Talk:List of English homographs

message: Given that "des", "en", "oblige", "riches", "terrible" and "vie" only occur in their differing pronunciations as part of various foreign phrases (as in "en route", "noblesse oblige", "nouveaux riches", "enfant terrible", "la vie en rose"; I can't think of an example right now for "des", except for "Des Moines", and I don't know how that is pronounced), to what extent can they be considered English heteronyms?  The fact that they only occur in phrases also makes their inclusion dubious, in my opinion.  — Paul G 14:44, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Likewise with "dos" ("dos-a-dos"?) and "voyage" ("bon voyage"). — Paul G 14:22, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

text: Most homographs beginning with re are hyphenated (at least in UK English) in the "again" sense to aid the pronunciation; hence "to re-sign the contract", "the band have re-formed". These are therefore not really homographs. — Paul G 07:28, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
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message: Contributors to this list might like to refer to Wiktionary's list of heteronyms (a heteronym being a word having two different pronunciations but the same spelling, in contrast to a homograph, which is two distinct (in that they have different etymologies) words spelled the same way). This list is partly based on the homographs listed here in dickapedia and has been extended. — Paul G 07:28, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Wiktionary's list

message: Celtic 
Mobile(3) is offensive. 
:To whom? To people who think living in a trailer is shameful? You offend my grandmother with your assertion that it's "offensive" to live in a trailer. (BTW, if I suggest that there are ghettos in Harlem or East St. Louis, will you find that offensive, too?) TheEditrix2 15:04, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
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message: Should the word 'pitch' (as in: cricket/tar/angle of roof/"sales pitch"/frequency of sound) be added?
203.219.31.68 (talk) 15:49, 16 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pitch 

message: This list should include 'arm', 'fair', 'fast', 'ground', 'left' and 'sound'. I'll try to come up with some examples. Schmorgluck (talk) 13:37, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Some other words missing 

message: Should sake be included? 
*Purpose (n), as in for its own sake, or for the sake of argument, or for old times' sake
*Japanese rice wine (n)
These seem to be two different meanings with different pronounciation and etymology. Coyets (talk) 14:30, 23 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  sake 

message: tender could mean like legal tender, or like tasty, soft meat... 
look in Hamlet, Polonius uses this kind of wordplay.
The word "tender" can also be a verb, meaning "offer" or "give";
it's also a "person who tends to or takes care of" someone else.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.246.252.97 (talk) 09:11, 27 November 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  tender 

message: The addition of mouse-over pronunciation guides gave a warning, 'Warning: This page contains too many expensive parser function calls.'  Is this a large problem? -- deflective (talk) 10:41, 15 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  IPAc-en conversion 

message: Re the introduction, I don't see how "bat" and "bear" are an example of homographs whose meanings have diverged. "Bat" and "bear" aren't homographs at all. Am I missing something? Jzimba (talk) 13:39, 30 March 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Two years later, I finally get it. There is no connection being claimed between "bat" and "bear." Rather, each is an example of the stated phenomenon. I'm going to delete "bear" since only one example is strictly necessary, and at least on first reading I found this pretty confusing. --Jzimba (talk) 01:28, 26 April 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Bat" and "Bear"? 

message: As noted in the second sentence, there are two kinds of homographs, the kind that are pronounced the same (homophones) and the kind that are prounounced differently. Currently, the latter type is called "heteronym," and this is a standard term. But there is another standard term for words that are pronounced differently, "heterophone," and this is actually clearer since it is Greek for 'different sound,' which is the literal description of the class. Indeed, the Wiki page for "heteronym" says "(also known as a heterophone)." So I have added this parenthetical to the article here as well. Jzimba (talk) 15:34, 2 April 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Two kinds of homographs 

message: Someone has tagged the word "may" as being dubious, but failed to start the discussion. Is there any reason for this tag to remain? Per Wiktionary, "may" has the well-known verb form (permission or possibility, and others) as well as a noun form (an alternative name for the Hawthorn bush, or its flowers). Doesn't seem very dubious to me but waiting for others to provide input. Etamni | ✉ | ✓  01:28, 8 July 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  May 

message: I came to copyedit but can't for the life of me figure out what this is trying to say: "When the prefix "re-" is added to a monosyllabic word, the hi word gains currency both as a noun and as a verb." What is "the hi word" supposed to mean? New? And while most examples I can think of are monosyllabic, (refuse, replay, reshoot, reform, recall, recap, recharge) the pattern works at least occasionally for polysyllabic words, too (redesign). And then there are cases where a word with a "re-" prefix has verb and adjective meanings (reanimate). 
--FLRdorothy (talk) 20:03, 31 December 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Words starting with "re" 

message: I noticed there were several proper nouns on this list, specifically ones that referred to more than one specified place (Washington, Djibouti, etc.) I think it might be better to remove those? The amount of place names that could equally be considered homographs are far too numerous.  UrsaMajr (talk) 13:44, 17 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proper nouns on this list 

message: Homograph and their meanings with the parts of speech their are 102.90.57.247 (talk) 18:45, 25 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Homograph and their meanings with the parts of speech their are 

message: Homograph and their meanings with the parts of speech their are 102.90.57.247 (talk) 18:46, 25 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  English