Correlate the homophone of the muscle to the first pair of words, and the first pair to the second pair.
The following will indicate one way in which you may proceed in memorising the attachments of the muscles of the back: (1) First make a homophone of the name of the muscle.
We have an occasional escape by using nay for no, since its homophone neigh is an unlikely neighbour; but that can serve only in one limited use of the word, and is no solution.
On the other hand, the substantive beam is an example of such a false homophoneas I include.
Homophone is strictly a relative term, but it is convenient to use it absolutely, and to call any word of this kind a homophone.
Such words are needed, and if a homophone were thus specialized in some department of life or thought, then a slight differential pronunciation would be readily adopted.
Footnote 1: Homophone is a Greek word meaning 'same-sounding', and before using the relative word in this double way I have preferred to make what may seem a needless explanation.
Burr# is, moreover, a bad homophoneand cannot neglect possible distinctions: the Oxford Dictionary has eight entries of substantives under burr.
