3. HOMONYMS
 The word homonym comes from the greek ὁμώνυμος
(homonumos), meaning "having the same name", which is
the conjunction of ὁμός (homos).
 A homonym is a world that has both the same
pronunciation & the same spelling as another, but is
etymologically unrelated to it.
 Traditionally, homonyms of this type are treated as
separate words and given distinct dictionary entries (e.g.,
‘pole1’ & ‘pole2’) whereas more closely related meanings
are treated as offshoots of the same word, which
historically speaking they are ( so ‘Each of the two
terminals of an electric cell or battery etc.’ comes under
‘pole 2’).
 Popularly, homonyms may or may not include pair whose
two world have the same meaning but do not belong to the
same grammatical category ( e.g. red, noun &n adjective).
 Loosely, homonym is something used for a world that has
either the same sound or the same spelling as another (
but not both ) .

4. Table 1: Lists common
Homonyms.
 Band: group of musicians, thin flat strip.
 Bank: side of river, organization providing financial services.
 Calf : a young cow, back part of leg.
 Coach: sports trainer, large carriage.
 Cross: symbol, be angry.
 Feet: part of body, unit of measure.
 Game: activity/sport with rules, wild animals/bird that are hunted.
 Horn: a device for making loud noise, on the heads of animals.
 Lie: untruth, lie down.
 Mole: animal, small mark on skin.
 Orange: fruit, color.

5. HOMOPHONES
 The word derives from the Greek homo- (ὁμο-), "same", and
phōnḗ (φωνή), "voice, utterance".
 A homophone is a word that is pronounced the same as another.
 This term is usually used for partial homonyms, which are
distinguished by both meaning and spelling. e.g., feat:feet,
no:know, none:nun, stare:stair.
 Some English pairs are homophones in same accents but not in
other, for e.g., saw:sore, pore:pour, wine:whine.
 The occurrence of homophones is largely a matter of historical
chance, in which words with distinct meaning come to coincide
phonologically: byre- a cowshed, buyer- one who buys.
 Words may be homophonous in in one variety of English but not
another : father/farther & for/four are homophonous in Received
Pronunciation but not in American English & Scottish English;
wails/wales are general homophonous ; wails/wales/whales are
homophones for many, but not in Irish English & Scottish
English. Whether/whither are homophones in Scotland , but not
whetherr/weather, which are homophones in England.

6. Table 2: Basic List Of
Homophones
1. Bin: dust bin, Been: have u been to
that place.
2. Coarse: flour is coarse, Course: the course of
a river.
3. Ear: my ear, Year: the year 2013.
4. Hear: I can hear, here: come here.
5. Its: its color is red, it’s: it’s red in color.
6. Know: I know , no: say no to someone.
7. Sea: the red sea, see: see the sky.
8. Tire: don’t tire me, tyre: car tyre.

7. Term Meaning Spelling Pronunciation
Homonym Different Same Same
Homograph Different Same Same or different
Homophone Different Same or different Same
Heteronym Different Same Different
Heterograph Different Different Same
Different but
Polyseme Same Same or different
related
Different when Same except for
Capitonym Same or
capitalized capitalization

8. Eponyms
 The word is back-formed from "eponymous",
from the Greek "eponymos" meaning "giving
name".
 An eponym is a person after whom something is
named, such as a building, an institution, an
organization, a machine, a product, or a process.

9. Example
 Diesel: Rudolf Diesel, German Engineer
 Pascal: Blaise Pascal, a French mathematician,
physicist, inventor, writer and Christian
philosopher

10. References
i. Technical Communication Principles And
Practice,
Meenakshi Raman,
Associate professor, Language Group,
Chief, Publication & Media Relations Unit
BITS, Pilani.
ii. http://en.wikipedia.org