#homonyms — Public Fediverse posts
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#nonce is two separate nouns:
Nonce (1) means: The one or single occasion; the present reason or purpose.
(Etymology 1 is inherited from Middle English nonse, nones.)Nonce (2, in Britain and Ireland) means: A sex offender, especially one who perpetrates against children.
(Etymology 2 is dated 1975, in British criminal slang.) French equivalent: #pointeurMore: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nonce
#homonyms #incel #masculinism #reputation #fragility #maleFragility #manliness #masculinity #virility #homophobia #teenagers #prison #maleViolence #badBoy #boys #gender #etymology #slang #linguistics #English #Adolescence #Netflix #crime #criminality
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In other news....
Long story short, I sang the first lines of "O Danny Boy" in front of the 12yo.
She said, "That song is just awkward. It makes me think of Mario."
Pipes.
Y'all, I DIED. 🤣
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OMG. If this doesn’t prove my belief that every writer needs a good editor, then, well, may a hurricane bear down on me within the next 48 hours. . .
“Slim with a tight blonde ponytail, crossed legs in skinny jeans, and heels with telltale red souls, the woman sipped an iced beverage while reading a book.”
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@popey So you either charged your battery for free, or got charged for not getting your battery charged, or somewhere in-between?!?
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Soon I will be charging to the car to discharge it from the charger so they don't start charging me once it's stopped charging.
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the heat's dogging us
don't be hoping for a break
our foot's on the gas#haiku #senryu #poem #ShortPoem #SmallPoem #climate #heat #ExtremeHeat #homonyms #puns #metaphor #FossilFuels #gas #ClimateAcceleration
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Lead rhymes with read, but lead rhymes with read.
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This comic should amuse #writers. I did some research on the #etymology of the cited #homonyms and wrote this to my lit friend. My thoughts, anyway, which may amuse ewe:
It is obvious from an orthographic perspective that many sounds represented by groups of letters in English ought be pronounced differently and emphasized, putting aside that Germanic and French derivatives are also different. Problem is that human hearing and blurring of sounds due to regional accents mean we do a lot of error checking so accurate sounds don't always matter. As such, we have homonyms which shouldn't logically exist because we learn language by hearing not reading. But humans aren't logical (and are lazy speakers) and language is living. Scent = sss sen t. Sense = sen sss with a weak seh at the end. Scent without emphasis on the introductory s sound, sent, and cent are homonyms. Scent is from the French and cent from the German. Sent is the past tense of send so doesn't count.
#Language #Writing #Author #WritingCommunity #WritersOfMastodon #Comics #Humor
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Idea for those who frequently confuse #homonyms "your" vs "you're":
eschew both and make like a pirate by replacing them with "yarrr"
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@ChrisMayLA6
Is anyone collecting homonyms? This one is new to me.
"Tories continue to drag their heals "
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Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #10!
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Think we're kidding? Here's the explanation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo
But be warned: understanding why, won't make you feel any better.
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#butwhy #art #comic #comicstrip #comics #english #grammar #homonyms #buffalo #wtf #stupidfacts #facts #trivia #funfacts #strangebuttrue #uselessfacts #themoreyouknow #didyouknow
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Grassy knoll conspiracy theory #213...Skydiver killed by a grassy knoll.
(Shoot didn't open.)#conspiracyTheory #Kennedy #homonyms #puns #weird #joke #boomerHumor
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It's interesting how pronunciation mistakes creep into even professionally produced audiobooks. I've been listening to some Jeeves & Wooster audiobooks, along with some Agatha Christies, and occasionally you'll get someone pronouncing a word like pariah as "par-ee-ah".
One example that's popped up more than once is a description of clouds that lower. In this case it's mean to be pronounced to rhyme with "power", ie lowering clouds are those which hang dark and threatening. Check out this example (with a different spelling) from Shakespeare's Richard III:
"Now is the winter of our discontent
Made glorious summer by this sun of York;
And all the clouds that *lour'd* upon our house
In the deep bosom of the ocean buried."But often in the audiobooks, the narrator pronounce this form of lower as rhyming with "mower". Which is not correct, eg in the section of Jeeves in the Offing I just listened to:
"The storm clouds may *lower* and the horizon grow dark, we may get a nail in our shoe and be caught in the rain without an umbrella, we may come down to breakfast and find that someone else has taken the brown egg, but at least we have the consolation of knowing that we shall never see Aubrey Gawd-help-us Upjohn again."
#Words #Language #Homonyms #Wodehouse #PGWodehouse cc @NarrelleMHarris
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"Meanwhile, there is no reason to suspect that the new generation of political prisoners will be fermenting [sic] revolution."
That depends on the level of hygiene in the cells.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/foment