![]() Plot a route to the stadium to root for your team, who we hope does not lose in a rout. ( Rout is also a homophone of route when pronounced as \ROWT\). There is also the closely spelled rout that is occasionally mixed-up with both root and route. Homophones are words that sound the same but are spelled differently such being the case, root and route are sometimes confused in writing. In addition, root is a homophone of route (which can be pronounced \ROOT\ or \ROWT\). Homographs are words that are spelled alike but are different in meaning, derivation, or pronunciation-and generally they have their own entries in standard dictionaries. Uses of the verb root illustrated in the introduction belong to different homographs of the word. Constance Lindsay Skinner, The Tiger Who Walks Alone, 1927 Homophones and Homographs In the yard below the garden, just outside the palm fence at the back, a score of pigs and chickens rooted and pecked. ![]() ![]() Sports fans have something in common with plants and farm animals-they all "root." Sports fans root for their team (and sometimes remain rooted to their seats in shock after their team just got routed) plants root in soil pigs root-that is, dig with their snouts-for food (this root is applied to other animals, snouted or snoutless, as well-like chickens). There is also the word rout, meaning “defeat,” and is both a noun and verb pronounced \ROWT. There are four distinct words spelled root in the dictionary, beginning with the noun meaning “the anchoring part of a plant” and its related verb meaning “to grow and develop roots.” Another is the verb meaning “to turn up or dig in the earth” or “to poke or dig about.” Finally, root can be used to mean “to cheer” or “to wish the success of something.” Route is a noun meaning “a road or highway” or “a course or line of travel” and a verb meaning “to send or direct to a specific path.” Both of these words can be pronounced either \ROOT\ or \ROWT. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
Details
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |