Nigh and nye are homophones, and neither is particularly common. I suspect a general audience would be most familiar with nigh. Nigh is considered archaic and literary, but the usage of nye is very limited.
Nigh
- near
- close to
- almost or nearly
Nye
- a brood (or sometimes flock) of pheasants
My tip: “the end is nigh”.
Hannah McCall 
[…] week I published a post on the homophones nigh and nye. A nye is a flock or brood of pheasants, which leads me to this week’s sometimes confused […]
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Nigh on perfect, as always (ouch, that’s a bad joke!)
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The end of my usage of nye is nigh, unless I decide to hunt pheasants.
Is that an accurate (and awkward) statement?
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Yep looks spot on to me!
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Nye is a new one for me. I love all the weird names for groups of specific animals, with a battery of barracudas and a quiver of cobras being two of my favorites. 😉
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And those two are new to me! As usual, I think all those sorts of words are pretty fascinating.
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You might have a fun post series there, you know. 😉
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I think you might be right! 😉
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