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The Wednesday Word - homograph
Wednesday 1 May 2013
Today’s word is homograph, which is a word to describe a
word of the same written form but one that has a different meaning.
There are some really great examples of it and in case you
were wondering, it is homographs which make the English language so difficult
to learn as a second language.
· He was present to
present the present.
· Ice cream is a
great dessert in the desert if you desert your diet.
· The farmer taught
his sow to sow, and his wife taught the sow to sew.
The first sentence is what I am calling a triple homograph,
although the latter two are nearly triple homograph (which are even more rare
than the double homographs, especially in a sentence).
Does anyone know of other examples, double or triples or
more?
Check out the original Wednesday Word, or many other Wednesday Words here.
Feel free to let me know if you ever come across a word you think may be appropriate for this part of my blog.
1 comments :
Oh for goodness sake -- ESL students actually get these pretty well, it's verb tenses and articles and phrasal verbs and such that really drive them crazy!!
There's whole lists of these circulating ... Polish the Polish furniture, The minute amount of water lasted only for a minute, How much produce does Hawaii produce?, etc.
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