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What is the name of the word used to describe words with same spelling but different meanings and pronunciations?
Quote: Loopey @ December 27 2012, 1:51 PM GMTWhat is the name of the word used to describe words with same spelling but different meanings and pronunciations?
A homonym. I'd love to say I knew the answer but I had to Google it.
Quote: reds @ December 27 2012, 2:01 PM GMTA homonym. I'd love to say I knew the answer but I had to Google it.
I Googled it too but came up with two options - homonym and homographs, so thought I'd see what BCG-ers came up with.
Whats the proper name for a gay person?
Quote: Loopey @ December 27 2012, 2:18 PM GMTI Googled it too but came up with two options - homonym and homographs, so thought I'd see what BCG-ers came up with.
Google isn't what it used to be.
RIP Jack Klugman, Gerry Anderson and Charles Durning. The rule of three strikes again.
I sincerely hope this was used as their Christmas card.
Awwww kitteh!
I work for a membership organisation and one of our member's had the following posted on their website:
I was recently walking threw leeds city centre at approximatley 8.00pm on the 3rd of January 2013 and I notices a bright blue AQL sign and looked at it and I fell over as it blurred my vision and sent me dizzy and I fell over. Not only Once tho but THREE times. I suggest you change the colour or you will be paying a compensation fine. Thanks Member of the public.
I suggest he/she should see a psychiatrist.
lolz
zoo, you have been sneaking on to Facebook! 
Heh, I have!
When asked how he made his bust of Ernest Bevin look so much like the former Foreign Secretary, the sculptor Jacob Epstein said that it was simple.
"I took a big block of stone," he replied, " and chipped away all the bits that didn't look like Bevin."
