Pure English, Tract No. II. English Homophones

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Author

Bridges, Robert, 1844-1930

Title

On English Homophones Society for Pure English, Tract 02

Credits

Produced by David Starner, William Flis and the PG Online Distributed Proofreading Team.

Language

English

LoC Class

PE: Language and Literatures: English

Subject

English language -- Homonyms

Category

Text

eBook-No.

14227

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/14227

Release Date

December 1, 2004

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.S.P.E. — Tract No. II
2. 2.ON — ENGLISH HOMOPHONES — BY — Robert Bridges
3. 3.ENGLISH HOMOPHONES
4. 4.LIST OF HOMOPHONES — I. THE MAIN LIST OF HOMOPHONES. — II. All the following examples involve wh. > w. 5 — III. Group of Homophones caused by loss of trilled R. 6 — IV. The name of a species (of animals, plants, &c.) is often a homophone. Where there is only one alternative meaning, this causes so little inconvenience that the following names (being in that condition) have been excluded from List I. 7 — V. The suffix er added to a root often makes homophones. The following are examples. (And see in List VI.) — VI. Words excluded from the main list for various reasons, their homophony being rightly questioned by many speakers. — VII. Homophones due only to an inflected form of a word. Comparatives of adjectives, &c. — VIII. 'False homophones' [see p. 4 ], doubtful doublets, &c. — IX. The following words were not admitted into the main class chiefly on account of their unimportance. — 1. That homophones are a nuisance. — 2. That English is exceptionally burdened with homophones. — 4. That the loss due to homophony threatens to impoverish the language. — 5. That the South English dialect is a direct and chief cause of homophones. — 6. That the mischief is being propagated by phoneticians. — 7. On the claim that Southern English has to represent all British speech.
5. 5.SUMMARY

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