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2. List of English homographs - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

3. Homonym - Wikipedia

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   Homonym. In linguistics, homonyms are words which are either homographs —words that have the same spelling (regardless of pronunciation)—or homophones —words that have the same pronunciation (regardless of spelling)—or both. [ 1] Using this definition, the words row (propel with oars), row (a linear arrangement) and row (an argument ...

4. Homophone - Wikipedia

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   Homophone. Venn diagram showing the relationships between homophones (blue circle) and related linguistic concepts. A homophone ( / ˈhɒməfoʊn, ˈhoʊmə -/) is a word that is pronounced the same (to a varying extent) as another word but differs in meaning and sometimes also in spelling. The two words may be spelled the same, for example ...

5. Wikipedia : Lists of common misspellings/Homophones

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   cellar and seller. censor and sensor. cent, scent and sent. cents, scents and sense. cereal and serial. cession and session. chaise and chase. chalk and chock. chance and chants.

6. List of humorous units of measurement - Wikipedia

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   Warhol (fame) This is a unit of fame or hype, derived from the dictum attributed to Andy Warhol that "everyone will be world-famous for fifteen minutes". It represents fifteen minutes of fame. Some multiples are: 1 kilowarhol – famous for 15,000 minutes, or 10.42 days. A sort of metric "nine-day wonder".

7. Common Core - Wikipedia

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   Common Core. The Common Core State Standards Initiative, also known as simply Common Core, was a multi-state educational initiative begun in 2010 with the goal of increasing consistency across state standards, or what K–12 students throughout the United States should know in English language arts and mathematics at the conclusion of each ...

8. Frequency analysis - Wikipedia

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   Frequency analysis is based on the fact that, in any given stretch of written language, certain letters and combinations of letters occur with varying frequencies. Moreover, there is a characteristic distribution of letters that is roughly the same for almost all samples of that language. For instance, given a section of English language, E, T ...

9. Minimal pair - Wikipedia

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   The minimal pair was an essential tool in the discovery process and was found by substitution or commutation tests. [3] As an example for English vowels, the pair "l e t" + "l i t" can be used to demonstrate that the phones [ɛ] (in l e t) and [ɪ] (in l i t) actually represent distinct phonemes /ɛ/ and /ɪ/. An example for English consonants ...