Discussion Groups / ESL Teaching / September 2004

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I have seen that the definition of the verb "succeed" is "do what one is
trying to do" in  both the dictionaries of Oxford and Longman. And I was
puzzled absolutely.
Why?

Hi friends,
In this link: http://www.uiowa.edu/~acadtech/phonetics/about.html
you will see there are 15 vowels in American English.
In this link: http://www.ic.arizona.edu/~lsp/IPA/SSAE.html

What is the term which means that two words sound the same but are spelled
differently (here and hear, there and their, hour and our, etc.)?