The language corner: Voting is ‘choosing the best option’; throw away, ‘throw away’

These verbs belong to the group of homophones, as they have the same sound but different meanings. Writing with ve or be depends on the context and the communicative intention of the speaker.

According to the academic dictionary to vote it is ‘to cast a vote or express an opinion in an assembly or consultative body, or in an election of persons’. To throw It is equivalent to ‘throw, throw, throw someone or something’.

Other pairs of these lexical families are to vote And boat, to vote And boot, voted And bouncehomophones discussed below.

to vote is a verbal form of the verb to vote. Boat it’s a ‘hop that gives a ball’; also a ‘container for storing liquids or objects’. Other meanings include ‘little rowboat’, ‘prison or prison’, ‘bastard’ (not as a mean word, but referring to the male goat), ‘little tobacco leaf’.

To vote It has the meaning of ‘public or secret expression of a preference over an option’, ‘opinion or opinion’, ‘request or disapproval begging God for mercy’, etc. boot means ‘tall boot over the whole length’, ‘leather or hide for storing wine, oil or other liquids’. boot it is also something ‘blunt or pointless’; it also refers to someone who is “rude or stupid.”

voted is the ‘action and effect of voting’. dumped It is used with the meaning of ‘a generous, excellent, or wasteful person’; ‘socially and economically well-off person’; ‘something that has a very low price’; ‘discredited person’ It is also used to refer to something ‘perfect or extraordinary’.

Let’s consider that all writing requires attention to context, but this requirement takes it up a notch when homophones are used, as changing a letter can divert the course of the communicative intent.

SOURCES:

Spanish dictionary And Pan-Spanish dictionary of doubts (electronic versions), of the Royal Spanish Academy and the Association of Academies of the Spanish Language.

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