[Lexicog] Homophone dictionary by Cameron Townsend

Tue Jun 21 14:50:44 UTC 2005

Dear Rudy,

Is Handbook of Homophones by William Cameron Townsend available on the
web, or it is published as a booklet?

How one can get access to this dictionary?

Do you know that in medieval Arabic and Hebrew homophones [Arab.
Djinaas; Hebrew tsimmudim] and other types of homonyms were a special
subject of study for use in poetry as rhyming words. However I do not
recollect dictionaries of homophones for these two languages.

Best regards,

Dr. Hayim Y. Sheynin
Adjunct Professor of Jewish Literature
Gratz College
7605 Old York Rd.
Melrose Park, PA 19027

Tel.: 215 635-7300 x 161
Fax: 215 635-7320
email: hsheynin at gratz.edu
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Subject: [Lexicog] Homophone dictionary by Cameron Townsend

There was a discussion some time back about homophones, and I meant to
mention then but didn't have the time, that "Uncle Cam", William
Cameron Townsend, once compiled a small Handbook of Homophones, as a
hobby among his many other more significant accomplishments. I suspect
that even most SILers are not aware of that, but I thought that it
should be mentioned here. Recognizing that it was not of the heavy-duty
linguistic nature of most SIL publications, he asked me while I was
director of the Center for Applied Linguistics whether CAL would be
willing to support its publication. We agreed, and he arranged for the
publication himself. It is really quite a useful compilation, but has
had little publicity.

	Rudy Troike

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