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2012/07/08 - 9:58pm
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Grant Barrett said:

Quiz Guy Greg Pliska has a puzzle about heteronyms, words that have the same spelling, but different meanings, like "moped" as in "acted glum" and "moped" as in a motorized bike.

Has anybody mentioned that "Buffett buffet" doesn't quite work as a heteronym?

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2012/07/09 - 7:03am
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On another thread, it seems that boson is another pair of heteronym, the particle named after Bose and the corruption of boatswain.

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2012/07/09 - 1:46pm
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Maybe a better heteronym clue would be, "Whenever our cruise ship went over a wave, it would batter the messdeck with sharp blows. So we decided to call the smörgåsbord there the..."

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