polyphonic homographs
most quasi-smarties (or at least, those people who didn't sleep through third grade) can tell you that in the english language homonyms are words that are spelled differently, but pronounced the same (e.g. to and two). but only the super-geniuses can tell that words which are spelled the same, but pronounced differently, are called polyphonic homographs (many-sound same-writing -- thanks for the root words, ms. rohovec).
for example:
following karpov's lead, i got real drunk and then slept with the dog on the floor.
gwion's response was to fight the fox demons with pancakes made of lead.
they're more common in speech than you'd guess (there are probably 50 or so). for the last couple of years i've been keeping a list as i run across them. you get these, dear reader, as a bonus for sticking by me all these many days:
for example:
following karpov's lead, i got real drunk and then slept with the dog on the floor.
- vs -
gwion's response was to fight the fox demons with pancakes made of lead.
they're more common in speech than you'd guess (there are probably 50 or so). for the last couple of years i've been keeping a list as i run across them. you get these, dear reader, as a bonus for sticking by me all these many days:
read
lead
tear
wound
perfect
present
wind
use
close
content
object
shower
record
invalid
putting (thanks, leslie)
recall (thanks, stearno)
project (also stearno)
bass (thanks, anne)
appropriate (thanks, leslie)
lead
tear
wound
perfect
present
wind
use
close
content
object
shower
record
invalid
putting (thanks, leslie)
recall (thanks, stearno)
project (also stearno)
bass (thanks, anne)
appropriate (thanks, leslie)
posted by b1-66er at 20:19
2 Comments:
hmm. that's hard to say, because "sin" on your calculator is actually an abbreviation for "sine."
BUT you damn maple leaf suckers, probably due to nationalized medicine, are prone to not saying things right.
for example, we say toyota celica as sell-ick-a, but you say sell-eek-a. so it's possible that sine and sin are the same, in which case you'd have a:
psuedocryptocanado polyphonic semihomograph
which seems a bit much, so let's just agree to call it a
canado p. homo
it's hard to say that's not fitting.
(nice poem, btw. you're hereby granted the title of queen poet laureate of b1-66er's world, complete with all titles that implies. and yes, you have to make your own damn icon.)
correction: i meant to say "damn maple leaf chewers." i just didn't want to do a delete and re-post.
no offense, queenie.
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