Re: What two words . . . ?

["Bob Sciamanda" <trebor@velocity.net>]

Webster's Coll Dictionary:
homonym:  . . .   one of two or more words spelled and pronounced alike
but different in meaning . . . (eg, the noun quail and the verb quail).


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-----Original Message-----
From: Ken Caviness <caviness@southern.edu>
To: phys-l@atlantis.uwf.edu <phys-l@atlantis.uwf.edu>
Date: Wednesday, February 18, 1998 5:55 PM
Subject: Re: What two words . . . ?


> Je 11:48 AM 2/17/98 -0500, SCIAMANDA@EDINBORO.EDU skribis:
>
> > A lurker has privately solved the puzzle of homonyms which are also
> > antonyms.  He is William M. Wehrbein; he says he heard it 20 or 30
> > years ago; so I guess I cannot claim first discovery :(  Are you ready?
> >
> > CLEAVE and CLEAVE
> >
> > -Bob
>
> Well, you didn't say that you wanted a single word that has two opposite
> meanings!  ;-)  I could have answered the question if it had been
phrased
> that way.
>
> Perhaps it's all in one's point of view.  To me "cleave" and "cleave"
are
> not homonyms -- "deer" and "dear" are, "sail" and "sale" are, and in
> Tennesse, "tarred" and "tired" are.  (To a first approximation.)
>
> [...back to your regularly scheduled physics discussion topic...]
>
> Have a good day!
>
> Ken
>
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