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EG: Bow as in what you put in your hair, and bow as in what you shoot an arrow with. These sound the same as well, so are also homophones. Bow as in 'bow down on one knee' and bow as in the front end of a boat are spelt the same as the first two but pronounced differently, so are just homographs.
Even though the thread has died, my point was that in Spanish there are two different types of /r/ sound which change the meaning, but that this doesn't exist in English with /r/.
I picked up a bit of an accent when I lived down south, even though I was only there a couple of months. I've still not lost the Estuary English (I think?) 'L' sound
Naaaah. I loved doing language at college, I did language and linguistics at uni before I dropped out and I'm doing English when I start again this year, but it's a bit more lit heavy. My college language teacher knew (or at least, seemed to know) everything there was to know, his enthusiasm must've been infectious and rubbed off on me.
Aye, that's the sound I'm on about. I kinda lost my northern /u/ as well, but I think I've got that back