Conference thebay::joyoflex

    If I am not mistaken, these are homographs, whereas homophones sound
    the same but may be spelled differently. Both are types of homonym.
    
    My favourites are right, right, write and rite.
    
    Phillip (fillip)

    Re .1, .2:
    
    None of the examples meet the specification in .0:  Same spelling,
    different sound (and meaning).
    
    See topic 282, where there are around 40 of these things. 
    
    
    				-- edp 

    Those in .1 and .2 are _homo_nyms.
    
    What you want, .0, is read, past tense of read, which is present
    tense of read.
    
    See?  :-)
    
    -debbie

    Minute - 1/60th of an hour.
    
    Minute - very tiny.

    polish - from Poland
    
    polish - make it shine
    
    Bernie

    Would polish from Poland not be Polish polish?
    
    Phillip

    If you shine up the can, you polish up the Polish polish.
    
    If you use all the polish while shining it, you polish off the Polish
    polish polish up.
    
    -bs
    
    

    Re .5:
    
    "Minute" was reported seven months ago, in topic 282.
    
    
    				-- edp

    Polish is also what a drunken Glaswegian - of which there are supposed
    to be not a few on Sauchiehall Street on Friday night - would refer
    to the boys in blue as.
    
    Funny how these topics always wander off the original track, isn't
    it?
    
    Phillip
    

    I thought tangents were the whole purpose of this file.  
    
    I mean, anybody can stay on the subject. It takes real talent to
    come up with some of digressions we've explored . . .
    
    --bonnie

>        I thought tangents were the whole purpose of this file.  

    If I digressed from this into puns about trigonometry (sined, sealed,
    delivered, I'm yours...) would that make this note a tangent digressing
    from a tangent?
    
    I never meta-tangent I didn't like...
    
    PS, I stole the "sined, sealed" pun from Buckeroo Bonzai, credit
    where credit is due...
    
    PPS, speaking of credit, I had to get someone to cosine my mortgage
    so that I could buy my house.
    
             

    I thought that heteronyms were words which differ in spelling,
    and pronunciation, and meaning, and basically have nothing
    to do with each other.
    
    To find examples of such pairs is not an easy task. One
    could offer:
    
    	Flamingo 	and 	station-wagon
    	I 		and 	antidisestablishmentarianism
    	Marks 		and 	Spencer
    
     but then how can you be absolutely certain they really 
     *never* met before ?
    
     	roger
         
     

    Or Marx and Spenser, which whilst heteronyms for themselves are
    homophones for Marks and Spencer, should therefore properly be called
    heterohoms, constitute a semantic field of multiple dimensions in
    themselves and write exciting political tracts in nine-line stanzas.
    
    Yes, that's it.
    
    Phillip

    I think .13 has it..  Weren't heteronyms named after Heteronymus
    Bosch, who spent his life finding reasons for associating pairs
    of words until he was stumped by aardvark and perambulator?

    RE: .15
    
    Didn't Heteronymus Bosch paint a picture called, "The Garden of
    Wordly Delights?"
    
    
    John M.

    re .15--
    
    I thought it was Zeus and potato he was stumped by.  Wasn't it he
    who discovered the obscure root of aardvark, namely "vark," pronounced
    in modern times "walk"?  This clearly relates to the root of
    perambulator, namely "lator," which of course is the basis for 
    "do the 'gator walk."

    Did you know that Marx and Spencer are buried opposite each other
    in Highgate cemetary?