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    dialects like Paulistano considering it non-homophonic, while dialects like Caipira consider it only homophonic, noting that these are two Brazilian dialects...
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  • phonogram. Homophonic substitution cipher − a cipher that disguises plaintext letter frequencies by homophony: 'e' is given more homophonic ciphertext...
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  • Homophonic translation renders a text in one language into a near-homophonic text in another language, usually with no attempt to preserve the original...
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    Homophony (redirect from Homophonic texture)
    distinct harmonic functions to the soprano, bass and inner voices. A homophonic texture may be homorhythmic, which means that all parts have the same...
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  • "Homophones" is a word game in which a player creates a sentence or phrase containing a pair or larger set of homophones, substitutes another (usually...
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  • more securely, some homophonic ciphers employed wholly invented alphabets of fanciful symbols. The book cipher is a type of homophonic cipher, one example...
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  • with homophones should be distinguished from words with homophones. The proportion of homophonic words is much smaller than that of homophonic characters...
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    Pun (section Homophonic)
    famous for his puns and word games. A homophonic pun is one that uses word pairs which sound alike (homophones) but are not synonymous. Walter Redfern...
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  • British Homophone was a record company, based in Great Britain that operated between 1921 and 1985. Incorporated on 3 August 1921 as a private company...
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  • A contronym, contranym or autantonym is a word with two meanings that are opposite each other. For example, the word cleave can mean "to cut apart" or...
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    literature. Homophonic puns in particular are called 音义双关; 音義雙關; yīn yì shuāng guān or more simply 谐音; 諧音; xiéyīn; 'homophones' while homophonic characters...
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  • both hands performing the same melody an octave apart: Bars 5–10 are homophonic, with all voices coinciding rhythmically: Bars 11–20 are polyphonic. There...
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    with the same writing and pronunciation (i.e. are both homographs and homophones) are considered homonyms. However, in a broader sense the term "homonym"...
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    either related or unrelated to a homophonic character was presented before the character. Both Japanese and Chinese homophones were examined. Whereas word...
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    Lute songs were generally in strophic form or verse repeating with a homophonic texture. The composition was written for a solo voice with an accompaniment...
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  • homographs—words that have the same spelling (regardless of pronunciation)—or homophones—words that have the same pronunciation (regardless of spelling)—or both...
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  • Mots d'Heures (category Homophonic translation)
    written homophonically as a nonsensical French text (with pseudo-scholarly explanatory footnotes); that is, as an English-to-French homophonic translation...
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  • on the principles of homophonic parallelism (chords based around a leading melody that follow its rhythm and contour), homophonic polyphony (independent...
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    to demonstrate the diphthong /aʊ/. English orthography also uses the homophonic spelling "ou" to represent this diphthong in words like "noun" and "cloud"...
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    Hanja's language of origin, Chinese, has many homophones, and Hanja words became even more homophonic when they came into Korean, since Korean lacks...
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  • a wordplay on "takioto (滝音; waterfall sound)"; "oto (音; sound)" is a homophone of "oto (落; to fall)". Four friends are hiking through the forest to a...
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    of which is to indicate which of the possible meanings of the other, homophonic syllable is specifically meant. However, when one of the above words forms...
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  • large number of homographs (different meanings for a given spelling) and homophones (different meanings for a given pronunciation). Kakekotoba (掛詞) or "pivot...
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  • (死阿陸) Taiwan Chinese people Literally means "damned mainlanders". the homophonic numerical form of this phrase(426) is also frequently used. Siamtue (Thai:...
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  • This article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. For...
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    commonly) Francine. (For most speakers, Francis and Frances are homophones or near homophones; a popular mnemonic for the spelling is "i for him and e for...
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  • Soramimi (category Homophonic translation)
    gives it a different meaning Homophonic translation – where a text in one language is translated into a near-homophonic text in another language, with...
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    to understand when read in other Sinitic languages, such as Cantonese. Homophonic puns in Standard Chinese List of linguistic example sentences James while...
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  • while I kiss this guy." A homophonic translation is a holorime or near-holorime where the two homophonic or near-homophonic readings come from different...
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  • participle) and "red". This list includes only a few homophones although incorrect use of homophones is a very common error; the following words from the...
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