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To: Neocon who wrote (59155)	11/27/2002 1:34:33 PM
From: paul_philp	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

STOP. I am become homonymophobic. Paul

To: Neocon who wrote (59155)	11/27/2002 9:13:19 PM
From: Bilow	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 281500

Hi Neocon; Re: "No, "synonym" means that they mean the same thing." Well, "synonyms" need only be "nearly the same" in meaning: A word having the same or nearly the same meaning as another word or other words in a language. dictionary.reference.com Re: "I am right. He is wrong." Your original use of the word "homonym" was correct (). His correction to "homophone" does not improve the intended meaning of your sentence. Neither homonym nor homophone perfectly describe what you really needed, which was a word to describe the relation between two words which sound the same but are spelled differently. Homonym means "One of two or more words that have the same sound and often the same spelling but differ in meaning, such as bank (embankment) and bank (place where money is kept)." dictionary.reference.com Thus homonym includes words that do not pose a problem to people typing by sound. That is, the two "bank" words mean different things, sound the same, but since they're spelled the same, they will not cause a typing problem. His complaint was apparently that you could have chosen instead "homophone". But homophones can also be spelled the same: One of two or more words, such as night and knight, that are pronounced the same but differ in meaning, origin, and sometimes spelling.* dictionary.reference.com I don't think that a word exists that precisely indicates two words, that must be differently spelled, but that sound the same. -- Carl (*) The old use of "homonym" and "homophone" is to distinguish between them. For example, see: cloudnet.com I'm going to guess that the old meanings are what the furriners are using, and in that sense, they're right that the correct word is homophone.