Is there any real difference between 'homage' and 'hommage'?

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Is the only difference that one is French and therefore sounds more 'theory' and shit? Or is there an actual definitional difference?

― Jaques Buried Her, Thursday, 17 November 2005 11:39 (twenty years ago)

is homage a noun?

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Thursday, 17 November 2005 11:42 (twenty years ago)

Yes.

― Jacques Buried Her, Thursday, 17 November 2005 11:43 (twenty years ago)

wtf is hommage?

― Le Marquis de Salade (noodle vague), Thursday, 17 November 2005 11:44 (twenty years ago)

'brommage'

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Thursday, 17 November 2005 11:46 (twenty years ago)

frommage-manging surrender sangs

― Le Marquis de Salade (noodle vague), Thursday, 17 November 2005 11:47 (twenty years ago)

'Hommage' is French for homage, yes. Is it ever spelt that way in English??

― naranjito (Koens), Thursday, 17 November 2005 11:47 (twenty years ago)

frottage

― oh ilx my lionheart (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 17 November 2005 11:48 (twenty years ago)

Nope, I've never seen it spelt other than "homage" in English.

― Le Marquis de Salade (noodle vague), Thursday, 17 November 2005 11:50 (twenty years ago)

Is every one on this sight homage?

― naranjito (Koens), Thursday, 17 November 2005 11:54 (twenty years ago)

Have just done a search for 'hommage' on the Guardian website which yields 60 results. Excluding those which are part of a French phrase, the word is exclusively used to mean books/movies/art which knowingly alludes to other books/movies/art. 'Homage', on the other hand, seems to have a wider use.

― Jacques Buried Her, Thursday, 17 November 2005 11:58 (twenty years ago)

See I'd pronounce the words the same anyway. I can see why somebody might use the French version as a technical term, but it smacks of needless pretentiosexuality to me.

― Le Marquis de Salade (noodle vague), Thursday, 17 November 2005 11:59 (twenty years ago)

hommage tends to refer to works which conspicuously reference other works, eg zadie smith's 'on beauty' is an hommage to e.m. forster, far from heaven' is an hommage to douglas sirk, etc.

homage has more general use, as in 'show respect to'.

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Thursday, 17 November 2005 12:06 (twenty years ago)

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