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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. The term is often used to refer specifically to mishearings of song lyrics (cf. soramimi).
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?"
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).
grade and grayed/greyed; grate and great; grays/greys and graze; grisly and grizzly; groan and grown; guessed and guest; guide and guyed; guise and guys; hail and hale; hair and hare; hairy and harry; hall and haul; halve and have; hangar and hanger; hay and hey; hays and haze; he'd and heed; he'll, heal and heel; hear and here; heard and herd ...
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]
For the new song, Tom Yohe Jr. took over as lead designer for his father, Tom Yohe Sr., who had died in 2000. [9] Another contemporary song, called "Presidential Minute," also written by George Newall, which explained the process of electing the President of the United States in greater detail, was included on the 2008 DVD Schoolhouse Rock!
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").
"Homophones" is a word game in which a player creates a sentence or phrase containing a pair or larger set of homophones, substitutes another (usually nonsensical) pair of words for the homophone pair, then reads the newly created sentence out loud. The object of the game is for the other players to deduce what the original homophone pair is.