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Topic: List of English homographs

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	Hebrew Homographs and Logos
		Homographs – One of two or more words that have the same spelling (whether or not they are pronounced the same) but differ in meaning such as wind (air current) and wind (to twist or wrap) or fair (pleasing in appearance) and fair (market).
		These homograph numbers are incredibly useful for searching purposes, but insufficient to resolve all the issues involved in getting to the right word in a lexicon.
		All of the Hebrew texts listed above and almost all of the lexicons have already been significantly updated since 3.0 was first released, so it is highly recommended that you run Libronix Update from the Tools menu and download new copies of all the Hebrew texts and lexicons released with the current version, 3.0a.
	www.logos.com /support/lbs/hebrewhomographs (1148 words)

	InteliHealth:
		She wants to research this condition and is putting together a list of related terms for on-line searching in her research.
		The words in the Results List are generally in alphabetical order, with homographs for the word listed first, followed by compounds containing the word.
		Homographs are words that are spelled the same but that are entered separately in the dictionary because they differ in pronunciation, derivation, or part of speech.
	www.intelihealth.com /IH/ihtIH?t=9276&c=209481&p=~br,IHW\|~st,408\|~r,WSIHW000\|~b,*\| (3166 words)

	ELECTRONIC TERM LIST -- DIGEST
		Since lists of homonyms have already been compiled – see for example, HOMOGRAPHS – it would be easy to post them in an ETL that would highlight the words whenever a writer wrote one of them in a text.
		Hence having a list of them could sometimes be useful and having an ETL that highlighted any homophone when it was written in a word processor and supported a hyperlink to list members of the set might be valued by some writers.
		Such a personal list would be different from suggestions made to a group for new terms to be added to their list.
	webdata.soc.hawaii.edu /fredr/ETLdigest.htm (10315 words)

	How to Use the TGN Online (Research at the Getty)
		In the English display, the preferred names of places are in English; in the Vernacular display, the preferred names of places are in the vernacular or local name of the place.
		Homographs are sorted by the parent string (e.g., in the above example, the parents World, Europe...
		In the English display, the preferred names of places are in English; in the Vernacular display, the preferred names of places are in the vernacular or local name of the place (e.g., the name of the nation is Greece in the English and Ellás in the Vernacular Display).
	www.getty.edu /research/tools/vocabulary/tgn/help.html (2941 words)

	English Is An Awful Language
		As native English speakers, we don't even really think about just how completely backwards and illogical our language is. We learned it at a young age where everything taught to us was accepted without much questioning.
		English definitely gets the job done (as far as communication), but the cost of learning English is so much higher than it needs to be.
		English already has far more rules than it needs, but the number of exceptions to the rules exacerbates the situation to no end.
	www.umsl.edu /~nki4z3/articles/english.sucks.html (1542 words)

	Craven's Haven - Mark and Katie's homograph page
		A homograph is a word that has different pronuciations and definitions, but is spelled the same (homo=same, graph=write).
		The term is contrasted with homophones, words with two spellings and two meanings but only one pronunciation such as fair/fare, and with homonyms, words with one spelling, one pronunciation, but two unrelated meanings, such as bear or just or left.
		The fact that the meanings are unrelated is what distinguishes homonyms from polysemes, words with varied meanings or usages, such as course or table or paper, where all the meanings can be traced back to the same source.
	markandkatiecraven.home.att.net /homograph.htm (446 words)

	ENGLISH (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		We believe that an effective English language arts program has students increasingly taking responsibility for their own learning, working independently, and transferring their skills and knowledge to new situations.
		We believe that an effective English language arts program provides a wide-range of purposeful communication activities that use the content and processes of language to identify and solve problems, think analytically and creatively about important themes, and apply their skills to real-life situations.
		We believe that an effective English language arts program emphasizes writing as an essential method to develop, clarify, and communicate an assortment of ideas to different audiences for a variety of purposes.
	www.aisj-jhb.com /english.htm (5054 words)

	English Pronunciation: Homophones (EnglishClub.com)
		The following list of 70 groups of homophones contains only the most common homophones, using relatively well-known words.
		Different varieties and accents of English may produce variations in some of these pronunciations.
		The homophones listed here are based on British English.
	www.englishclub.com /pronunciation/homophones.htm (219 words)

	About the GSL
		Derived forms are listed under the headwords in lowercase bold type and are (usually) given their own frequency numbers.
		This list contains all of the headwords and bold-faced derived forms listed in the GSL, excluding hyphenated and compound words, grouped into word families based on levels one through four of Bauer and Nation (1995) and ranked according to frequency numbers supplied by the Brown Corpus.
		In this list, the frequency number assigned to each headword include those homographic forms as well as the semantically linked, different parts of speech and represent all occurrences of that graphic word in the Brown Corpus.
	jbauman.com /aboutgsl.html (1160 words)

