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From: stevemac@bud.indirect.com (Pascal MacProgrammer)
Subject: I scream for ice cream
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Date: Sat, 21 Jan 1995 11:14:33 GMT
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Not so very long ago, HCANNON@macalstr.edu said...

>I'm doing a project for my Acoustic Phonetics Class that has to do with 
>figuring out how we differentiate two phrases made of the same phonemes... 
>such as "I scream" and "ice cream."  Is there a list somewhere of similar 
>phrases?

  Such phrases are called "holorhymes" (but possibly spelled "holorimes"),
and I read about them sometime in the last couple of years.  It may have 
been in "Scientific American".  The article said that homorhyming poems 
are a word-game that has some popularity in France, and it listed a poem 
of five or six holorhyming couplets (in French), and a couple of complete 
sentences in English.  All I remember is one of the shorter phrases:

  "Isle of view"
  "I love you"

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