👉 The term "telial" is a term in linguistics that refers to a linguistic phenomenon where words are spelled or pronounced differently depending on the context. This can occur when speakers of different languages use different ways of writing, spelling, or pronouncing certain sounds. For example, in English, the word "cat" can be spelled as either "kat," "kay," or "kaa." In a language like Mandarin Chinese, for instance, both "cat" and "ka" are