	Tower of English Vocabulary
		It's a list of the 1000 words that are used the most when speaking English.
		The Anagram Hall of Fame is a list of some of the most interesting anagrams that people have discovered.
		English is a language that is always changing.
	towerofenglish.com /vocabulary.html (2094 words)

	Homonym - LoveToKnow 1911
		Words alike only in spelling but not in sound, e.g.
		" bow," are sometimes called homographs; and words alike only in sound but not in spelling, e.g.
		This page was last modified 12:52, 3 Sep 2006.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Homonym (69 words)

	termlist
		Indeed, many word lists already exist and it would be possible to generate the kind of list proposed here, although it might be a costly and perhaps redundant process.
		In a term list, by contrast, the computer can combine all the equivalent terms for a concept in one entry, and users will be able to find that entry regardless of which equivalent term they use in their query.
		English is specified here because we are working in English and we need a foundation, but once established, the same principles can be applied to parallel utilities in any other language users may want to use.
	webdata.soc.hawaii.edu /fredr/termlist.htm (15703 words)

	One Stop English \| Adrian Tennant
		The task is for the other students to explain the word on the board (using English) to the student sitting in the chair.
		You need to think of your words and clues before the class but otherwise there are no materials (either dictate the clues or write them up on the board).
		Think of words that are homographs and then ‘write’ (or think of a clue for the different meanings).
	www.onestopenglish.com /section.asp?docid=146544 (1015 words)

	UTR# 36: Unicode Security Considerations
		Spoofing is not dependent on just homographs; if the visual appearance is close enough at small sizes or in the most common fonts, that can be sufficient to cause problems.
		Because of the widespread commercial use of English and other Latin-based languages (such as "خدمة RSS"), it is quite common to have instances of Latin (especially ASCII) in text that principally consists of other scripts.
		For examples, consider proper names such as "Zoë", words from the Oxford English Dictionary such as "coöperate", and many foreign words, proper or not, that are in common use: "René", ‘naïve’, ‘déjà vu’, ‘résumé’, etc… Thus the problem with restricting identifiers by language is the difficulty in defining exactly what that implies.
	www.unicode.org /reports/tr36 (10193 words)

	A List Apart: Articles: How to Save Web Accessibility from Itself
		Depending on the markup language, English may either be marked as the language for the entire document except where specified, or marked at the paragraph level.
		Where possible, the user is allowed to select from a list of options as well as to generate input text directly.
		Symbols such as diacritic marks that are found in standard usage of the natural language of the content, and that are necessary for unambiguous identification of words, are present or another standard mechanism for disambiguation is provided.
	www.alistapart.com /articles/saveaccessibility (4612 words)

	English Resources: Language [English Online]
		The Kiwi English Project was a web based research project carried out in 2000 to ascertain what regional differences, if any, there are in the colloquial language young New Zealanders use.
		A dictionary portal with access to a range of popular dictionaries for English and other languages, thesauruses, translators, encyclopedias, crossword solvers as well as specialist dictionaries (e.g., medical, legal etc.).
		From Victoria University,an important resource for the study of NZ English with research information as well as activities ranging from "Hidden Taonga"to "NZ Place-Names" to "Unravelling NZ English Usage for Newcomer"(PDFs).
	english.unitecnology.ac.nz /resources/links/english_resources.html?sub_type=Language (1274 words)

	Alan Cooper's All About Homonyms
		I consider homonyms to be the prime numbers of the English language.
		In alphabetical order, here is a list of some of the many generous people who have contributed to this list of homonyms.
		The old list was in seven sections, which have been combined into one big one.
	www.cooper.com /alan/homonym.html (1403 words)

	Grade Five - Content Standards (CA Dept of Education)
		The standards for written and oral English language conventions have been placed between those for writing and for listening and speaking because these conventions are essential to both sets of skills.
		Students write and speak with a command of standard English conventions appropriate to this grade level.
		Student speaking demonstrates a command of standard American English and the organizational and delivery strategies outlined in Listening and Speaking Standard 1.0.
	www.cde.ca.gov /be/st/ss/enggrade5.asp (1165 words)

	List of commonly confused homonyms
		This is a list of commonly confused homonyms including both homophones – words which have the same pronunciation – and homographs – words which are spelled the same.
		formerly\nformally (These are not homonyms to most speakers of English*, but are homonyms in some non-rhotic dialects, including "Received Pronunciation".)
		Misspelling\n* List of English homographs\n* List of English words with frequent misuse\n* List of common misspellings in English
	encyclopedia.codeboy.net /wikipedia/l/li/list_of_commonly_confused_homonyms.html (1863 words)

	termlist
		If the word list is linked to the term list, the comparison can be made very easily, but even if one has to consult a published or electronic dictionary separately, it is not difficult to make this comparison.
		In a term list, by contrast, the computer can combine all the equivalent terms for a concept in one entry, and users will be able to find that entry regardless of which equivalent term they use in their query.
		English is specified here because we are working in English and we need a foundation, but once established, the same principles can be applied to parallel utilities in any other language users may want to use.
	www2.hawaii.edu /~fredr/termlist.htm (15701 words)

