Homophone (noun) – a word that sounds the same as another word but has a different meaning, or a different spelling and meaning: The words “sow” and “sew” are homophones. Readers often wrote in to complain about homophones (complement, not compliment) and poor grammar.
- Homograph: Words that are spelled the same but have different meanings and often different pronunciations. “Bow” meaning the front of a ship, “bow” meaning a loop made in a string or ribbon, and “bow” meaning a device used to shoot arrows are all homographs.
- Eggcorn: A word or phrase that a person wrongly thinks is another word or phrase that sounds similar, for example “eggcorn” instead of “acorn”: Language Log mentions the eggcorn “wedding vowels” as a variant of “wedding vows”.
- Oxymoron: A figure of speech that combines two words or phrases that seem to be contradictory. The very notion of an entrepreneurial company man is an oxymoron. For most of the nineteenth century, scholars treated “medieval science” as an oxymoron.
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