id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 14227 Bridges, Robert On English Homophones Society for Pure English, Tract 02 .txt text/plain 18379 1978 81 [Footnote 1: Homophone is a Greek word meaning 'same-sounding', and excluded from my list: they exhibit different meanings of one word, not the same sound of different words: they are of necessity present, at all doubtful, such words are practically homophones:--and again in language, the differentiation of the sound of words is of the essence dictionary as 100,000: Jones has 38,000 words, exclusive of proper [Footnote 5: The following words in List 1 involve _wr_ > _w_, write, HOMOPHONES DUE ONLY TO AN INFLECTED FORM OF A WORD. since confusion of words is not confined to homophones, the practical Examples of words specialized thus from homophones from words of the same sound having different significations, and the obsolete words: the homophones separated out from these will show word has lost much of its old use: and the verb TO FARE has Now how do these words appear in Jones' dictionary? ./cache/14227.txt ./txt/14227.txt