore paw
maw, moor, more maw
road, rode, rowed
saw, sore, soar saw
tees, teas, tease,

All of these are homophones in Standard British English - and in various other varieties. I wouldn't rely too heavily on Dictionary.com - I found it pretty limited - try some others too eg http://dictionary.cambridge.org/define.asp?key=90959&dict=CALD or the MacMillan dictionaries.

And I don't see the problem with plurals / past tenses etc. Are you saying that a plural isn't a word? Why should a plural or past tense be any less a word than a singular or base form? In many cases, these 'inflected' forms are the most frequent and first learnt by children.

right? (rite / write / wright) ?