http://jhunterj.com/2013/12/21/throwing-in-the-vowel/ J. Hunter Johnson—I'm just this geek you (should) know. Tue, 06 Jan 2015 15:42:31 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.40 http://jhunterj.com/2013/12/21/throwing-in-the-vowel/#comment-1978 Thu, 26 Dec 2013 15:28:44 +0000 http://jhunterj.com/?p=501#comment-1978 […] the way the letters we use can affect the way we think about sounds (in the recent “Throwing in the Vowel” post), the pronunciations we use can affect the way we think about words. Check out Going Nucular: […]

]]> http://jhunterj.com/2013/12/21/throwing-in-the-vowel/#comment-1973 Sun, 22 Dec 2013 12:06:47 +0000 http://jhunterj.com/?p=501#comment-1973 Getting back to the -emes, you can mix-and-match sets of things that match. Two words that have matching phonemes but different graphemes and different sememes are heterographs (e.g., “one” and “won”). You might also have called them homonyms or homophones, but sometimes those are used to indicate slightly different relationships. Two words that have matching sememes but different phonemes and different graphemes are synonyms (e.g., “loyal” and “faithful”). Two words that have matching graphemes but different phonemes and different sememes are heteronyms (e.g., “does”, the plural of “doe”, and does, the third-person singular of “do”).

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