Confusions within six types of phonemes in an oral-visual system of communication /
Cletus G. Fisher · OhioLink ETD Center (Ohio Library and Information Network) · 1963
Alexander Graham Bell Introduced the words homonym and homophone to educators of the deaf in America in a series of lectures in Worcester, Massachusetts, in 187^*^ Homonym denoted words that, when spoken, appear V , Deland, The Story of Lip-Reading (Washington, D, C,: The Volta Bureau, 1931)* p* 18* alike to the eye: not, nod, don, tot, etc*; homophone, words that are pronounced in the same manner but spelled differently: rain, rein, reign*. . .Later Bell used the word homophenous, a word that is now applied to both homonyms and homophones* Edward Nitchie believed that homophenous words resulted from the inclusion of homophenous sounds: The fact that the sounds in certain consonant groups have the same visible movements gives rise to a considerable body of homophenous words, that is, words that appear alike on the lips.2^E.B. Nitchie, Lip-Reading Principles and Practise [sic] (New York: Fredrick A. Stokes Co., 1930)» PP* 175-176* 1