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From: robert@hpfcnml.UUCP (robert)
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Subject: homonymns vs homophones
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Date: Mon, 7-Jan-85 12:16:00 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan  7 12:16:00 1985
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Nf-From: hpfcnml!robert    Jan  7 09:16:00 1985

In school sets of words such as "sent" and "scent" were called
homonymns.  I have been corrected and told that these are
homophones.  I have looked up the definition and the dictionary
agrees.  It still bothers me that I have old school text books
that refer to it as a homonymn.  Has the definition changed?
Is the school book wrong?  Is the common usage different from
the dictionary's?  What do the linguists out there have to say?

			thanks
				Robert (animal) Heckendorn
				hplabs!hpfcla!robert