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What is the word that describes words that sound alike but are spelled differently like "sea and see"?
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Hi, Darrell, good to have you.
'Nother piece of trivia: if the same set of letters can be re-arranged to make two or more different words, the words are anagrams of each other.
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For completeness' sake:
homophone: same sound, different spelling, e.g., right (correct) and rite (ceremony)
homograph: different spelling, same sound, e.g., tear (water from your eye) tear (rip)
homonym: same sound, same spelling, e.g., bear (animal), bear (carry)
Row, of course, is a homophone, homograph, and homonym.
row (propel boat) v. roe (fish eggs)
row (propel boat) v. row (argument)
row (propel boat) v. row (line)
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homograph: different spelling, same sound, e.g., tear (water from your eye) tear (rip)Deliberate mistake time? BTW, I thought that a homophone was a gay chat line. 
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homophone was a gay chat line...
No, surely it's the long distance service used by backspeaking aliens?
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long distance service used by backspeaking aliens?It's no good, but I give up. Maybe it's too late in the day (nearly knocking off time) [which I suppose means something else to many board members - to me it means "home time"] or maybe I'm terminally stupid. what the blazes do you mean, Mav? 
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what the blazes do you mean, Mav?
I thought this was a ref. to the movie ET (extra-terrestrial), with its famous line, "ET, phone home".
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"ET, phone home"And can you just imagine the cross-currents of cultural confusion over those distances  Jackie and I are obviously on a worryingly bizzare tangent, here!
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its famous lineAnd a big hand for J who with 700 posts to her name must be just about able to string a cable to ET
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