{"id":291,"date":"2010-04-26T15:05:03","date_gmt":"2010-04-26T15:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/?p=291"},"modified":"2010-04-26T15:05:03","modified_gmt":"2010-04-26T15:05:03","slug":"homophones-same-sound-different-spelling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/homophones-same-sound-different-spelling\/","title":{"rendered":"Homophones: same sound, different spelling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Homophones (same sound) are words that have the same sound and sometimes are written with a little difference in spelling. To know which word the person is talking about you need to rely on the context.<\/p>\n<p>So, today let&#8217;s take a look at some common words that take on different meanings if you change one letter.<\/p>\n<p>agito &#8211; verb agitar, to shake<br \/>\najito &#8211; diminutive of ajo (garlic)<\/p>\n<p>Gir\u00f3n &#8211; last name<br \/>\njir\u00f3n &#8211; shreds<\/p>\n<p>ablando &#8211; verb ablandar (to soften)<br \/>\nhablando &#8211; verb hablar (to speak)<\/p>\n<p>ala &#8211; wing<br \/>\nhala &#8211; interjection<\/p>\n<p>aremos &#8211; verb arar in the future (to plough)<br \/>\nharemos &#8211; verb hacer in the future (to do or to make)<\/p>\n<p>asta &#8211; flagpole<br \/>\nhasta &#8211; until, to<\/p>\n<p>desecho &#8211; waste<br \/>\ndeshecho &#8211; undone<\/p>\n<p>errar &#8211; to make mistakes<br \/>\nherrar &#8211; to shoe (a horse)<\/p>\n<p>ojear &#8211; to take a look<br \/>\nhojear &#8211; to leaf through (a book)<\/p>\n<p>uso &#8211; use<br \/>\nhuso &#8211; spindle<\/p>\n<p>espiar &#8211; to spy<br \/>\nexpiar &#8211; to suffer<\/p>\n<p>baca &#8211; luggage-rack<br \/>\nvaca &#8211; cow<\/p>\n<p>bacilo &#8211; bacillus<br \/>\nvacilo &#8211; verb vacilar (to hesitate)<\/p>\n<p>basto &#8211; coarse<br \/>\nvasto &#8211; vast<\/p>\n<p>rebelar &#8211; to rebel<br \/>\nrevelar &#8211; to develop (photos)<\/p>\n<p>Esto es todo por hoy. Nos vemos prontito.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Homophones (same sound) are words that have the same sound and sometimes are written with a little difference in spelling. To know which word the person is talking about you need to rely on the context. So, today let&#8217;s take a look at some common words that take on different meanings if you change one&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/homophones-same-sound-different-spelling\/\">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":[79,358369],"class_list":["post-291","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-vocabulary","tag-homophones","tag-vocabulary"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291","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=291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}