Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: notesfiles Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!hp-pcd!hpfcnml!robert From: robert@hpfcnml.UUCP (robert) Newsgroups: net.nlang Subject: homonymns vs homophones Message-ID: <11900002@hpfcnml.UUCP> Date: Mon, 7-Jan-85 12:16:00 EST Article-I.D.: hpfcnml.11900002 Posted: Mon Jan 7 12:16:00 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 14-Jan-85 03:46:34 EST Lines: 11 Nf-ID: #N:hpfcnml:11900002:000:502 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