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hiflier | 13:05 Thu 30th Jul 2009 | Word Origins
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A homophone is defined as a word that has two or more different spellings but is pronounced the same, eg their/there, four/fore/for, scent/sent, conquer/conker. What is a word that is pronounced in two or more different ways but has only one spelling, eg tear, sow, lead?
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Only did a brief search......dunno if this is right.......
Homograph or a homoglyph
13:11 Thu 30th Jul 2009
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The word you're after is heteronym. Homophone = sounds the same but different meaning, homograph = written and pronounced the same but different meaning, heteronym = written the same but pronounced differently for different meaning. From the Greek homo = same. hetero = different.
13:29 Thu 30th Jul 2009

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