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<CAE1XxDFdGi5uieWxxeXJErugkjVB0A0-fb=wi6ft1e=gtug...@mail.gmail.com>,
on 07/03/2012
at 09:31 AM, John Gilmore <jwgli...@gmail.com> said:
>Robert A. Rosenberg wrote:
><begin extract>
>By the way you mean Homophone not Homonym. The former are words that
>sound alike but are spelled differently while the latter are words
>that mean the same thing but are spelled/pronounced differently.
>There are also words that are spelled the same but have different
>meanings and pronunciations (although I forget the term for this
>case) such as in "Please read this book which I have already read".
></end extract>
>Mr. Rosenberg's position is not devoid of merit.
He started out right but then got turned around. Homonyms are words
that are spelled the same but mean something *different*; he was
confusing homonym with synonym.
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Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
Atid/2 <http://patriot.net/~shmuel>
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