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Question for ya, Bingley. Given the roots of the three terms you share (homo, phone, graph, and nym), I wonder if a homophone must have different spelling and if a homograph must have a different spelling.
If homophone means "same sound," then words that sound identical are homophones regardless of whether the spellings are identical or not. Similarly, words that are spelled the same regardless of whether the pronunciations are different are homographs.
Am I being too inclusive?
Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted Does + Does: Is there a -nym for it? WhitmanO'Neill 06/29/01 10:14 PM Re: Does + Does: Is there a -nym for it? Anonymous 06/29/01 10:56 PM Re: Does + Does: Is there a -nym for it? WhitmanO'Neill 06/29/01 11:28 PM Re: Does + Does: Is there a -nym for it? Rusty 07/01/01 02:11 AM Re: Does + Does: Is there a -nym for it? tsuwm 06/30/01 02:31 AM Re: New -Nyms? WhitmanO'Neill 06/30/01 11:52 AM Re: New -Nyms? Jackie 06/30/01 12:25 PM Re: Wide-nym wow 06/30/01 02:34 PM Re: New --Nyms (cont'd) WhitmanO'Neill 06/30/01 10:59 PM Re: Does + Does: Is there a -nym for it? Bingley 07/02/01 03:40 AM Re: Does + Does: Is there a -nym for it? Brandon 07/02/01 12:11 PM Re: Does + Does: Is there a -nym for it? Bingley 07/03/01 04:19 AM Re: Does + Does: Is there a -nym for it? Alex Williams 07/03/01 11:38 PM Re: Does + Does: Is there a -nym for it? Anonymous 07/04/01 12:40 AM Re: Does + Does: Is there a -nym for it? nancyk 07/05/01 12:30 AM
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