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Re: What two words . . . ?



At 9:42 PM -0500 2/18/98, Bob Sciamanda wrote:
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).

The Webseter's (Dictionary for Everyday Use) on my shelf says:
homonym: n. a word having the same pronunciation as another but a different
meaning, e.g. air and heir. Also homophone.

....although the online dictionary at
<http://www.bucknell.edu/~rbeard/diction.html> agrees with you.

Larry Smith