User:Jnestorius/ventrigraphism

"Ventrigraphism" is for writing what "ventriloquism" is for speaking. A letter changes in one place but the sound changes in a different segment of the word.

Morphological examples

w:Silent E in some irregular verbs:

• bite>bit
• hide>hid

Cuter:

• prophecy>prophesy
• woman>women
• leaped>leapt
• Maria/Mariah
• Grenada/Granada

Near miss:

• diocese>dioceses

Homographs

• Initial-stress-derived nouns
• read (present, past)
• multiply (verb, adverb)
• analyses (noun, verb)

Homophones

• practice, practise
• nous -us / adjective -ous
  • calculus/calculous
  • callus/callous
  • cirrus/cirrous
  • citrus/citrous
  • estrus/estrous and oestrus/oestrous
  • mucus/mucous
  • phosphorus/phosphorous
  • susurrus/susurrous
  • tumulus/tumulous
  • villus/villous
• populace/populous
• precisian/precision
• sailer/sailor