As no one will deny that homophones are to be made by mauling words, I will begin by a selection of words from Mr. Jones’ dictionary showing what our Southern English is doing with the language.  I shall give in the first column the word with its literary spelling, in the second Mr. Jones’ phonetic representation of it, and in the third column an attempt to represent that sound to the eye of those who cannot read the phonetic script, using such makeshift spellings as may be found in any novel where the pronunciation of the different speakers is differentiated.

Examples from Mr. Jones’ Pronouncing Dictionary.[19]

parsonage. p[a]:s[n.]i[dz] [-sn-] pahs’nidge or
pahsnidge.
picture. pik[ts][e] pictsher.
scriptural. skrip[ts][er]r[er]l scriptshererl or
scriptshrl.
temperature. tempri[ts][e] tempritsher.
interest. intrist intrist.
senator. senit[e] and senniter and
sen[e]tor sennertor.
blossoming. bl[o]s[e]mi[ng] blosserming.
natural. nae[ts]r[er]l natshrerl or
natshrl.
orator. [o]r[e]t[e] orrerter.
rapturous. raep[ts][er]r[e]s raptsherers or
raptshrers.
parasite. paer[e]sait parrersite.
obloquy. [o]bl[e]kwi oblerquy.
syllogise. sil[e][dz]aiz sillergize.
equivocal. ikwiv[e]k[er]l ikwivverk’l.
immaterial. im[e]ti[e]ri[e]l immertierierl.
miniature. mini[ts][e] minnitsher.
extraordinary. ikstr[o]:dnri ikstrordnry.
salute. s[e]lu:t [-lju:-] serloot and
serlute.
solution. s[e]lu:[s][e]n [-lju:-] serloosh’n and
serl[=u]sh’n.
subordinate (adj.). s[e]b[o]:d[n.]it serbord’nit.
sublime. s[e]blaim serblime.

[Footnote 19:  The dictionary allows mitigated variants of some of these words.]

In culling these flowers of speech I was not blind to their great picturesque merits, but they must not be taken for jokes, at least they must not be thought of as conjuring smiles on the faces of Messrs. Jones, Michaelis and Rippmann:  they are deadly products of honest study and method, and serious evidence whereby any one should be convinced that such a standard of English pronunciation is likely to create homophones:  and yet in searching the dictionary I have not found it guilty of many new ones.[20] For examples of homophones due to our ‘standard’ speech one might take first the 20 wh- words (given on page 14) which have lost their aspirate, and with them the 9 wr- words:  next the 36 words in table iv and note, which have lost their trilled R:  and then the 41 words from table vi on page 15; and that would start us with some 100 words, the confusion of which is due to our Southern English pronunciation, since the differentiation of all these words is still preserved in other dialects.  The differentiation of these 100 words would of course liberate their twins, so the total number of gains should be doubled.