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May 06, 2010 21:51

-nyms for the day:

Heteronym: A word that holds different meanings with different pronunciations while spelled the same (eg "Polish", "tear", "bow", "lead", "bass")
Antagonym: A word that can mean the opposite of itself (eg "clip", attach to or cut off from; "fast", moving rapidly or fixed in position ( Read more... )

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jadesfire55 May 7 2010, 14:41:50 UTC
Ooo...I'll have to remember heteronym; that's a new one for me. Oddly enough, whenever I speak the word "bass" it comes out like the music, but when I read "bass" on the page my internal pronounciations comes out like the fish...even if I'm reading about music!

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