Leksikoloogia konspekt (uus)
38. Homophones
One or more words that are identical in sound but have a different spelling and meaning.
o beer/bier, there/their/they're.
The occurrence of homophones is largely a matter of historical chance, in which words
with distinct meanings come to coincide phonologically: byre a cowshed, buyer one who
buys.
Words may be homophones in one variety of English but not another: father/farther and
for/four are homophonous in RP, but not in AmE and ScoE; wails/Wales are general
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homophones; wails/Wales/whales are homophones for many, but not in IrE and ScoE.
Whether/whither are homophones in Scotland, but not whether/weather, which are
homophones in England.
39. Homographs
A kind of homonym, two or more words which are spelled the same, but differ in origin,
annaabi.ee 
