{"id":724,"date":"2010-07-05T08:52:57","date_gmt":"2010-07-05T15:52:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.anabaptistbooks.com\/blog\/?p=724"},"modified":"2010-07-05T08:52:57","modified_gmt":"2010-07-05T15:52:57","slug":"homonyms-homophones-homographs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.anabaptistbooks.com\/blog\/2010\/homonyms-homophones-homographs\/","title":{"rendered":"Homonyms, Homophones, Homographs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do you have homonyms, homophones, and homographs figured out?<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t&#8230;until I landed on this information: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.all-about-spelling.com\/homonyms-homophones-homographs.html\">Homonyms, Homophones, Homographs<\/a>. Below is my version of the info on that page.<\/p>\n<h3>Homonyms<\/h3>\n<p>This is the umbrella which shades homophones and homographs, the clown tottering around on the stilts called <i>homophones<\/i> and <i>homographs<\/i>, the&#8230;well, never mind.<\/p>\n<h3>Homophones<\/h3>\n<p>Homophones are words that <b>sound<\/b> alike, but have different meanings and spellings. Examples: <i>do, due, dew, doo<\/i> and <i>I&#8217;ll, aisle, isle<\/i> and <i>read, reed<\/i><\/p>\n<p>When I learned them (and taught them) we called &#8217;em <i>homonyms<\/i>! Since those good ole days, apparently &#8220;they&#8221; have come up with another term&#8230;.<\/p>\n<h3>Homographs<\/h3>\n<p>Homographs are words that are <b>spelled<\/b> the same, but have different meanings and may have different pronunciations. Examples: <i>wind, wind<\/i> and <i>read, read<\/i> and <i>fix<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Yeah, <i>fix<\/i>. I thought that one up all by myself. \ud83d\ude2f<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you have homonyms, homophones, and homographs figured out? I didn&#8217;t&#8230;until I landed on this information: Homonyms, Homophones, Homographs. Below is my version of the info on that page. Homonyms This is the umbrella which shades homophones and homographs, the clown tottering around on the stilts called homophones and homographs, the&#8230;well, never mind. Homophones Homophones [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[30],"class_list":["post-724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc","tag-tips-and-hints"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1zSU2-bG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anabaptistbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anabaptistbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anabaptistbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anabaptistbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anabaptistbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.anabaptistbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anabaptistbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anabaptistbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anabaptistbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}