Heterographic Homophones

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By pgn
@pgntwo (22408)
Derry, Northern Ireland
September 30, 2017 12:50pm CST
Something jolted a memory today, probably an automatic correction of someone misusing "youse" instead of "you", a common occurrence hereabouts. Before long, a newspaper-style headline was rattling around my head: Youse ewes use yews. Even though the first word comes from the local dialect, the successive words do not. As each word sounds the same as the one preceding it, all four are homophones of each other. Because each is spelled differently from the other, they are described as being "heterographic". Written as above, it also makes a kinda sense... I just thought I would share that with you all, as September rolls over into October.
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rebelann1949
@rebelann (111124)
• El Paso, Texas
30 Sep 17
Wow, I'd forgotten about all those different words that sound alike, I'm sure this isn't the only example, is it?
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pgn
@pgntwo (22408)
• Derry, Northern Ireland
30 Sep 17
I am sure there are lots more - care to try making one up?
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rebelann1949
@rebelann (111124)
• El Paso, Texas
30 Sep 17
Oh no you don't @pgntwo I'm not even gonna try to find something like this. I'd be at it for weeks.
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pgn
@pgntwo (22408)
• Derry, Northern Ireland
30 Sep 17
@rebelann Just thought I'd ask...
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topffer
@topffer (42156)
• France
1 Oct 17
Very good discussion ! Homophones are quite frequent in French, and they are written differently to avoid confusion. It is our Academy that fixes the orthograph of homophones.
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topffer
@topffer (42156)
• France
1 Oct 17
@pgntwo But we have a big advantage compared to English, it is the circumflex accent on 'i', 'u' and sometimes 'e' : this one does not imply a different pronunciation, and is very useful for homophones : apprêt/après, boîte/boite, gêne/gène, mûr/mur, sûr/sur, prêt/près, etc.
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pgn
@pgntwo (22408)
• Derry, Northern Ireland
1 Oct 17
I should imagine there are many more words in the French vocabulary that are homophones of each other, yes. I must go on a hunt, eau yes
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pgn
@pgntwo (22408)
• Derry, Northern Ireland
1 Oct 17
@topffer Eau has none? Hmm. Je dis qu'elle m'a dit "dix". Maybe not
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Fiacre Banks
@xFiacre (12589)
• Ireland
30 Sep 17
@pgntwo This is the kind of thing that lifts my spirits. The ambiguity of using you for both singular and plural often vexes me and I succumb to using "yous uns" for clarity. Nothing like a bit of homophonic heterographology on a Saturday night. Are we allowed to say that?l
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pgn
@pgntwo (22408)
• Derry, Northern Ireland
30 Sep 17
Homophonic heterographology sounds perfectly acceptable to me
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Ann LeFlore
@poehere (15126)
• French Polynesia
1 Oct 17
How cute and how funny plus very informative. Thanks for sharing this.
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pgn
@pgntwo (22408)
• Derry, Northern Ireland
1 Oct 17
Thank you.
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paigea
@paigea (35669)
• Canada
30 Sep 17
I love that!
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Darcy Nemo
@YrNemo (20261)
•
1 Oct 17
Never seen that word youse before, what is it supposed to mean?
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pgn
@pgntwo (22408)
• Derry, Northern Ireland
1 Oct 17
A dialect version of the second person plural "you" : I, you, he/she/it We, you (youse), they.
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Darcy Nemo
@YrNemo (20261)
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simplyme
@m_audrey6788 (58485)
• Germany
30 Sep 17
I don`t know things like this but thanks for the information
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simplyme
@m_audrey6788 (58485)
• Germany
2 Oct 17
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pgn
@pgntwo (22408)
• Derry, Northern Ireland
30 Sep 17
You're welcome!
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snowy
@snowy22315 (169828)
• United States
2 Mar 18
Youse seems to make it's way into poor speech everywhere!
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pgn
@pgntwo (22408)
• Derry, Northern Ireland
2 Mar 18
This is true. As does "of" when "have" is meant, alas.
DE
@DaddyEvil (137145)
• United States
8 Feb 18
Homophones, when the wrong one is used in a manuscript or, if not caught by the editor, in a published novel will drive me to distraction! I always wonder if the author would get upset or would be appreciative if I pointed it out to him/her... I KNOW, in my own case, I appreciate it when someone lets me know I've made a blunder like that. (Or tells me about any mistake I have made that is not a typo.) I've just finished reading a series? of books that are rife with such mistakes. I contacted the author and ask if she was interested in knowing about them... She told me that she doesn't MAKE mistakes in her writing. She further explained that if I was hoping to impress her so she would hire me to edit her manuscripts, I could kiss that thought good-bye! Personally, I don't try to impress people. Her reply DID upset me, though. I copied the first chapter from her first novel, corrected her mistakes and told her she needed to hire a professional editor since I refused to catch and correct any more mistakes... Or, she could continue to believe she knew everything while the world enjoyed a good laugh at her mistakes. I suggested a good copyright team and wished her good luck going forward. I've yet to find an author who didn't make mistakes. I know I can make mistakes, either from being in too much of a hurry to complete what I want to say or because I've forgotten something along the way...
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DE
@DaddyEvil (137145)
• United States
9 Feb 18
@pgntwo Stubborn/pigheaded sounds about right, pgn... I really don't understand people like that. But that author isn't the first who told me something like that, either. One person on Wattpad claimed she was an English major and I was mistaken, not her. (Pretty received a Bachelor's degree in English, so I ask her. She laughed and said the other person didn't know her own bunghole from a hole in the ground.) I did some research and discovered the person was a Junior in High School. I pasted her school record into the pm and told her she should really think hard before making claims that are easily checked. (It wasn't really easy to get her records, but I wasn't going to admit that.) I didn't offer to help her anymore but I did notice she changed the phrase I pointed out to her. SMH!
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pgn
@pgntwo (22408)
• Derry, Northern Ireland
8 Feb 18
You're too good for this world! Some people get very thran, being unable to take constructive criticism. Sad, really, but there we have it. Present company excepted, of course
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pgn
@pgntwo (22408)
• Derry, Northern Ireland
9 Feb 18
@DaddyEvil A bit like road rage drivers, some people shouldn't be allowed near a keyboard.
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paigea
@paigea (35669)
• Canada
30 Sep 17
So, that is where youse came from. Although my grandmother didn't say it.
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