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Society for Pure English, Tract 02 - On English Homophones by Robert Seymour Bridges;Society for Pure English
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tern, turn.
teal (_fish_), teil (_tree_).
thrush (_bird_), thrush (_disease_).

[Footnote 5: The following words in List 1 involve _wr_ > _w_, write,
wrach, wrap, wring, wrung, wreck, wrest, wreak, wrick.]

[Footnote 6: Other similar words occurring in other sections are--awe,
awl, ought, bawd, fought, gaud, gauze, haw, caw, cause, caught,
lawn, paw, saw, sauce, sought, taut, caulk, stalk, alms, balm;--their
correspondents being, oar, orle, ort (_obs._), board, fort, gored,
gores, hoar, core, cores, court, lorn, pore, sore, source, sort, tort,
cork, stork, arms, barm.]

[Footnote 7: Other similar proper names of species, &c., which occur
in some one of the other sections of the list: ant, bat, bear, bee,
beet, beetle, beech, box, breeze, date, dock, daw, duck, deer, elder,
erne, fir, flea, flag, fluke, hare, horse, hawk, hop, caper, carrot,
couch, cricket, currant, leech, lichen, mace, maize, mint, mole, pear,
peach, pink, pie, pine, plum, plane, pulse, rabbit, rye, rush, rape,
rail, reed, roe, roc, rue, sage, seal, sloe, sole, spruce, stork,
thyme, char, whale, whin, yew. Also cockle.]


V. THE SUFFIX _ER_ ADDED TO A ROOT OFTEN MAKES HOMOPHONES. THE
FOLLOWING ARE EXAMPLES. (AND SEE IN LIST VI.)

byre, buyer (_who buys_).
butter (_s._), butter (_who butts_).
better (_adj._), better (_who bets_).
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