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Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Did you know that a homonym is a group of words that share the same spelling and the same pronunciation but have different meanings?

Did you know that a homonym is a group of words that share the same spelling and the same pronunciation but have different meanings?

 Did you know that these are examples of homonyms, are the pair stalk (part of a plant) and stalk (follow/harass a person) and the pair left (past tense of leave) and left (opposite of right)?

  Did you know that a distinction is sometimes made between "true" homonyms, which are unrelated in origin, such as skate (glide on ice) and skate (the fish), and polysemous homonyms, or polysemes, which have a shared origin, such as mouth (of a river) and mouth (of an animal)?





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