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**Title:** Exploring Linguistic Similarities: Homonyms, Homographs, Homophones, and More
**Key Topics:**
1. **Similar Word Categories:**
* **Synonyms:** Different words, same meaning (e.g., "Buy" and "Purchase")
* **Homographs:** Same spelling, different meaning (e.g., "Bank" and "Bank")
* **Homophones:** Same sound, different spelling and meaning (e.g., "Blue" and "Blew")
* **Homonyms:** Same spelling and sound, different meaning (e.g., "Skate" and "Skate")
2. **Nuances:**
* **Heterographs:** Different spelling, same sound (e.g., "To", "Too", and "Two")
* **Heterophones:** Same spelling, different sound (e.g., "Tear" and "Tear")
* **Polysemous:** Multiple related meanings for a single word
* **Visemes:** Words with different meanings, sounds, and spellings but similar lip movements (e.g., "Pet", "Bell", and "Men")
3. **Additional Concepts:**
* **Antonyms:** Words with opposite meanings (e.g., "Hot" and "Cold")
* **Autoantonyms:** Words with contradictory meanings (e.g., "Off", "Left", and "Wind up")
Here are the key facts extracted from the text, numbered and in short sentences:
**Linguistic Concepts**
1. **Synonyms**: Words with the same meaning, different pronunciation, and different spellings (e.g., "Buy" and "Purchase").
2. **Poecilonym** (pronounced pe-cil-onym): An outdated word for "synonym".
3. **Homographs**: Words that are spelled the same but have different meanings and/or sounds (e.g., "Bank" and "Bank").
4. **Heterophones**: Words that are spelled the same but have different sounds and meanings (e.g., "Tear" and "Tear").
5. **Homophones**: Words that sound the same but have different meanings and/or spellings (e.g., "Blue" and "Blew").
6. **Visemes**: Words that have different meanings, are spelled differently, and sound different but are lip-readable in the same way (e.g., "Pet", "Bell", and "Men").
7. **Antonyms**: Words with opposite meanings (e.g., "Hot" and "Cold").
8. **Autoantonyms**: Words that can also mean the opposite of one of their meanings (e.g., "Off", "Left").
**Specific Word Examples**
9. "Blue" (color) and "Blew" (past tense of "blow") are homophones.
10. "Barbecue" and "Barbeque" are spelling variants.
11. "Diarrhoea" (UK) and "Diarrhea" (US) are spelling variants.
12. "Bank" can refer to a financial institution or a riverbank.
13. "Skate" can refer to gliding on ice or a type of fish.
14. "Tear" can mean to rip or a drop of liquid (e.g., a tear in the eye).
15. "Record" can refer to a document or a vinyl/music recording.
**Miscellaneous**
16. The McGurk Effect is an audio illusion related to lip movements and sound.
17. Anagraphs are words that share letter pieces, but not letters (invented by Tom 7).