RE: [OT] o-circumflex

[Asmus Freytag]

At 11:50 AM 9/7/01 -0500, Ayers, Mike wrote:
>Words with the
>same spelling and different pronunciation are uncommon but exist in English,
>the classic example being "read" and its own past tense.

Actually, this is a bit more common than you think, since the pronunciation 
of vowels in English depends somewhat systematically on stress, and verb 
and noun forms of many words are stressed differently.

A./