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Blog/Home
Stuff I Wrote
The Right to Keep and
Bear Arms
Odd Words
Other Interesting Places
Hedda Garza Memorial
~ ~ ~ ~
Statement of Purpose
Who Am I?
Contact

Previous Essays:
Index

Links I Like

Twenty Years of the CIO —
This is a great piece of
history!

The Ethical Spectacle
NRA
Fascinating Video Lecture
International Journal
    of Occupational and
    Environmental Health
Students for Concealed
     Carry on Campus

Book Review:
“The Man Who Hated Work and Loved Labor — The Life and Times of Tony Mazzocchi” This is a fascinating book about a labor leader who has had tremendous influence on our lives, but whose name is not even known by millions of Americans. Please read my review.

Introduction

The English Language has lots of words in it that are interesting because they have odd characteristics regarding meaning, pronunciation, origin, and so forth. My wife and I like them and collect them, but too often just in our heads. It's time to start writing them down, so this page will start to grow.

Homographs

Everyone knows what homonyms are – words that are spelled differently and have different meanings, but are pronounced the same. An example of a pair of homonyms is “blue” and “blew.” Homographs are the opposite – one word with multiple pronunciations, usually two. Technically, most are really two words with different pronunciations and meanings, but the same spelling. Often the words are the same word that is pronounced differently when used as another part of speech. For example, the word “aggregate” is pronounced one way when used as a noun and another way when used as a verb. Some, however, are totally different words that share the same spelling, for example “collect.” By the way, we didn't find these by browsing the dictionary, but running into them in our daily lives or in books which we have read.

absent	consummate	insert	project	repent
abstract	contact	insult	read	replicate
abuse	contest	intercept	rebel	reprint
advocate	correlate	intern	rebound	resent
affect	defect	intimate	recall	resign
aggregate	degenerate	invalid	recap	resume
animate	delegate	inverse	recoil	retouch
approximate	desert	invert	recollect	retread
arithmetic	designate	invite	record	reuse
associate	digest	laminate	recount	rewind
bass	do	lead	recreate	rewrite
bow	does	live	redress	row
buffet	dove	moderate	reflux	sewer
close	duplicate	object	refund	slough
collect	estimate	offense	refuse	sow
combine	fragment	perfect	regenerate	subject
commune	graduate	pervert	regress	suspect
compound	house	polish	rehash	syndicate
concrete	incense	precipitate	rehire	tear
conduct	incline	predicate	relapse	update
confine	increase	present	reject	use
conglomerate	inebriate	primer	relay	wind
congregate	ingrain	process	remake	winged
console	initiate	produce	repeat	wound

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Blog/Home Stuff I Wrote The Right to Keep and Bear Arms Odd Words Other Interesting Places Hedda Garza Memorial ~ ~ ~ ~ Statement of Purpose Who Am I? Contact

Previous Essays: Index

Links I Like

Twenty Years of the CIO — This is a great piece of history!

The Ethical Spectacle NRA Fascinating Video Lecture International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health Students for Concealed Carry on Campus

Book Review: “The Man Who Hated Work and Loved Labor — The Life and Times of Tony Mazzocchi” This is a fascinating book about a labor leader who has had tremendous influence on our lives, but whose name is not even known by millions of Americans. Please read my review.