Comments on: Homograph Examples

By: Neville Saunders

Neville Saunders — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 05:50:54 +0000

I have been collecting homograph sets in Australian English for the past year or so. Over 900 so far. Of course this number includes examples like “permit” as a noun and verb with stress difference as well as “permits” as a noun and verb, again with stress difference. They occur at a rate of about 2.5% in the 1,000 most frequent words in Oz Eng. Is spelling reform needed?
The list is being revised and hopefully will be available on the Curtin University website after easter.

By: Hogan

Hogan — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 02:43:38 +0000

I need help.
We used ________ to _______ the broken paper box.

Many people bought tickets at the ________office to watch the
fighters _________.

By: shawn

shawn — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 23:39:44 +0000

ok is it just me or does any one else find the english language.just straight retarded and not make since on these homographs?? just who desided to say…hay ok i know lets just take this word and give it a few meanings…and exspect every one to understand…awwwww help this is crazy…

By: marie

marie — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 07:46:30 +0000

can you give more example with sentences?????please thank you!

By: airene

airene — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 06:27:16 +0000

can you please give me some examples of homographs in sentence form??