Associations to the word «Allophone»

Wiktionary

ALLOPHONE, noun. (phonetics) Any of two or more alternative pronunciations for a phoneme.
ALLOPHONE, noun. (Canada) A person whose mother tongue is neither English nor French.

Dictionary definition

ALLOPHONE, noun. (linguistics) any of various acoustically different forms of the same phoneme.

Wise words

It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.
Pythagoras