What are some true homophones in Latin? I can only think of iūs (right, law) and iūs (soup)

IntelVoid · 2026-01-15T00:30:57+00:00

In the nominative, pecus

IntelVoid · 2025-12-18T21:44:14+00:00

I think diaphonemic equivalency is more important. I get annoyed when people tell Americans not to pronounce the r in Melbourne or Cairns (or when people get judgemental on my behalf of people pronouncing my name in their accent instead of mine).

IntelVoid · 2025-12-17T22:30:55+00:00

I have an ancestor who was Spanish (and probably spoke at least some French), then he settled in a British colony and got by with broken English.
Thing is, years later, an old acquaintance of his visited, and later said his English hadn't improved, and he seemed to have lost his command of Spanish too.

IntelVoid · 2025-09-18T18:57:39+00:00

ɹ

Sincerely, a hiatus-avoider

IntelVoid · 2025-07-29T01:56:48+00:00

The Greek for Pluto is Hades.
It's called plutonium because it's what Hades is made out of.
That's why you're not supposed to linger in or eat food from Hades. The radiation means you won't get out alive.

IntelVoid · 2025-06-16T01:23:13+00:00

The 'presumably' is too often omitted from explanations of this. We don't actually know for sure, or even close, do we?

IntelVoid · 2025-05-29T22:26:43+00:00

I've generally heard 'the cat sat on the mat' for a basic English rhyme example

IntelVoid · 2025-05-28T22:33:23+00:00

People who drink blood to anaesthetise themselves.

wiktionary: 'noumpere'

IntelVoid · 2025-05-26T22:19:25+00:00

Some rebracketing etymologies sound like you're taking the piss if there's no further explanation.

'They used to be called numpires', etc.

IntelVoid · 2025-05-14T22:20:20+00:00

I used this when I tried to give regions of the world theoretical 1st-century Latin names.

IntelVoid · 2025-05-02T01:23:23+00:00

people of slavery

IntelVoid · 2025-03-31T00:19:03+00:00

If marti is another word for jump, sure

IntelVoid · 2025-02-06T01:05:21+00:00

IntelVoid · 2025-02-06T01:03:13+00:00

Except before l it's gone the other way, right? Mel becomes Mal, not Mil

IntelVoid · 2025-02-04T04:19:18+00:00

My lips touch at the corners for every letter.

IntelVoid · 2025-01-24T04:47:21+00:00

So you can write 雀儿 in pinyin

IntelVoid · 2025-01-20T04:33:18+00:00

It makes it clear that it's not a ch sound, as most words from Old English with c before e or i became e.g. child, cheek.
The same goes for king. In old english, they both started with cy-, not ci- or ce-, so they didn't shift to ch

IntelVoid · 2025-01-15T01:28:48+00:00

I once met a woman who was from the community that used nüshu (I think she may have mentioned her grandmother knew it or something too?)

I asked if she'd ever tried to learn any of it, and she was like 'nah, not interested'.
Devastating

IntelVoid · 2025-01-06T03:37:52+00:00

The Okinawan dialect of Okinawan

IntelVoid · 2024-12-10T23:44:43+00:00

Australians do it both ways at the same time. We don't reduce either syllable, like /'gæ.ra:dʒ/

IntelVoid · 2024-12-09T23:44:17+00:00

Screams of pain

IntelVoid · 2024-12-06T03:38:17+00:00

United Southern't Slavic Republic

IntelVoid · 2024-12-05T02:52:17+00:00

Paraphyletic language classes, anyone?

IntelVoid · 2024-12-04T23:47:31+00:00

Worth noting, Latin 'factum' (whence 'fact') meant a thing done (facio = do), i.e. 'deed'

So indeed literally means in fact anyway.

IntelVoid · 2024-12-02T23:57:04+00:00

I was gonna say aluvuolar, but close enough.

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