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wood and would. yack and yak. yoke and yolk. yore, you're and your. you'll and Yule. These pairs become homophones in certain dialects only (mostly in American English) aahed and odd. adieu and ado. ant and aunt.
List of English homographs. Homographs are words with the same spelling but having more than one meaning. Homographs may be pronounced the same ( homophones ), or they may be pronounced differently ( heteronyms, also known as heterophones). Some homographs are nouns or adjectives when the accent is on the first syllable, and verbs when it is on ...
Homophone. A homophone ( / ˈhɒməfoʊn, ˈhoʊmə -/) is a word that is pronounced the same (to a varying extent) as another word but differs in meaning. The two words may be spelled the same, for example rose (flower) and rose (past tense of "rise"), or spelled differently, as in rain, reign, and rein.
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List of forms of word play. This is a list of techniques used in word play . Techniques that involve the phonetic values of words. Engrish. Chinglish. Homonym: words with same sounds and same spellings but with different meanings. Homograph: words with same spellings but with different meanings. Homophone: words with same sounds but with ...
The rhythmic unison in all the parts makes this passage an example of homorhythm. In music, homophony ( / həˈmɒf ( ə) niː, hoʊ -/; [1] [2], Greek: ὁμόφωνος, homóphōnos, from ὁμός, homós, "same" and φωνή, phōnē, "sound, tone") is a texture in which a primary part is supported by one or more additional strands that ...
Homophony (writing) In the theory of writing systems, homophony (from the Greek: ὁμός, homós, "same" and Greek: φωνή, phōnē, "sound") refers to the presence or use of different signs ( phonograms) for the same syllabic value, i.e. the same sound combination may be represented by different signs. [1]
Homograph. Venn diagram showing the relationships between homographs (yellow) and related linguistic concepts. A homograph (from the Greek: ὁμός, homós 'same' and γράφω, gráphō 'write') is a word that shares the same written form as another word but has a different meaning. [1] However, some dictionaries insist that the words must ...