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38 "... the Japanese people have a great number of homonyms..."
"In linguistics, a homonym is one of a group of words that share the same spelling and the
same pronunciation but have different meanings. Some sources only require that homonyms
share the same spelling or pronunciation (in addition to having different meanings).
Examples of homonyms are stalk (which can mean either part of a plant or to follow
someone around), bear (animal) and bear (carry), left (opposite of right) and left (past tense
of leave). Some sources also consider the following trio of words to be homonyms, but
others designate them as "only" homophones: to, too and two (actually, to, to, too, too and
two, being "for the purpose of" as in "to make it easier", the opposite of "from", also,
excessively, and "2", respectively). The word "homonym" comes from the conjunction of the
Greek prefix homo- (meaning same) and suffix -onym (meaning name). Thus, it refers to two
or more distinct words sharing the "same name"."
-- Reference: Wikipedia.org
39 "...standard Chinese characters..."
"A Chinese character or Han character (simplified Chinese: ; traditional Chinese: ;
pinyin: Hànzì) is a logogram used in writing Chinese, Japanese, sometimes Korean, and
formerly Vietnamese. The number of Chinese characters contained in the Kangxi
dictionary is approximately 47,035, although a large number of these are rarely used
variants accumulated throughout history. Studies carried out in China have shown that full
literacy requires a knowledge of between three and four thousand characters.
In the Chinese writing system, each character corresponds to a single spoken syllable. A
majority of words in all modern varieties of Chinese are poly-syllabic and thus require two or
more characters to write. Cognates in the various Chinese languages/dialects which have
the same or similar meaning but different pronunciations can be written with the same
character. In addition, many Chinese characters were adopted according to their
meaning by the Japanese and Korean languages to represent native words,
disregarding pronunciation altogether."
-- Reference: Wikipedia.org
40 "...McGuffey's Eclectic Readers..."
"McGuffey's Eclectic Readers were written by William Holmes McGuffey who began
teaching school at the age of 14. He was a professor of ancient languages at Miami
University from 1826 until his resignation in 1836. He then served as president of Cincinnati
College (1836-1839) and Ohio University (1839-1843). Returning to Cincinnati, McGuffey
taught at Woodward College from 1843 until 1845, when he became a professor of moral
philosophy at the University of Virginia. He was ordained as a Presbyterian minister in 1829.
It was during his years at Miami when McGuffey was approached to write a series of readers
for school children. In addition to the work done on these by William Holmes McGuffey, he
was assisted by his brother, Alexander Hamilton McGuffey, who also compiled a speller and
had sole responsibility for the Fifth Reader. Alexander taught school while working on his law
degree and opened a law office in Cincinnati in 1839. The McGuffey Readers sold over
125,000,000 copies.
McGuffey became a "roving" teacher at the age of 14, beginning with 48 students in a one
room school in Calcutta, Ohio. The size of the class was just one of several challenges faced
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