{"id":21582,"date":"2017-05-22T14:37:36","date_gmt":"2017-05-22T14:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=21582"},"modified":"2017-05-22T14:37:36","modified_gmt":"2017-05-22T14:37:36","slug":"english-homonyms-or-homophones-illicit-vs-elicit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/english-homonyms-or-homophones-illicit-vs-elicit\/","title":{"rendered":"English:  homonyms (or homophones):  illicit vs elicit"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Tutoring English, homophones continue to be a favourite topic.  The tutor brings up the pair illicit and elicit.<\/h1>\n<p style=\"font-family:monospace;font-size:120%\">elicit (verb): to provoke a response.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family:monospace;font-size:120%\">illicit (adj):  illegal; non-permissible; purposely concealed (to avoid consequences).<\/p>\n<p>The difference (depending on which dictionary you read) between homonym and homophone I mention <a href=\"?p=7494\">in my Jan 2, 2015 post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p>Barber, Katherine, et al.  <i>Oxford Canadian Dictionary of Current English<\/i>.  Don Mills: Oxford University Press, 2005.<\/p>\n<p>Jack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tutoring English, homophones continue to be a favourite topic. The tutor brings up the pair illicit and elicit. elicit (verb): to provoke a response. illicit (adj): illegal; non-permissible; purposely concealed (to avoid consequences). The difference (depending on which dictionary you &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/english-homonyms-or-homophones-illicit-vs-elicit\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">English:  homonyms (or homophones):  illicit vs elicit<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[965,966,2329,1222],"class_list":["post-21582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","tag-homonyms","tag-homophones","tag-illicit-vs-elicit","tag-vocabulary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21582"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21590,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21582\/revisions\/21590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}