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A homophone is a word that is pronounced the same, even though it has different spellings and meanings.
Example:
There, their. To, too, two. Sea, see. Bee, be.
Homophones are one of the biggest traps in phonetic learning. Spelling phonetically doesn't take homophones into account. That's why there/their is one of the most common mis-spellings in the language.
'Phone' is the Latin root of many of our words. Homo (man) phone (sound) is a single word for the sound of human speech.
I don't know how advanced this is, but I learned it in high school, back in 1961, in high school English.
so sad. I too learned of homophones in HS. Obviously no one bothered to LOOK IT UP before throwing a temper tantrum.
America's decline started way before Obama got into office. And "W" brought things to a head with two expensive, pointless wars, and allowed the finance sector to run the economy into the ground.
I think homophones are one of the reasons why English is probably the hardest, if not one of the hardest, Indo-European language to learn. English is also plagued with silent letters, one letter that alters the meaning and pronunciation of a word, inconsistent plurals, etc.
The only other languages that I know of that has a problem with homophones are Chinese and Japanese.
I think homophones are one of the reasons why English is probably the hardest, if not one of the hardest, Indo-European language to learn. English is also plagued with silent letters, one letter that alters the meaning and pronunciation of a word, inconsistent plurals, etc.
The only other languages that I know of that has a problem with homophones are Chinese and Japanese.
Yes. And precisely why this should be taught to people learning ESL. It's ridiculous he was fired for writing about something simply because of what it's called.
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