These are homographs that are not homophones. Also, several different spellings for any pronunciation and wildly differing meanings (homophones). Moreover, grammatical gender may serve to distinguish homophones. Because Chinese is replete in homophones phonetic elements may also carry semantic content. Homophones that are spelled differently are also called heterographs. A choice was made to replace the phonetic parts with homophones which had fewer strokes. Another type of wordplay used in cryptics is the use of homophones. Spell checkers do not detect incorrect use of homophones. This phonological collapse has led to a corresponding increase in the number of homophones. These are not homophones in Mandarin, but are homophones in Shanghainese. Note&colon; One should note that in Middle Chinese the words for and were homophones. See also the list of H-dropping homophones in Wiktionary. Both Japanese and Chinese homophones were examined. In the German language homophones occur in more than 200 cases. Among them&colon; Antony and the Johnsons, CocoRosie, The Homophones, Othon Mataragas and Ernesto Tomasini.