Comic #7036: new-word

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NEW WORD DAY!

DYGRAHPOMOPHONE:
A homophone that looks like a misspelling, commonly used on purpose to trick someone online into correcting you.

• ACCIDENCE: Grammar related to inflection
• ANDROGENY: Creation of an embryo with genes only from the father
• BANNS: A public announcement of a wedding
• BRUME: Fog
• COIGN: A wedge-shaped stone used in architecture
• CLEW: A ball of thread
• HIGHT: To be called or named
• INDORSE: To formally endorse
• REDD: To tidy
• SOKE: A feudal right of jurisdiction
• SOOP: To sweep
• WALE: A stripe or ridge in fabric

EXAMPLE: “Here’s a clew: let’s make a wale pattern scarf to show we indorse their banns, then go to their place to soop and redd, unless it’s brume.”

[Source: smbc-comics.com]