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- From: scotty@netcom.com (J Scott Peter)
- Subject: Re: homonym, homophone, homograph
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- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 92 09:48:41 GMT
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- References: <1992Jul23.164615.1@rulfsw.leidenuniv.nl> <1992Jul23.211228.29092@news.columbia.edu>
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- In article <1992Jul23.211228.29092@news.columbia.edu> gmw1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Gabe M Wiener) writes:
- >I usually regard homonyms to be words such as "pool" or "bridge" which
- >are spelled and pronounced identically but have completely unrelated
- >meanings.
- >
- >The ones that I love are homonyms whose meanings are antonymic, such as
- >cleave and sanction. Can anyone think of any others?
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- `Sanction' reminds me of `citation', which has at least 3 meanings: a
- positive, a negative, and a neutral.
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