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hear and here; heard and herd; heated and heeded; hew and hue; hi and high; higher and hire; him and hymn; ho and hoe; hoar and whore; hoard and horde; hoarse and horse; hoes and hose; hold and holed; hole and whole; holey, holy and wholly; hostel and hostile; hour and our; idle and idol; immanent and imminent; in and inn; incidence and ...
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. [27]
The verb hear had earlier been used in the King James Bible as a command for others to listen. [ 1 ] Other phrases have been derived from hear, hear , such as a hear, hear (a cheer), to hear-hear (to shout the expression), and hear-hearer (a person who does the same).
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).
hear and here. To hear is to detect a sound with one's ears. Here refers to one's immediate location. hoard and horde. A hoard is a store or accumulation of things. A horde is a large group of people. Standard: A horde of shoppers lined up to be the first to buy the new gizmo. Standard: He has a hoard of discontinued rare cards.
Homophone: words with same sounds but with different meanings; Homophonic translation; Mondegreen: a mishearing (usually unintentional) as a homophone or near-homophone that has as a result acquired a new meaning.
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").
Examples of homophones resulting from the merger include pin–pen, kin–ken and him–hem. The merger is widespread in Southern American English and is also found in many speakers in the Midland region immediately north of the South and in areas settled by migrants from Oklahoma and Texas who settled in the Western United States during the ...