Footnote: For a nearly complete list ofhomonyms in English see List of Homonyms at the end of Skeat's Etym.
The chief, and, for the present, insuperable obstacle to the use of Roman letters in writing Japanese, is the prodigious number of homonyms in the language.
My reader will be able to find many other homonyms in the lists of names given further on.
You may refer the pupils to the lists of homonyms which occur in the regular spelling lessons of the first five grades.
There are also reviewed 20 homonyms which commonly are confused by children of this grade.
Doublets and homonyms are of frequent occurrence, and the origin of some names is obscured by the well-meaning efforts of early philologists.
Of these I reproduce but two, which suffice, feeling convinced that Mr. Goodyear will be as interested as I was to hear that the ankh and lotus were homonyms of ankh=life.
Special attention is also drawn to the modes of expressing the syllable am by the homonyms boy or child, boat and tree (fig.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "homonyms" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
