homophone

Maybe it’s not surprising that someone who named her nursery using a provocative homophone would advocate a bit of daring.

Students in the small, remote community of Estancia, N.M., were enthusiastically engaged in a vocabulary lesson, enunciating words with a “bossy r,” as well as homophones and homonyms, and spelling them on white boards.

But the WHO decided a homophone for “new” would be too confusing.

When the principal calls her Melanie, Wang’s heroine adopts three of her Mandarin name’s homophones: Mist, who can be invisible; Basket, carrier of her parents’ dreams; and Blue, her truest self.

It is a homophone for “heart” and “new.”