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09-07-2010, 03:29 PM #1
Fun with language
School is back in sesion for a little fun with language. Todays' subject is homonyms, homographs, and homophones.
From the Oxford dictionary:
"hom-o-nym, - One of two or more words that have the same sound and often the same spelling but differ in meaning."
"hom-o-graph - One of two or more words that have the same spelling but differ in origin, meaning, and sometimes pronunciation"
"homo-o-phone - One of two or more words, such as KNIGHT & NIGHT, that are pronounced the same but differ in meaning, origin, and sometimes spelling"
I thought it would be interesting to see what my fellow wordsmiths can come up with in one sentence. I'll start with 2 sentences I find amusing:
The dove dove under the bush.
It took a number of injections for my jaw to get number.Last edited by ReardenSteel; 09-08-2010 at 04:12 AM.