On English Homophones / Society for Pure English, Tract 02
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- S.P.E. Tract No. II
- ON
- ENGLISH HOMOPHONES
- Robert Bridges
- ENGLISH HOMOPHONES
- LIST OF HOMOPHONES
- I. THE MAIN LIST OF HOMOPHONES.
- II. All the following examples involve wh. > w.5
- III. Group of Homophones caused by loss of trilled R.6
- IV. The name of a species (of animals, plants, &c.) is often a homophone. Where there is only one alternative meaning, this causes so little inconvenience that the following names (being in that condition) have been excluded from List I.7
- V. The suffix er added to a root often makes homophones. The following are examples. (And see in List VI.)
- VI. Words excluded from the main list for various reasons, their homophony being rightly questioned by many speakers.
- VII. Homophones due only to an inflected form of a word. Comparatives of adjectives, &c.
- VIII. 'False homophones' [see p. 4], doubtful doublets, &c.
- IX. The following words were not admitted into the main class chiefly on account of their unimportance.
- 1. That homophones are a nuisance.
- 2. That English is exceptionally burdened with homophones.
- 4. That the loss due to homophony threatens to impoverish the language.
- 5. That the South English dialect is a direct and chief cause of homophones.
- 6. That the mischief is being propagated by phoneticians.
- 7. On the claim that Southern English has to represent all British speech.
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