[Lexicog] English homonyms

[Mali Translation]

Thanks, John, for your great list of homophones and homographs.

How about the following three examples?:

Time  flies like an arrow.
Fruit flies like a  banana.
Time  flies - you cannot - their flight is too erratic.

It would be interesting to know whether native or non-native
English speakers get the word plays more easily when listening
or when reading.

Fritz Goerling


John Roberts wrote:

There are hundreds more ... But I had a couple of (lexicographic) points.

1) While homographs are relatively easy to pick out of a standard English
dictionary, homophones are far more difficult to connect - even for the
native speaker.





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