FW: a word/

[Laurence Horn]

At 3:19 PM -0500 2/19/07, Charles Doyle wrote:
>And, for short, we could just call all those words that look or
>sound alike "homeys."
>
>--Charlie

Safer than calling 'em "homeos".

LH

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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?
>>>
>>>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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