Identity
The identity exponent is both simple and common: it has no phonological manifestation at all.
An example in English:
DEER + → deer
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Famous quotes containing the word identity:
“Let it be an alliance of two large, formidable natures, mutually beheld, mutually feared, before yet they recognize the deep identity which beneath these disparities unites them.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.”
—James Baldwin (1924–1987)
“All that remains is the mad desire for present identity through a woman.”
—Max Frisch (1911–1991)