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homophones

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n. (plural of homophone English)

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"Homophones" is a word game in which a player creates a sentence or phrase containing a pair or larger set of homophones , substitutes another (usually nonsensical) pair of words for the homophone pair, then reads the newly created sentence out loud. The ...

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It usually had a separate cipher alphabet with homophones and a codelike list of names, words, and syllables.

This is of very low redundancy because of the more even use of letters, the greater freedom in combining them, the suppression of frequencies by the use of homophones, and so on.

If so, the abundance of homophones in the Chinese language may have had a large impact on the role of literacy in Chinese society, yet it seems unlikely that there was anything in the Chinese environment selecting for a language rich in homophones.