Your "White Flight" Story

[archfan]

A homonym is two words that sound alike that are spelled differently and have different meanings. IE "pair, pare, pear" or "two, too, to". White Flight is more like Cockney rhyming slang

If that's the case, what's the rhyme - fright?

[jcole]

If that's the case, what's the rhyme - fright?

White rhymes with Flight.

[archfan]

White rhymes with Flight.

Here's info on Cockney rhyming slang. Trouble-and-strife is substituted for wife. Dog-and-bone is substituted for telephone. So what would white-flight be a substitute for?

[jcole]

Here's info on Cockney rhyming slang. Trouble-and-strife is substituted for wife. Dog-and-bone is substituted for telephone. So what would white-flight be a substitute for?

Ok, then it's not like anything but a rhyme; it's definitely not a homonym.