Showing posts with label homonyms. Show all posts
Showing posts with label homonyms. Show all posts

Saturday, April 16, 2011

Imminent

Imminent means just about to happen, impending. It's an adjective, from Latin.

Emanent means prominant, outstanding. adjective, Latin, also.

Preemanent means emanant or superior. Just a bit better than emanent. Imminent and emanent are homonyms. I've got to check the spelling. It doesn't look right!

Stay tuned, more exciting emanent words and terms are imminent.

Monday, September 13, 2010

All's Well

Swell is an interesting word. I'm swelling with pride and sweltering with excitement.

As anjective I wonder if it is really a contraction, 's well, like All's well.

Monday, September 17, 2007

Peak experience

There are 2 peaks, or peeks. One is "peek," the other is "peak." One is a verb, to sneak a look at something, the other is the very top or pinnacle of a mountain. They sound the same. But are spelled differently. I think this is okay because the different spellings alert you to the different meanings. Don't you think it's confusing when one word with one spelling has several vastly different meanings? Or is the spelling of homophones more confusing or difficult to remember? Let me know what you think!

Homonyms sound the same and share the same spelling. Comes from Same Name in Greek, if you look at the prefix and root.
Homophones sound the same, but have different spellings! Comes from Same Sound in Greek.

So technically speaking, peek and peak are homophones.