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Please help with this homograph
explanation
a place in a bank for keeping checking and savings
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Greetings--
As I am aware, the English language has the following doubled words which are correct and actual homographs:
had had
that that
Does anyone know if other grammatical homographs can
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Ah, yes-- I see. What we are looking for is doubled homographs that no one would really notice and edit out for style.
Hmm, can't think of any more. Caffein's worn off. Good luck with it, Robert.
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Never thought about it before, Robert. Not very practical, but an interesting exercise. I presume you mean any pair of homographs that could be worked into a sentence?--
just just
set set
top
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need to have a complete listing of all plausible occurrences of such complete homographs. They have
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Such words are called "homographs".
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Emglish is riddled with homographs. Do other languages such as Spanish or French have as many? What are the proportions?
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By plausibility, I simply meant statistical probability.
If you Google for "had had", you get 3 700 000 pages with plenty of real life examples.
If you Google for "just just", you get only 146 000 pages. Most of these results come from lyrics
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You seem to have a pretty strong opinion of what qualifies as plausible and what doesn't. If the example has to be so plausible as to be common, you probably would have thought of it already. In your place I'd just say that "that that" and "had
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Well, I can context most of them without much trouble-- and I haven't even finished my coffee:
Just just people go to heaven.
The set set Andre Agassiz another point back.
The top top is green and the bottom is a pale yellow; it comes
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