![]() ![]() saxophone: instrument invented by Adolphe Sax.telephone: device which carries ‘sound’ over long distances.megaphone: device that makes a very big ‘sound’ when speaking into it.microphone: device that makes the small ‘sound’ of a voice louder.And homo phones are words that “sound” the same but mean different things and are usually spelled differently, such as “deer” and “dear,” and “sweet” and “suite.”Įnough “sounding” off about phon! Be happy that you didn’t have to listen to this on an old, scratchy phonograph record! The phonemes of the language are the different small pieces of “sound” that carry meaning. The discipline of phonetics deals with the “sounds” of words and speech. Linguists as well have made large use of the root phon when talking about the “sounds” made when speaking. All these instruments can either be eu phonious or good “sounding,” or they can make a caco phony, or horrible “sound” together. Many instruments which make “sound” together is a sym phony. The sousa phone was invented by John Philip Sousa, who wanted to create a tuba that members of a marching band could carry while making that big, deep tuba “sound.” A xylo phone makes its “sounds” by hitting a mallet on different lengths of wood. Music, as you might expect, has numerous words with the root phon in them, which means “sound.” A saxo phone, for instance, was an instrument that made a “sound” characteristic of what Adolphe Sax, its inventor, was trying to reproduce. The word phone itself was originally short for tele phone, a device which carries the “sound” of your voice over long distances. For instance, a micro phone helps your relatively small voice makes a larger “sound.” A mega phone makes the small “sound” of your voice very large. There are many devices humans use that emit and change sound. The Greek root word phon means “sound.” Let’s “sound” out the root word phon in the following podcast. ![]()
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