FW: a word/

[Charles Doyle]

And, for short, we could just call all those words that look or sound alike "homeys."

--Charlie
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---- Original message ----
>Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 14:18:15 -0500
>From: Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU>
>Subject: Re: FW: a word/

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