[Lexicog] Digest Number 416

[Simon Wickham-Smith]

Steve -


On 1 Sep 2005, at 21:35, lexicographylist at yahoogroups.com wrote:
> How about "Discouraged over their fifth place finish, the Finnish team
> headed home today."

yeah yeah.  Or - "Encouraged by their fourth place finish, the  
Finnish team strode forth today to a well-deserved plaice supper."   
Three so-called homophones.  I hear total homophony only in fourth/ 
forth.

It's prosody, isn't it?

Si
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