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Originally Posted by Mariner  Homophones are words that sound the same, while their spelling is different (e.g. bear-bare, flour-flower)
If their spelling is also the same, they are homonyms [e.g. bank (of a river)-bank (the financial institution)]
Regarding "Jamaica" and "Did you make her?", I guess you can pronounce them the same, with a lot of imagination  |
Well, I wouldn't pronounce them the same at all! But nowadays, when I can here the terrible slang words and speech of those strange people... I do believe they do read it like this.
Is there something called "
homographes" in English?