	Lexicons and Letter-to-sound rules
		For English, a lexicon is required to give pronunciations of words, though as all lexicons will be incomplete there is also a requirement for a mechanism for giving pronunciation of words not found in the lexicon.
		Each word in the lexicon is converted to a list of letters (plus part of speech) and held in a sorted table, each entry has an index into a list of phones (with lexical stress marked on vowels).
		The exception list is still too big for most people's use, and we should prune it further based on word frequency.
	www-2.cs.cmu.edu /~awb/papers/ISCA01/flite/node7.html (466 words)

	Pronunciation Web Resources
		Sounds of English by Sharon Widmayer http://www.soundsofenglish.org An explanation of the sound system of English, including diagrams and example sounds in.au format.
		The extensive list of RP minimal pairs can be downloaded, since they are in ASCII format.
		English "Pronunciation Test "http://pauillac.inria.fr/~xleroy/stuff/english-pronunciation.html Another incarnation of the 'English is tough stuff' poem.
	www.sunburstmedia.com /PronWeb.html (1593 words)

	Staff List: alphaSplit - School of English Studies - The University of Nottingham
		My research focuses on language processing in a first and second language, and in particular investigates the influence of word representations on processing sentences or discourse.
		For example, investigations examine bilingual activation of interlingual homographs (e.g., coin meaning ‘money’ in English and ‘corner’ in French) and look at the influence of sentence context, word frequency, and proficiency on activation.
		Other studies use eye-tracking and modelling to investigate the conditions under which gender information from Dutch word representations influences processing in English during the natural task of listening to sentences in a short discourse.
	www.nottingham.ac.uk /english/lookup/lookup_az.php?id=ODA1NjU3&page_var=personal (161 words)

	Homographs
		Greetings– I understand that this question might seem trivial or even meaningless but this list will be used to try and program a computer spellchecker in a smart(er)...
		Anonymous wrote: Although Chinese syllable structure is as you suggest, this is completely different from the importance of word structure.
		Hi, I'd say the word 'bank' is itself a homograph, as is the word 'account'.
	www.englishforums.com /search/Homographs.htm (267 words)

	Translation from English to Spanish: Translate Spanish - Systran Software - Lowest Prices
		For example, if you were to add the word "wind", be sure to put in "the wind" and "a wind", this way the software knows that should be treated as a noun.
		Also at the same time add "to wind" and "wind up" Below is a list of common homographs.
		Below is a list of some of the most common words that are close in spelling but mean something quite different.
	www.translationsoftware4u.com /translation-from-english-to-spanish.htm (951 words)

	Word Meaning in Academic English: Homography in the Academic Word List -- Ming-Tzu and Nation 25 (3): 291 -- Applied ...
		the list which would not be there if their clearly different
		of the members of a homograph pair are reasonably frequent.
		Please note that abstracts for content published before 1996 were created through digital scanning and may therefore not exactly replicate the text of the original print issues.
	applij.oxfordjournals.org /cgi/content/abstract/25/3/291 (262 words)

	Homeschool Online - Homeschool English & Language Arts Links (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Dictionary of English: Clichés, Pretentious Language, and Jargon.
		Dolch Word List: A vocabulary list of over 220 common words used almost every day.
		Spelling Tips: A great list of activities to use when practicing your spelling words.
	www.thejubileeacademy.org /articles/homeschool_english_and_language_arts_links.html (1136 words)

	Word Play
		Lists from previous years are available in their archive to view or to print as a poster.
		Sponsored by the English Department at San Jose State University since 1982, the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest is a whimsical literary competition that challenges entrants to compose the opening sentence to the worst of all possible novels.
		English sayings and customs that we have grown up with and taken for granted were explained during the web page author's tour of the Anne Hathaway house in Victoria, British Columbia.
	www.wolinskyweb.net /word.htm (4506 words)

	Melanie Spiller
		As a native English speaker, this isn’t too hard, as by the time we’re adults, most of us have heard (or used) quite a few such words.
		English is full of words that sound or look the same and have different meanings.
		It’s probably because English is an amalgam of so many other languages (German, French, and Latin at the forefront) and they’ve been blended mercilessly.
	blogs.officezealot.com /spiller (6651 words)

	English Linguistics and Lanuage Links (Elizabeth J. Pyatt)
		English Practice.Com - Free lessons, chat rooms, pen pals and contests for ESL students.
		John Higgins Homographs and Heteronyms - Useful, yet agonizing demonstration of the inconsitencies of English spelling.
		Craven's Havens Homographs (Heteronyms) - These are words that are spelled the same, but pronounced differently.
	www.personal.psu.edu /staff/e/j/ejp10/region/english.html (1694 words)

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