The Same But Different

rogersgeorge on September 12th, 2023

Our words of the day, folks, are homonym and homophone. Here are a bunch of samples:

https://www.gocomics.com/gasolinealley/2023/07/23

Here’s the tricky part. :

Two words are spelled the same but pronounced differently
Two words are spelled differently but pronounced the same
Two words have the same meaning
Two words have different meanings

Okay, which is which? The words can be in more than one list item.

homophone
homonym,
synonym

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