A Dyer by name and a dyer by trade, Of a dire disease he a die-er was made. But mark you well, what seems very quaint, A die-er was he of a liver complaint.
I was wondering about how homonyms fitted in with homophones. This is what Ninjawords says:
Homonym: "a word that sounds or is spelled the same as another word but has a different meaning. (Homonyms are divided into the two overlapping subcategories homographs and homophones. Examples: die and dye (homophones but not homographs); the fish fluke and fluke, part of the tail of a whale (homophones and homographs); the metal lead and the verb form lead (homographs but not homophones.)"
In case yer interested: A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole is chock-a-block with big-grin producing "non-standard-type" homonyms in the ubiquitous dialogs between the characters in the book.
My favourite epitaph:
A Dyer by name and a dyer by trade,
Of a dire disease he a die-er was made.
But mark you well, what seems very quaint,
A die-er was he of a liver complaint.
One of my favorite novels, oroboros. :-)
I was wondering about how homonyms fitted in with homophones. This is what Ninjawords says:
Homonym: "a word that sounds or is spelled the same as another word but has a different meaning. (Homonyms are divided into the two overlapping subcategories homographs and homophones. Examples: die and dye (homophones but not homographs); the fish fluke and fluke, part of the tail of a whale (homophones and homographs); the metal lead and the verb form lead (homographs but not homophones.)"
In case yer interested: A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole is chock-a-block with big-grin producing "non-standard-type" homonyms in the ubiquitous dialogs between the characters in the book.
Alphabetical listing of English homonyms, here
one of two or more words spelled and pronounced alike but different in meaning