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Makaay Posted 17 years ago
Grammar

Homographs

Hello
The other day I was talking to a friend of mine, and he started talking about words that have the same spell, but different pronunciation, the Homographs. Then I realized that I didn't know much about it, so I'm here to ask you if there's a list of the major homographs, the most commonly used. Because I looked it up on internet, and just found complete lists with hundreds of words.

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This is not a bad one: BASS BOW BUFFET CLOSE CONVERSE DESERT DIVERS DOES DOVE ENTRANCE INTIMATE INVALID LAME LEAD MINUTE OBJECT POLISH PRESENT PROJECT PUTTING REFUSE RESIGN RESUME ROW SEWER SHOWER SOW TEAR TOWER WIND WOUND

— Mister Micawber

  • This is not a bad one: BASS BOW BUFFET CLOSE CONVERSE DESERT DIVERS DOES DOVE ENTRANCE INTIMATE INVALID LAME LEAD MINUTE OBJECT POLISH PRESENT PROJECT PUTTING REFUSE RESIGN RESUME ROW SEWER SHOWER SOW TEAR TOWER WIND WOUND
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Mr. M -- is "divers" (adj.) just an alternate spelling of "diverse," or is there a significant difference between them?
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Thank you very much Mister Micawber
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Well, 'divers' is an old-fashioned word, I think, and according to my dictionary they are different. Or rather, 'diverse' is 'different', while 'divers' is just 'several'.
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