Everybody wants to be like ewe

Everybody wants to be like ewe

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Just a small reminder:
🐑Homophones - "you" and "ewe", same pronunciation but different meanings
🐑Homographs - same spelling, different pronunciations (wind noun vs. wind verb). cat noun and cat verb...
🐑Homonyms (broad sense) umbrella term covering same-sound and/or same-spelling pairs

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🐑Oronyms: phrases that sound alike — “ice cream” / “I scream”.
🐑Homographs: same spelling, different meanings — lead (metal) / lead (guide)
🐑Heteronyms: same spelling, different pronunciations and meanings — wind (noun) / wind (verb).
🐑Capitonyms: meaning (and sometimes pronunciation) changes with capitalization — Polish / polish, March / march.
🐑Heterographs: different spellings for words in a pair — you/ewe
🐑Polysemy: one word with related senses — head (of a person, of a department)
🐑Auto-antonyms (contronyms/Janus words): one word with opposite meanings — sanction (“approve” / “penalize”)

Mishearings

🐑Mondegreen: misheard lyric — “’Scuse me while I kiss this guy” for “kiss the sky.”
🐑Eggcorn: plausible but wrong substitution — “for all intensive purposes” for “intents and purposes.”
🐑Malapropism: wrong word, similar sound — “dance the flamingo” for flamenco.
🐑Spoonerism: swapping sounds — “You have hissed all my mystery lectures.”