Hear - here
From Hull AWE
Hear and here form one of the sets of homophones listed by the then Poet Laureate Robert Bridges.
(For more, see Bridges homophones). AWE has a category listing our articles on each of these..
- Hear is a verb, meaning 'to perceive sound' [via the ears]. For more on hear, go to hear.
- Here, in current English, is only an adverb of place, meaning 'in this place', etc.
- For a group of related spellings which all end in the four letters ...here, go to Here - there - where.