"Jennie Kermode" <"Jennie Kermode"@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> I can't answer this one.
> Donald says "Is there a word for when you have two words which
> have the same meaning, the same pronunciation, and a different
> spelling?" His example is 'tacit'/'tacet', which I'd pronounce
> differently myself, but his point is still an interesting one.
> Personally I figure that there's unlikely to be a metalinguistic term
> for something which only occurs in one instance. He can't think of any
> other examples offhand. Can any of you?
Yeah me calling me whiskey dave when I'm whisky dave !
I blame the Pope, yes all of them.
I know of some foreigners that have changed the spellings to
suit themselves. Americans are guilty of this
Through, thru being one example although I'm not sure it's that's
quite what you meant.
Or maybe a Homophone, or is that a gay mobile. :) or a heterograph.
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