Homographs and Homophones

Eric Vasquez, 6A1, January, 2010

Table Of Contents

• Homophone: Two or more words pronounced alike but different in meaning or spelling (as the words affect, and effect)

• Homograph: Two or more words spelled alike but has a different in meaning or pronunciation like (The lumberjack axes the trees to the ground. And The x and y axes intersect at (0,0) )

• Bibliography

Homophone

• The right way is to write not draw.

• Can you see the salty sea

• The pile of waste was up to my waist.

• After we won the match, we went out for won tons. Boiled won tons

Homograph

• Nicks big fingers could not wind up the clock again. The wind howled through the woodlands

• Broken sewer pipes can be a smelly mess. "We might choose the best sewers in the class”

Bibliography

• http://www.all-about-spelling.com/list-of-homophones.html

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homophone

• http://www.cooper.com/alan/homonym_list.html

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homograph

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_homographs