'horse' and 'hoarse' are homophonous words. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
I mean, the man's name is homophonous with "gnome"!. From Wordnik.com. [An Open Letter to David Horowitz] Reference
Cisco's homophonous handset came first (in 2006) and allowed Wi-Fi Internet calls. From Wordnik.com. [Cisco's Gadget Guru] Reference
In contrast, a root that shows a devoiced stop but which confuses the allophone with the homophonous phoneme should instead properly pair with another unvoiced stop. From Wordnik.com. [PIE "look-alike stems" - Evidence of something or a red herring?] Reference
If मरुत marút may be so etymologized, such that these storm gods 'crush' and 'pummel' with thunder3 rather than 'shine' through lightning, then surely so may Sanskrit márīci- 'mote or speck in the air' or 'particle of light' be likewise attributed to the homophonous root referring to crushing, grinding and wearing things away. From Wordnik.com. [Rubbing away the shine (2)] Reference
My favorites:guguru -- corresponds to the (pace Google's legal department) English verb "to Google", appears in the title of some new books and magazine articles (sometimes in a variant form, guuguru, which is homophonous with the Japanese pronunciation of "Google" itself, but written differently -- the verb has the final ru is in hiragana for the reason given above), and inspired this post. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: VERBING JAPANESE.] Reference
Folk melodies are, without exception, homophonous. From Wordnik.com. [Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University] Reference
Hypochondria dominates the early scenes as does an indulgence of homophonous wordplay. From Wordnik.com. [The Pitch | Complete Issue] Reference
Some English words have entered these dialects, the phonetic translation sometimes being very homophonous, sometimes not. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIX No 3] Reference
After reading a certain amount of manuscript verse one is disposed to anathematize the inventor of homophonous syllabification. From Wordnik.com. [A Mortal Antipathy: first opening of the new portfolio] Reference
Mandarin has become so simplified that it is the most homophonous of all the dialects, having as many as 143 words pronounced yi in a common Taiwan dictionary, 123 as chi, 100 as chih, 99 as hsi, and 93 as yen. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XII No 1] Reference
These are followed by exercises on words containing silent letters; on homophonous words; Rules for Spelling; words alike in form, but differing in accent; Prefixes and Affixes; the contractions in common use; the singular and plural forms of the possessive case, &c. From Wordnik.com. [The Standard Speller; Containing Exercises for Oral Spelling; also, Sentences for Silent Spelling by Writing from Dictation. In Which the Representative Words and the Anomalous Words of the English Language are so Classified as to Indicate Their Pronunciation, and to be Fixed in the Memory by Association.] Reference
Throughout the years, as the language became more and more homophonous and as knowledge increased and the world became more technologically sophisticated, polysyllabic words were created by stringing together two or more of the one-syllable words to arrive at new words, the meanings of which were determined by the syllables contributed. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XII No 1] Reference
Apparently it was back in 1891 when Friedrich Müller questioned the sense behind attributing the Vedic storm deities called Maruts to a root meaning 'to shine' as opposed to a homophonous root meaning 'to crush', reasoning it out thusly: "Another etymology, proposed in Böhtlingk's Dictionary, which derives Marut from a root mar, to shine, labours under two disadvantages; first, that there is no such root in Sanskrit; secondly, that the lurid splendour of the lightning is but a subordinate feature in the character of the Maruts.". From Wordnik.com. [Rubbing away the shine (2)] Reference
(phonological fusion) jiàng, for which 醬 ( "sauce") is used as a homophonous borrowing. From Wordnik.com. [Language Log] Reference
As is well known, these sentences have no overt grammatical subject..." and ends "... it is clearly no accident that many quasi-verbs are homophonous with normal morphemes.". From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: ENGLISH SENTENCES WITHOUT OVERT GRAMMATICAL SUBJECTS.] Reference
While it’s plausible that one could manually mistype “no” for “know,” “maid” for “made,” and other homophonous pairings, making a mistake with phonemically different words is much less likely. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » The Gingrich Doctrine and the 21st Century] Reference
His was a talent thoroughly indigenous ” his compositions are of great simplicity; no too complicated combinations of parts, one might even say that they are homophonous; nevertheless what wealth of thought, what beauty of harmony, what profoundness of sentiment do we find there!. From Wordnik.com. [Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician]
The use of those words are homophonous: the Mandarin for "beautiful" is "mai3" and "law" is "fa3". From Wordnik.com. [Word meaning as a window into thought] Reference
Theatre Royal in Hawkins street: fourthly, distraction resultant from compassion for Nelly Bouverist’s non-intellectual, non - political, non-topical expression of countenance and concupiscence caused by Nelly Bouverist’s revelations of white articles of non-intellectual, non-political, non-topical underclothing while she (Nelly Bouverist) was in the articles: fifthly, the difficulties of the selection of appropriate music and humorous allusions from EVERYBODY’S BOOK OF JOKES (1000 pages and a laugh in every one): sixthly, the rhymes, homophonous and cacophonous, associated with the names of the new lord mayor. From Wordnik.com. [Ulysses] Reference
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