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Get ready for all of today's NYT 'Connections’ hints and answers for #546 on Sunday, December 8, 2024. Today's NYT Connections puzzle for Sunday, December 8, 2024 The New York Times
Get ready for all of today's NYT 'Connections’ hints and answers for #356 on Saturday, June 1, 2024. Today's NYT Connections puzzle for Saturday, June 1, 2024 New York Times
Pseudo-homophones are pseudowords that are phonetically identical to a word. For example, groan/grone and crane/crain are pseudo-homophone pairs, whereas plane/plain is a homophone pair since both letter strings are recognised words. Both types of pairs are used in lexical decision tasks to investigate word recognition. [17]
Homographs are words with the same spelling but having more than one meaning. Homographs may be pronounced the same (), or they may be pronounced differently (heteronyms, also known as heterophones).
aahed and odd; adieu and ado; ant and aunt; aural and oral; err becomes the same as ere, air and heir; marry and merry; rout and route; seated and seeded; shone and shown; tidal and title; trader and traitor
SPOILERS BELOW—do not scroll any further if you don't want the answer revealed. The New York Times. Today's Wordle Answer for #1275 on Sunday, December 15, 2024.
Homophones (literally "same sound") are usually defined as words that share the same pronunciation, regardless of how they are spelled. [ note 2 ] If they are spelled the same then they are also homographs (and homonyms); if they are spelled differently then they are also heterographs (literally "different writing").
The shortest is "Buffalo!", which can be taken as a verbal imperative instruction to bully someone ("[You,] buffalo!") with the implied subject "you" removed, [4]: 99–100, 104 or, as a noun exclamation, expressing e.g. that a buffalo has been sighted, or as an adjectival exclamation, e.g. as a response to the question, "where are you from?"