On the other hand, it seems to be the fact that well-bred Englishmen do not say "it's him" or it's her." The formula is: "It's he"; "it's she"; "it's me." The homophony doubtless accounts for the anomaly in the case of "me."
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Homophony
//həˈmɒfəni//
Synonyms for "homophony" (18 found)
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Related words (9)
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Breton
1 entries- heñvelsoniezh noun (musical texture)
Catalan
1 entries- homofonia noun (musical texture)
Danish
1 entries- homofoni noun (musical texture)
Finnish
1 entries- homofonia noun (musical texture)
French
1 entries- homophonie noun (musical texture)
Galician
1 entries- homofonía noun (musical texture)
Greek
1 entries- ομοφωνία noun (musical texture)
Irish
2 entries- aonséis noun (musical texture)
- homafóine noun (musical texture)
Italian
1 entries- omofonia noun (musical texture)
Portuguese
1 entries- homofonia noun (musical texture)
Spanish
1 entries- homofonía noun (musical texture)
Welsh
1 entries- cyfunseinedd noun (musical texture)
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Full of gently lapping lines, close imitation and moments of honeyed homophony, all underpinned by tactful percussion, it is startlingly different from the driving, hard edges of much of Lang's work with the Bang On a Can collective.
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There is, for example, the homophony of "merry" and "Mary," which typifies the South Midland accent common in the hill country of east Tennessee and upper Georgia.
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I'd like to point out a few inaccuracies in your article on Joost, where I work (What is Joost all about, January 18). One, it's pronounced more like "juiced". Whether the homophony is deliberate only Janus and Niklas know.
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