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Homo-somethings
OK so maybe you've heard of homophones, things like Read and Red that are different words but pronounced the same. There are loads of homophones in the English language.
There are also homonyms, words like bat that have multiple unrelated meanings (baseball bat versus dracula). But there is a much smaller, harder to remember class of words called homographs. Words that are spelled the same but pronounced differently, like: read rhymes with Ed past tense of to read read rhymes with bead present tense of to read Homograph can also mean the same as homonym but ignore that definition. Anyway, the other day I was with my brother and somehow the word type came up and I said "I wonder how many other words like that there are" and of course my brother and I absolutely must compete in all things so we proceeded to try to think of such words for the entire day (sort of). We had some long car rided and ski lift rides and whatnot. Anyway, it was really hard! How many can YOU come up with? Try not to be lame like my brother and try "pier- one who pies" and "pier- dock" or other such fake verbs. Arbitrary spaces added so people can try to come up with them themselves before peeking at other answers There. Now, for my responses that I remember currently, though I came up with many more close associate delegate precipitate Divers and old English Divers (a stretch) Subject Project Conduct Produce I forgot most of them. It's hard! -B |
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03-10-2003, 09:14 PM
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My favorite, a triple in terms of pronunication:
route (rowt, rute, ruht) others: bow row slough |
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03-10-2003, 09:27 PM
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03-10-2003, 09:37 PM
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03-11-2003, 09:14 AM
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03-11-2003, 09:18 AM
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I like this one that is pronounced differently (and means something different) when it is capitalized.
Polish Are you sure you have your definitions of homonym, homophone, and homograph correct? http://www.go2net.com/useless/useless/homonym.html Here's a big list of them (whatever you want to call them): http://www.taupecat.com/personal/homophones/ Enjoy! Jen |
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03-11-2003, 09:20 AM
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03-11-2003, 09:33 AM
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Along the subject/project line:
object reject also: tear lead desert supply perfect Isaac Asimov pointed this one out, which is the best one I know: unionized Rob aka Mediancat |
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03-11-2003, 09:39 AM
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It can be fun to do something similar with place names: Palestine vs Palestine, Texas; Cairo, Illinois vs Cairo, Egypt; and Lancaster, PA vs. Lancaster everywhere else.
Pal-uh-STINE vs. PAL-uh-STEEN KAY-ro vs. KEYE-ro LANK-is-ter vs. LAN-cast-er Rob aka Mediancat |
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03-11-2003, 09:48 AM
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