| The problem of spelling syllabic r is compounded by numerous pairs of homophones. |
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| It is interesting to note that of the 18 homophones that were common to both experiments, the same response bias was observed in 16 of them. |
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| In my own pronunciation, for example, latter and ladder are homophones, unless I'm trying hard to convey the distinction. |
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| Because of the risk of confusion between homophones, the words were first read in a sentence. |
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| He never learnt Irish and his philological arguments tended to invoke specious homophones and improbable etymologies. |
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| She thinks that people who mix up homophones ought to have bricks thrown through their windows. |
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| Participants were presented with homophones and asked to report the first associated word that came to mind. |
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| Technical limitations in the current study meant that the order in which the homophones were presented could not be separately randomised for each participant. |
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| They were not told that the words they would hear were homophones. |
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| It's tougher to find quadruple, quintuple, and sextuple homophones. |
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| Unrivalled accuracy by understanding words in context and retrieval of information according to its meaning, thereby distinguishing homophones. |
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| Some allow students to listen to the options available, speak meanings on homophones, and can allow students to program in unusual spellings that most spell checkers would not pick up. |
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| Play a group game using cards that deals with homophones. |
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| When I got home that night, the eggcorn led to the mondegreen, which is right up there with the spoonerism, and I forgot that the professor was making a point: spell-check does not catch homophones. |
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| But the language is replete with homophones. |
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| First, eggcorns usually involve homophones or near homophones, compared to malapropisms, which usually involve similar sounding words. |
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| The homophone checker searches a document for homophones and offers definitions for all the alternatives. |
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| Here's an alphabet of coined phrase nautonyms that mostly avoids paired homophones. |
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| For example, the words prince and prints have come to be homophones or nearly so. |
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| Even though some of them can spell relatively well, the homophones will catch them out. |
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| The latter discussions sometimes include the creative use of asterisks, code words, or homophones to replace potentially sensitive keywords. |
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| This was through the existence of homophones and homoiophones, that is, of words with different meanings but the same or nearly the same sound. |
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| Stress had become a phonological property and could serve to distinguish forms that were otherwise homophones. |
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| This was through the existence of homophones and homoiophones in a language, of words with the same or similar sounds, but with diverse significations. |
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| For example, with the merger, cot and caught become perfect homophones. |
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| She arrived at this conclusion by having the participants of two groups, blind and sighted, read pseudoword homophones and nonwords that followed the rules of print. |
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| Uniquely, many people in Montreal distinguish between words like marry versus merry and parish versus perish, which are homophones to most other speakers of Canadian English. |
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