{"id":141,"date":"2009-02-23T16:21:44","date_gmt":"2009-02-23T20:21:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/?p=141"},"modified":"2009-02-23T16:21:44","modified_gmt":"2009-02-23T20:21:44","slug":"homophones-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/homophones-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Homophones II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">In English we have words called <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/homophones\/\">homophones<\/a> (<em>homo <\/em>= same, <em>phone <\/em>= sound) like <em>bear<\/em> and <em>bare<\/em>, <em>idle<\/em> and <em>idol<\/em>, among many others. Spanish also has <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/homophones\/\">homophones<\/a> and, for the untrained ear, it can be somewhat difficult at first. We give you now some examples of words that have the same sound but are written differently.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">baca (luggage-rack) \u2013 vaca (cow)<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">bacilo (bacillus) \u2013 vacilo (I hesitate, I waver)<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">bar\u00f3n (baron) \u2013 var\u00f3n (male)<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">bello (beautiful) \u2013 vello (body hair)<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">grabar (to record) \u2013 gravar (to tax)<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">rebelarse (to rebel) \u2013 revelarse (to reveal oneself)<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">tubo (tube) \u2013 tuvo (he\/she had)<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">call\u00f3 (he was silent) \u2013 cay\u00f3 (he fell down)<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">halla (he finds) \u2013 haya (have \u2013 haber in subjunctive)<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">rallar (to grate food) \u2013 rayar (to scratch)<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">hola (hi, hello) \u2013 ola (wave)<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">hecho (past participle of hacer; deed, act) \u2013 echo (I throw)<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">hasta (until, up to) \u2013 asta (flagpole, bull horn)<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">In this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.clarin.com\/diario\/2006\/10\/02\/conexiones\/t-01282165.htm\">article <\/a>from Argentinean newspaper <em>El Clar\u00edn<\/em> you can find many of these words used in context.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">See you next time!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In English we have words called homophones (homo = same, phone = sound) like bear and bare, idle and idol, among many others. Spanish also has homophones and, for the untrained ear, it can be somewhat difficult at first. We give you now some examples of words that have the same sound but are written&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/homophones-ii\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[79],"class_list":["post-141","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-vocabulary","tag-homophones"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}