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British and American Homophones
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spinney
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British and American Homophones
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I �ve been trying to come up with some homophone/heterograph activities for our academy but I �ve noticed that what may be a homophone for British (received pronunciation) is sometimes not the case for American English and vice versa. This usually results in the American teachers raising their eyebrows and giggling at British accents while the Irish teacher just looks on with an odd smile on his face. As such, I �ve decided to do an activity that distinctly shows different homophones across the pond (problem being that the US is enormous and it �s generally a bad idea to suggest that pronunciation is homogeneous). For example, in received pronunciation "aren �t" is pronounced the same as "aunt." Whereas in the US "aunt" is more like "ant." Received pronunciation has "court" and "caught" sharing the same pronunciation but in the States we have "caught" and "cot." Can any of you help me add to the list? or are there more lists out there somewhere that will help save me a whole heap of time and effort? |
16 May 2012
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Pierreroset
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http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/writing/homofone.htm
http://www.anglaisfacile.com/exercices/exercice-anglais-2/exercice-anglais-4703.php
http://www.englishclub.com/pronunciation/homophones-list.htm
http://www.learnenglish.de/homophones/Homophones.htm
http://esl.about.com/od/engilshvocabulary/a/hom_a_e.htm
Hope it �s useful. Good luck ! |
16 May 2012
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aliciapc
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Another one, spinney : www.homophone.com alicia |
16 May 2012
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