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[Laurence Horn]

At 7:03 PM +0000 2/19/07, Orion Montoya wrote:
>Or if you'd prefer opacity, how about Homoiophones?
>
>O.

Hmmm...I take it that's the prefix of "hom(o)eopathic" and
"homeostasis"?  Besides yielding an admirable opacity, that would
have the nice effect of yielding "homophone" and "homeophone" as a
lovely pair of homeo- (but of course not homo-) phones (as well as
homeonyms and homeographs).

LH

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>On 2/19/07, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
>>You probably aren't interested in "near-homophones", which I've
>>certainly encountered, but it does have the advantage of transparency.
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