Re: I want to get document for similar pronounced english words.

Default User wrote:

the Omrud wrote:

When I was a kid, the school teachers used "homonyms" to mean things
that were spelled differently but pronounced the same. Nowadays, I
understand the preference is to call those "homophones" and use
"homonyms" to mean words that are spelled and pronounced the same but
are completely distinct, like the two forms of "rare".

It does make sense, but still it's a little hard on me.

WIWAL, we only spoke of homophony in our music lessons.

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