Hom³fono English is a word that is pronounced exactly just as another one but that it can be written differently and it has a different meaning completely.
There are many hom³fonos that we can find in the English language. We propose a list to you with most common.
How to study hom³fono English?
To study its articulation:
In addition, you can use Wordreference and to clicar in the symbol of the loudspeaker to see how it is pronounced.
It studies as they are written:
Here the difficulty comes. It studies each word to know how his meaning and thus to be able to recognize it quickly when you listen to it in a conversation. For example, If we listened to /miit/; quickly we will have two possibilities in our head meet= of knowing somebody for the first time /quedar with which already you know and meat= meat. Soon it identifies the context and quickly you will be able to know of what it is being spoken.
To correct articulation errors:
To recognize that hom³fono we pronounced it bad, is the first step to give account us of which there are two words that are pronounced equal. All your life you have pronuciado a word of an incorrect form and therefore it is difficult that you recognize it in a recording type listening. Therefore, to learn it will serve to you again enormously.
Listing of the hom³fonos in English
- Meat (meat) meet (to know).
- Weak (loose) week (week).
- It destroys (story) tail (tail of the animal).
- It beaches (simple) to bear (bear).
- Hi (hello) high (high).
- Waist (waist) waste (to squander).
- Hire (to contract) to higher (more stop).
- Air (air) to heir (inheriting).
- It ties (I ate) eight (eight).
- Band (band) banned (prohibited).
- They see (Jewish, string bean) - they been (been).
- Blew (blowing) blue (blue).
- Cereal (cereal) serial (series).
- Flew (I flew) flu (influenza).
- Flour (flour) to flower (flower).
- Hole (hole) whole (everything).
- Knows (it knows) not (nose).
- Made (done) mhelp (mhelp).
- Mail (mail) male (male).
- Role (paper, roll) roll (to coil).
- They are (son) sun (sun).
- Waist (waist) waste (to squander).
- Wait (to hope) weight (weight).
- Whose (of whom) who's (who is).
- Knew (it knew) new (new).
- Knot (naked) not (not).
- Network (red) read (I read).
- Buy (to buy) by (by) bye (goodbye).
- Find (to find) fined (fined).
- He is (sea) see (to see).
- Rode (I mounted) road (wagon).
- Scene (scene) they seen (seen).
- Jeans (Texan) genes (genes).
- Mind (mind) mined (mined).
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