This was through the existence of homophones and homoiophones in a language, of words with the same or similar sounds, but with diverse significations.
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This was through the existence of homophones and homoiophones in a language, of words with the same or similar sounds, but with diverse significations.
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This was through the existence of homophones and homoiophones, that is, of words with different meanings but the same or nearly the same sound.
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Have you any idea as to what ought to be done with what I believe you pepel call homophones or homoiophones. I hope that is not the right name for them. But is it not foolish to have an educated nation that refuses to readjust such inconveniences?
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By way of bringing this intricate and tedious dissertation to an end, allow me to recite a short specimen of the thing itself — a Siamese “jaw-breaker” which, for ingenious bewilderment by means of homoiophones, I am sure does not fall behind our “Theophilus Thistle the Thistle-sifter,” while in coloratura of intonation it certainly leaves that far behind.
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