What do we refer to a two different spelling together?
If you are willing to go back, many words have alternative spellings with the same pronunciation. Take the fishy spelling of ‘The Compleat Angler/The Passagemaker’, for example. But some modern words have two differing spellings pronounced alike. For example, the spelling of auditor and controller is used. In The Way We Live Now, Anthony Trollope has two characters say victuals and one says vittles. Do not confuse homonyms with homonyms because the spelling is unique to each word in the spelled alphabet?
In saying, “two quite different spellings,” I am trying to eliminate spelling variants such as today vs. tomorrow. Is colour a cougar of color? If the first paragraph or an example is complete color, then where is it associated with compleat? In pairs of the two spellings everything goes together except for the spelling (because it is possible to distinguish two spellings together) on the handwriting. And yes, it is the same for vills vs. lybes. Are the virtues of a hiccup compared to the experience of a doctor? Can hiccough be about controller versus comptroller? Some people (not me) don’t pronounce last pair alike. When I see a wrong question and I can’t answer it, I do believe it is in the same spirit as the one above. It is misleading. If a word isn’t in the English language, all that can be said is that even word I’m considering have extreme spelling variants, this is an example of this.
I believe this could be considered a cognate within the same language. Your controller or supervisor example makes it even more interesting, as it then becomes a cognate within the same language, but of two different
national dialects.
If a word has the same pronunciation as one or more other words but has different spelling or meaning, is called a homophone name, because it’s meant by the same person, is in fact a homophone name?
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There are inherently two forces in action:
the phenomenon of etymological doublets and differences in phono-orthographic spellings due either to a social or inter-linguistic transliteration. Concerning the first, consider the doublets, ’emergency’, and ’emergence’. The two have a transparent etymology dating to the Latin etymon Emergere – to give light to/appear. What are the meanings of two words differently. One expression of ’emergentia’ denotes an exigent matter coming to light.
What do you think is the exemplar you raised regarding comptroller and controller, both are inherently emerge from the same Latin root? The demarcation arises when one considers ‘comptroller’ a portmanteau of the French verb ‘compter’, to count and ‘controlere’, to control. They are not homonyms, and this phrase implies that the two have the same orthography but differing meanings, nor homophones in the respective languages.
I believe this could be considered a cognate within the same language. Your controller or supervisor example makes it even more interesting, as it then becomes a cognate within the same language, but of two different
national dialects.
In your question you specify that they’re pronounced the same, and then specify that they are NOT pronounced the same. So I’m unsure which you mean.
Why are there some characters that are pronounced differently? Those are synonyms and some have no meaning. I like the notion of using a synonym. Spelling variations on essentially the same word (different spelling, but same pronunciation and definition) would be alternate spellings, not unlike color/colour.
In your question you specify that they’re pronounced the same, and then specify that they are NOT pronounced the same. So I’m unsure which you mean.
Why are there some characters that are pronounced differently? Those are synonyms and some have no meaning. I like the notion of using a synonym. Spelling variations on essentially the same word (different spelling, but same pronunciation and definition) would be alternate spellings, not unlike color/colour.
There are inherently two forces in action:
the phenomenon of etymological doublets and differences in phono-orthographic spellings due either to a social or inter-linguistic transliteration. Concerning the first, consider the doublets, ’emergency’, and ’emergence’. The two have a transparent etymology dating to the Latin etymon Emergere – to give light to/appear. What are the meanings of two words differently. One expression of ’emergentia’ denotes an exigent matter coming to light.
What do you think is the exemplar you raised regarding comptroller and controller, both are inherently emerge from the same Latin root? The demarcation arises when one considers ‘comptroller’ a portmanteau of the French verb ‘compter’, to count and ‘controlere’, to control. They are not homonyms, and this phrase implies that the two have the same orthography but differing meanings, nor homophones in the respective languages.
There are inherently two forces in action:
the phenomenon of etymological doublets and differences in phono-orthographic spellings due either to a social or inter-linguistic transliteration. Concerning the first, consider the doublets, ’emergency’, and ’emergence’. The two have a transparent etymology dating to the Latin etymon Emergere – to give light to/appear. What are the meanings of two words differently. One expression of ’emergentia’ denotes an exigent matter coming to light.
What do you think is the exemplar you raised regarding comptroller and controller, both are inherently emerge from the same Latin root? The demarcation arises when one considers ‘comptroller’ a portmanteau of the French verb ‘compter’, to count and ‘controlere’, to control. They are not homonyms, and this phrase implies that the two have the same orthography but differing meanings, nor homophones in the respective languages.
