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homophone
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homophone
a written letter or combination of letters that represents the same speech sound as another


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8) There is also a relation between the partitive singulars that are homophonous with short illatives and those that correspond to truncated nominatives.
Declension classes in Estonian/[TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] by Blevins, James P. / Linguistica Uralica
In languages whose primary source of "proper" name-formation is drawn from common words ([section] 3 below), the former may remain homophonous with its base word, creating, in Nubling's view, potential obstacles to daily communication.
Names, derivational morphology, and Old English gender by Colman, Fran / Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies
This particular mistake is understandable given that the two versions are homophonous, though I also think it is at least partly due to the Tom Collins effect: appearances to the contrary (and with apologies to Mr.
On eponymy in economics by Cole, Julio H. / Independent Review
 
 
 
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