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The world is a play of words - Part II : know about homophone, homographs, homonyms and oronyms

“Ice creammmmm”, Saddy shouted at top of his voice. We, the group of friends were out for a casual dinner outing on Sunday evening as Shyamlal, our cook and friend, took off on Sunday evenings. As soon as the discussion on desserts started, Saddy made his choice clear. All of us knew his weakness for chocolate ice cream already. I, in a mood of having some fun (and that is my default mood most of the time, especially when my besties are around), asserted, “I don’t think you scream much. But what’s wrong today?”. Few of us laughed on the lame joke that I cracked, and few gave the uninterested, ‘No, not again’ look on my PJ. But that has never stopped me from cracking the next one, even worse PJ. Has it? play of words “Ice cream” and ‘I scream”: two completely different phrases, but hear someone say it, and if you don’t know the context, it is difficult to know which one he means. Oronyms , as we refer such phrases, are the similar sounding but different phrases with differen