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Anonymous  #447615  Thu, 29 Nov 07 12:14 AM
there is cool and cool cool as in the person is cool and cool as in the cold air is cool. also contacts and contacs like eyes and in a phone book. train and train as train ur dog and as the choo choo train.back and back and feet and feet.
  
Anonymous  #470811  Thu, 31 Jan 08 12:32 AM

 CalifJim wrote:
Only five?! There must be thousands! Just open any page of a dictionary!

bank, crop, bear, peer, sink, fritter, pants, slip, slide, dry, fit, class, shine, creep, divide, page, gin, trip, keel, ship, fall, hedge, needle, scrape, riddle, throw, train, ...
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I need some mixed up messages ( Funny )

  
Anonymous  #483909  Sun, 02 Mar 08 08:37 AM
 what are words called that are spelled the same  and sound the same but have different meanings??

 

  
Anonymous  #483913  Sun, 02 Mar 08 08:39 AM
thanks
  
Anonymous  #483914  Sun, 02 Mar 08 08:41 AM
 to to too too two
  
Mister Micawber  #483919  Sun, 02 Mar 08 08:49 AM
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HOMONYM: One of two or more words having the same sound and often the same spelling but different meanings. Examples: quail (cower), and quail (bird) fair (appearance), fair (county fair), and fair (reasonable).


HOMOPHONE: One of two or more words pronounced the same but different in meaning, origin, and sometimes spelling. Examples: cite, sight, and site; sea and see; your and you're; bow and bough.


HOMOGRAPH: One of two or more words spelled alike but different in origin, meaning, and sometimes pronunciation. Examples: bow of a ship, a bow and arrow, and a bow (deference/manners).

 

  
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Anonymous  #484077  Sun, 02 Mar 08 03:41 PM

read, to read a book/ read, you have read the book

  
Anonymous  #494646  Sun, 30 Mar 08 05:52 PM

what are words that are spelt the same but pronounced two different ways. for example tear to cry tear --to rip a piece of cloth... wind- to entangle around something--wind - a force of nature?

  
Anonymous  #501084  Tue, 15 Apr 08 05:32 PM

multiple-meaning words are spelled the same, sound the same, but have different meanings

homonyms are spelled differently but sound the same

  
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