{"id":19945,"date":"2025-06-06T07:25:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-06T14:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=19945"},"modified":"2025-05-14T10:43:35","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T17:43:35","slug":"words-seldom-seen-homophone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=19945","title":{"rendered":"Words Seldom Seen: Homophone"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Homophone<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Noun: A homophone<\/em> is a word that is pronounced the same as another word but differs in meaning or in spelling. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Example 0ne: Die and Dye<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Example Two: “The square root of a negative number is easier to calculate than rooting through roots to to find the route of old Route 66.” This example contains five homophones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pronunciation: Homophone <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

The entire trail up the lower part of Humpheys Peak is roots and dead falls. It is a flammable wilderness. Thanks to Bob K for indulging my first attempt at conquering this one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Homophone Noun: A homophone is a word that is pronounced the same as another word but differs in meaning or in spelling. Example 0ne: Die and Dye Example Two: “The square root of a negative number is easier to calculate than rooting through roots to to find the route of old Route 66.” This example […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19950,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-simon-says"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG_3242.jpeg?fit=1125%2C1500&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99jGb-5bH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19945"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19960,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19945\/revisions\/19960"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}