Society for Pure English, Tract 02 - On English Homophones by Robert Seymour Bridges;Society for Pure English
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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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