The Greek root word phon means “sound.” This word root is the word origin of a number of English vocabulary words, including microphone, phone, and saxophone. An easy way to remember that phon means “sound” is through the word symphony, which is many instruments making a “sound” together.
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cacophonous
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Mrs. Ward
Hello Mrs Ward,
ReplyDeleteCould we get a link back to the original source for this? The page at http://membean.com/wrotds/phon-voice not only has a nice tree that goes along with this but a short interesting podcast as well.
It's awesome that you are having your students learn our roots at regular intervals! If you'd like to use Membean formally in your class we'll be glad to work with you on this.
--Ragav Satish
--Founder, Membean Inc
http://membean.com
Holy Cow! wait......how did he get on this page? Ragav Satish...hmmm...sounds...Indian(country)
ReplyDeleteI don't mean to be mean.
It is just an...interesting name.