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| WentworthsGal Senior Member United KingdomRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4699 days ago 191 posts - 246 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Swedish, Spanish | Message 1 of 11 26 November 2011 at 3:09pm | IP Logged | ||
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I thought it would be interesting (apologies if this has already been tackled) to find out which words in your language (specifically in one dialect or region) either sound the same but have different spellings or have the same spelling but can sound different for different meanings...
English - South East England - sound the same but different spellings to, too, two which, witch bear, bare meet, meat be, bee son, sun dye, die tea, tee your, you're hair, hare here, hear deer, dear there, their, they're red, read (past tense) reed, read (present tense) and I think there's 'rede' too need, knead pea, pee hay, hey! key, quay queue, cue know, no seek, sikh tail, tale Wales, whales (plural) pawn, porn cheater, cheetah break, brake wait, weight flower, flour English - South East England - Words spelt the same but pronounced differently Polish - polish used to shine things and Polish in the sense of Poland rebel - rebel as in the verb and then rebel as in the noun can't think of any more just now for this category... Edited by WentworthsGal on 29 November 2011 at 4:56pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
 Fasulye Heptaglot Winner TAC 2012 Moderator Germany fasulyespolyglotblog Joined 5658 days ago 5460 posts - 6006 votes 1 sounds Speaks: German*, DutchC1, EnglishB2, French, Italian, Spanish, Esperanto Studies: Latin, Danish, Norwegian, Turkish Personal Language Map | Message 2 of 11 26 November 2011 at 4:32pm | IP Logged | ||
Hi people with a solid study background in linguistics: What are the correct linguistic terms for these two categories of words? One category I am thinking about may be homonyms. Fasulye 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| a3 Triglot Senior Member Bulgaria Joined 5067 days ago 273 posts - 370 votes Speaks: Bulgarian*, English, Russian Studies: Portuguese, German, Italian, Spanish, Norwegian, Finnish | Message 3 of 11 26 November 2011 at 5:58pm | IP Logged | ||
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iirc homonyms are words that are spelled and pronounced the same, but have different meanings and here we're talking about paronyms
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 jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6720 days ago 4250 posts - 5710 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map | Message 4 of 11 27 November 2011 at 12:12am | IP Logged | ||
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Isn't it "homophones" (as in sounding alike)?
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| Vos Diglot Senior Member Australia Joined 5377 days ago 766 posts - 1020 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Dutch, Polish | Message 5 of 11 27 November 2011 at 2:26am | IP Logged | ||
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No no Fasulye, you were correct with homonym - Two or multiple words having the same pronunciation, but
different meanings, origins or spelling (to, too, two). A paronym on the other hand is a word which is related to another and has a related meaning, thus brave and bravery, or tide and tidal for example. A homophone seems to be basically the same as a homonym according to my dictionary. - each of two or more words having the same pronunciation but different meanings, origins or spelling. Also homographs are the words which have the same spelling but are not necessarily pronounced the same and have different meanings and/or origins. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Carlucio Triglot Groupie BrazilRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4669 days ago 70 posts - 113 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, EnglishC1, Spanish Studies: Mandarin | Message 6 of 11 27 November 2011 at 3:50am | IP Logged | ||
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The word manga in portuguese can mean:
Mango Sleeve Japanese comics. The adjective alto: High Tall Loud But the champions of the confusion are the Porquês, there is 4: Por que----Why Por quê-----Why? Porque----Because Porquê-------The reason. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| mrwarper Diglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member Spain forum_posts.asp?TID=Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5037 days ago 1493 posts - 2500 votes Speaks: Spanish*, EnglishC2 Studies: German, Russian, Japanese | Message 7 of 11 27 November 2011 at 11:48am | IP Logged | ||
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The 'confusing' words:
Words that sound the same (but are different) are homophones, as Jeff pointed out. Homograpsh are different words that are written the same, as Vos said. If you have words that look and sound the same (different meanings), they're homonyms. Looking at it the other way around, a word or expression that has several meanings is a polyseme. Paronyms are words similar (not equal) to each other, be it because of spelling or etymology, so they should be a bit less confusing ;) Sorry, but to give you a list of any of them I'd spend half a too beautiful morning. Interesting, though, to see we have the same 'por que' stuff as Portuguese here. Luckily, we used to be told how it works at school :) Edited by mrwarper on 27 November 2011 at 11:54am 4 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| WentworthsGal Senior Member United KingdomRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4699 days ago 191 posts - 246 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Swedish, Spanish | Message 8 of 11 27 November 2011 at 1:30pm | IP Logged | ||
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Yeah, I decided to avoid the same word and spelling but different meanings e.g date, table etc as I knew I'd be here all day listing them lol.
I like the pourque words... I'm sure quite a puzzle for beginners learning Portugese and Spanish until they get used to them... 1 person has voted this message useful |
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