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Wednesday, October 25, 2006

Okay...
There are these words that are spelled the same way, but when you say them different ways, they mean different things. Yes, I know what they are called, but I am not telling you, so you can't cheat and go look online for them. And if you know what they are called, no going and looking online for them as well.




I want you all to THINK of words that you can say more than one way and that gives them a different meaning...

A few examples to start you off with:
Read
Wound
Rebel
Lead
Project

Now think of your own!!
And post them, please. :)

Next week we will list mumes (which is plural for mumpsimus).
It means: adherence to or persistence in an erroneous use of language.

Or maybe a or two paragoge:
the addition of a sound or group of sounds at the end of a word
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12 comments:

  1. CindyOctober 25, 2006 11:16 PM

    wind

    I'm glad I am first because I'm not sure I can think of any more--BUT I love the challenge.

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  2. CindyOctober 25, 2006 11:21 PM

    bow

    Ha! another one!!

    What about---

    sow

    I probably won't sleep tonight--Thanks, Faith!!

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  3. CindyOctober 25, 2006 11:23 PM

    one more!!

    tier

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  4. AnonymousOctober 26, 2006 7:28 AM

    tear.

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  5. DamienOctober 26, 2006 8:20 AM

    Excuse me, but would you polish the bass of the entrance for a minute.

    (There's five of those-we-do-not- speak-of in the above sentence)

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  6. Anna POctober 26, 2006 9:13 AM

    live

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  7. SarahOctober 26, 2006 12:29 PM

    invalid

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  8. CindyOctober 26, 2006 11:31 PM

    On my way to work this morning I thought of

    desert

    but I was sure someone else would post it ahead of me--surprise:)

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  9. CindyOctober 26, 2006 11:38 PM

    I guess it's not fair to enter

    winds
    bows
    bowing
    bowed
    tearing
    tears
    deserts

    etc :0 :b :)

    I just thought of another one--

    does

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  10. DashaOctober 27, 2006 12:06 PM

    We studied that stuff at university last year, 'lexicology course' in English, I loved it, too. So much interesting things about words, their origin, classifications, characteristics, derivational specifics... Do you know what euphemisms are?

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  11. SueOctober 28, 2006 5:36 PM

    What is this doing here on a math-based person's site (not that it does not thrill me to see since I love English!) I love Damien's comment. I wish I were clever. And Dasha, yes. Euphemisms are our polite or politically correct way of saying something pleasantly that is really very unpleasant--like "passed away" for died, or "right to choose" instead of abort, and so on. And Faith, loved having you home one night! love you!

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  12. CindyNovember 21, 2006 8:11 PM

    Hah--I thought of this Sunday--

    address and

    progress

    I know it is late but I had to add them

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