A heteronym is, of course a word which has two separate meanings, different pronunciation, but only one spelling.
Using both meanings in the same sentence is fun, but not that difficult once you've got a list - Googled - of hetronyms.
Example: "I have secret fears I would only intimate to my most intimate friends."
(Both words should be in the same language. "The clumsy waiter dropped the pate' on the customers pate." is a stretch.)
How many can be captured in a single sentence? Could be a lot; here's two in one sentence:
"I'd pay a buck or two to see the odd things a buck does when does are in heat."
Obviously there are more pairs to be discovered - how about triplets?
Could a paragraph (making reasonable sense) be written with every sentence containing heteronyms?
Using both meanings in the same sentence is fun, but not that difficult once you've got a list - Googled - of hetronyms.
Example: "I have secret fears I would only intimate to my most intimate friends."
(Both words should be in the same language. "The clumsy waiter dropped the pate' on the customers pate." is a stretch.)
How many can be captured in a single sentence? Could be a lot; here's two in one sentence:
"I'd pay a buck or two to see the odd things a buck does when does are in heat."
Obviously there are more pairs to be discovered - how about triplets?
Could a paragraph (making reasonable sense) be written with every sentence containing heteronyms?
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Re: Heteronyms in use - or misuse.
Tue, April 22, 2008 - 4:49 AMI read, then I have read.
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Tue, April 22, 2008 - 7:55 AMRefuse refuse. (pronunciation: reFYOOZ REFyoos. meaning: reject waste.) -
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Tue, April 22, 2008 - 10:15 AMI read refuse and I refuse to again one I have read it.
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Wed, April 23, 2008 - 5:15 AMThere are main noun-verb pairs such as
I object to this object being put here. (pronunciation: obJECT, OBject)
I project a picture of our project (pronunciation: proaJECT, PROject).
Karl
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Tue, April 22, 2008 - 3:33 PMHomophonically and heteronymically:
I will lead you to the bear but I can't bear to dig the lead out of him.
Heteronymically:
Can you console the man with the Bass Ale near the bass console? -
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Tue, April 22, 2008 - 7:24 PMI will not live until I see KISS live. I get so wound up it's like a wound in my belly.
(I don't really want to see KISS. Really. It's just an example.)
I also love 15-year-old girls saying, "Oooh, the bass player is so cute!" saying it like the bass fish.
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Tue, April 22, 2008 - 3:35 PMIt would be invalid to intern the invalid with the intern.
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Tue, April 22, 2008 - 5:26 PM"A heteronym is, of course a word which has two separate meanings, "
here I thought it was a synonym for heteros. like "breeders". ;)
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Thu, April 24, 2008 - 5:08 AMHow many can be captured in a single sentence? Could be a lot; here's two in one sentence:
"I'd pay a buck or two to see the odd things a buck does when does are in heat."
Both of the"buck"s are pronunced the same, but the "does"s are pronunced differently.
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Thu, April 24, 2008 - 6:24 AMYou are a better man than I.
The sentence given is not my creation, but I missed the pronunciation error.
Read about this odd game in a Scientific American article.
THEY used a similar sentence - and missed it as well. (!)
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Fri, April 25, 2008 - 8:33 AMThe Native American women would tear cloth into pieces to sew patchwork clothes for the community as they were led on the “Trail of Tears.“
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Sun, April 27, 2008 - 9:37 PMDoes it read well to write that I would be content if I could live to have read a book with content about live does? -
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Mon, April 28, 2008 - 4:50 AMHe does live to see live does.
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Mon, April 28, 2008 - 9:16 AMI can only think of ones that rhyme, as in, I had a row with the captain about how to row the boat into row of boats near the shore. Oh my! -
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Tue, April 29, 2008 - 4:56 AMYes you can row about how to row a boat!
Did anyone stab David Bowie with a Bowie knife?
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Mon, May 5, 2008 - 11:28 AMI am not the type who would want to type on such a typical PC. -
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Tue, May 6, 2008 - 5:21 AMI am not the type who'd tell my PC what I type on my PC.
In Britain, PC also stands for Police Constable
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK_police_ranks
Karl
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