Sound and Sense, 2-32

Time for more instances of the homophone: a word pronounced the same as another but differing in meaning, whether spelled the same way or not, as heir and air.

lase (verb): to emit coherent light (back-formation from laser)

laze (verb): to spend time relaxing

lays (verb): 3^rd person singular of lay—to place or set something down; (noun): plural of lay—a simple narrative poem; melody, song (etc.)

leis (noun): plural of lei—a necklace of flowers that is given to a visitor in Hawaii

leys or leas (noun): plural of lea—grassland, pasture

He like to laze around the leas

Throughout the county’s countryside.

He knew that he would get no leis—

Hawaii, where he’d met his bride,

Was far away. Her eyes could lase

Right through his rank and rotten soul,

And many sad and ancient lays

Have told about the tragic toll

Of inattentive men who lost
Their lovers by neglect. 
Oh, love ignored can have a cost--
A man must be more circumspect.