A while back (five years ago?), my youngest son’s class collected as many homophones as they could, so my son took a lot of pleasure running through his vocabulary and ours to discover ones that his classmates had not.
However, I was remiss at that time in not including tocsin, an alarm bell, and toxin, a poison generally of plant or animal origin.
You would think I would have been better prepared for that pairing as a reader of suspense novels, but Alistair MacLean novels are more full of klaxons of the alarums.
(The word tocsin brought to the forefront of my mind via this Bookworm Room post.)
