{"id":35581,"date":"2018-08-19T21:49:57","date_gmt":"2018-08-19T21:49:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=35581"},"modified":"2018-08-19T21:49:57","modified_gmt":"2018-08-19T21:49:57","slug":"more-homonyms-or-homophones-symbol-and-cymbal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/more-homonyms-or-homophones-symbol-and-cymbal\/","title":{"rendered":"More homonyms (or homophones): symbol and cymbal"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Tutoring English, homonyms can be a favourite topic. The tutor brings up the pair symbol and cymbal.<\/h2>\n<p style=\"font-family:monospace;font-size:130%;margin-bottom:16px\">\ncymbal: a metallic percussion instrument associated with drums and struck to make a hissing &#8220;crash&#8221; sound.\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family:monospace;font-size:130%;margin-bottom:16px\">\nsymbol: a word that means something other than its literal meaning; also, a pictograph.\n<\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p>Gilmour, Lorna (editor). <em>Collins Essential Canadian English Dictionary and Thesaurus<\/em>. Glasgow: HarperCollins Publishers, 2006.<\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tutoring English, homonyms can be a favourite topic. The tutor brings up the pair symbol and cymbal. cymbal: a metallic percussion instrument associated with drums and struck to make a hissing &#8220;crash&#8221; sound. symbol: a word that means something other &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/more-homonyms-or-homophones-symbol-and-cymbal\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">More homonyms (or homophones): symbol and cymbal<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-35581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35581","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=35581"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35583,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35581\/revisions\/35583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}