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Homographs are words with the same spelling but having more than one meaning. Homographs may be pronounced the same , or they may be pronounced differently (heteronyms, also known as heterophones). Some homographs are nouns or adjectives when the accent is on the first syllable, and verbs when it is on the second.
A homograph (from the Greek: ὁμός, homós 'same' and γράφω, gráphō 'write') is a word that shares the same written form as another word but has a different meaning. [1] However, some dictionaries insist that the words must also be pronounced differently, [ 2 ] while the Oxford English Dictionary says that the words should also be of ...
Triple heteronyms are extremely rare in English; three examples, sin, mobile and does, are listed below. Proper nouns can sometimes be heteronyms. For example, the final syllable in the US state of Oregon is pronounced /-ə n / (or /-ɪ n /), while in the name of the village of Oregon in Wisconsin, the final syllable is pronounced /-ɒ n /.
Homographs (literally "same writing") are usually defined as words that share the same spelling, regardless of how they are pronounced. [ note 1 ] If they are pronounced the same then they are also homophones (and homonyms) – for example, bark (the sound of a dog) and bark (the skin of a tree).
For example, the letters b and v are pronounced exactly alike, so the words basta (coarse) and vasta (vast) are pronounced identically. [7] Other homonyms are spelled the same, but mean different things in different genders. For example, the masculine noun el capital means 'capital' as in 'money', but the feminine noun la capital means 'capital ...
Wait, aren't these all examples of homographs (though "read" and "lead" and "produce" are heteronyms), that is, all examples where the meaning changes? Jack was asking for examples with identical meanings in both pronunciations, or a term for this phenomenon. ---Sluzzelin talk 02:37, 7 January 2011 (UTC)
Some examples of traumatic experiences that can lead to PTSD: A history of child abuse. Physical abuse. War and military combat. A car accident or some other accident. A natural disaster.
An interlingual homograph is a word that occurs in more than one written language, but which has a different meaning or pronunciation in each language. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] For example the word "done" is an adjective in English (pronounced /dʌn/), a verb in Spanish (present subjunctive form of donar ) and a noun in Czech (vocative singular form of don ...