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A homophone is a word that is pronounced the same as another word but differs in meaning. The words may be spelled the same, such as rose (flower) and rose (past tense of "rise"), or differently, such as carat, caret, and carrot, or your and you're. A short example of a homophone are the words "know" and "no". Notice that they are pronounced the same, but both have different meanings. A homophone is a specific type of homonym. The term may also be used to apply to units shorter than words, such as letters or group of letters which are pronounced the same as another letter or group of letters. Homophony may refer to: Homophony − from Greek homófonos, where ομοιο – the same, and φωνή – a sound, that literally means same-sounding. Homophony (music) − in music is a term opposite to polyphony. ...
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The carat is a unit of mass used for gems, and equals 200 milligrams or 3. ...
A caret in the Arial font Caret is the name for the symbol ^ in ASCII and some other character sets. ...
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Homophones are often used to create puns and to deceive the reader (as in crossword puzzles) or to suggest multiple meanings. The last usage is common in poetry and creative literature. An example of this is seen in Dylan Thomas' radio play Under Milk Wood: "The shops in mourning" where mourning can be heard as mourning or morning. Another vivid example is Thomas Hood's poem "Faithless Sally Brown": For other uses, see Pun (disambiguation). ...
A crossword is a word puzzle that normally takes the form of a square grid of black and white squares. ...
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Dylan Thomas Dylan Marlais Thomas (October 27, 1914 – November 9, 1953) was a Welsh poet and writer. ...
Thomas Hood Thomas Hood (May 23, 1799 - May 3, 1845) was a British humorist and poet. ...
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Homophones in the context of word games are also known as "oronyms". This term was coined by Gyles Brandreth and first published in his book The Joy of Lex (1980), and it was used in the BBC programme Never Mind the Full Stops, which also featured Brandreth as a guest. A word game or word puzzle can be of several different types: // [edit] Letter arrangement games The goal is to form words out of given letters. ...
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Examples of "oronyms" (which may only be true homophones in certain dialects of English) include
- 'mint spy' vs 'mince pie';
- 'ice cream' vs. 'I scream'
- 'stuffy nose' vs. 'stuff he knows';
- 'euthanasia' vs. 'youth in Asia';
- 'situation' vs. 'sit, you Asian';
- 'i.c.q.' vs. 'I seek you'.
- 'depend' vs. 'deep end'
- 'Grace Gale' vs. 'Gray Scale'
Two oronyms appear in "Ana's Song (Open Fire)" by Silverchair. While they initially sound like mondegreens, reading the lyrics will reveal that this is not the case. The first line of the song, "Please die Ana, for as long as you're here we're not", also sounds very much like "Please Diana, ...", which confuses people into believing that "Ana" is a person, when really it is just a nickname for anorexia. The next verse is "And Ana wrecks your life, like an anorexia life", which is another oronym that proves ana's real meaning. ICQ is an instant messaging computer program, owned by Time Warners AOL subsidiary. ...
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A mondegreen is the mishearing (usually accidental) of a phrase as a homophone or near-homophone in such a way that it acquires a new meaning. ...
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American comedian Jeff Foxworthy frequently uses oronyms in his Appalachian routine. Notable examples include, "Initiate: My wife ate two sandwiches, initiate (and then she ate) a bag o' tater chips." and "Mayonnaise: Mayonnaise (Man, there is) a lot of people here tonight." Comedian Jeff Foxworthy accepts a new jacket from 3rd Infantry Division Commander Army Maj. ...
Mad Gab is a team oronym solving game. Mad Gab is a game created by Mattel in which you have at least two teams and 2 to 12 players. ...
Use in psychological research
Pseudo-Homophones Pseudo-homophones are non-words that are phonetically identical to a word. Pseudo-homophone pairs are pairs of phonetically identical letter strings where one string is a word and the other is a non-word. For example, groan/grone and crane/crain are pseudo-homophone pairs, whereas plane/plain is a homophone pair since both letter strings are recognised words, both types of pairs are used in lexical decision tasks to investigate word recognition. Phonetic (pho-NET-ic) is a nationwide voicemail-to-text messaging service available for most digital mobile phones in which a subscriber is provided a custom voice mailbox for the purpose of receiving all incoming voice messages as actual transcribed text for reading via short messaging (also known as SMS...
A lexical decision task is a type of experiment in psycholinguistics. ...
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Dreams Homophones also appear sometimes in dreams; see dream pun. A dream pun is a pun that occurs in a dream[1]. They are an important concept in dream interpretation. ...
See also For a complete list of homophones refer to the following Wiktionary appendices. |
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