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Series and serious homonyms?



 
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Series and serious homonyms? #1 (permalink) Sun Mar 12, 2006 13:17 pm   Series and serious homonyms?		  
Hi, it just occurred to me that series and serious are pronounced the same way, that is, they are homonyms, right?
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Series and serious homonyms? #2 (permalink) Sun Mar 12, 2006 13:49 pm   Series and serious homonyms?		  
They're not pronounced the same way. Series is pronounced [sIri:z], and serious is pronounced [sIriy@s] (The character @ is supposed to indicate a schwa.) Series has two syllables, and serious has three.
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Series and serious homonyms? #3 (permalink) Mon Mar 13, 2006 3:04 am   Series and serious homonyms?		  
Also notice that "series" ends in a [z] sound, and "serious" ends in an [s] sound.
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