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____/ Chris Ahlstrom on Friday 14 Oct 2011 11:31 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:
>
>> - From what I've seen of Brandon over the years, he's not a homophone.
>
> $ dictionary homophone
>
> 2 definitions found
>
> From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
>
> Homophone \Hom"o*phone\, n. [Cf. F. homophone. See
> {Homophonous}.]
> 1. A letter or character which expresses a like sound with
> another. --Gliddon.
> [1913 Webster]
>
> 2. A word having the same sound as another, but differing
> from it in meaning and usually in spelling; as, all and
> awl; bare and bear; rite, write, right, and wright.
> Homophonic
>
> From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
>
> homophone
> n : two words are homophones if they are pronounced the same way
> but differ in meaning or spelling or both (e.g. bare and
> bear)
:-)
Well, this one wasn't a phonetic typo but a fingertip typo (QWERTY). :-)
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