yes, there are homonyms in the English language -
which allows for puns;
a concept which many languages do not understand, yet adds humour
to others ;-)
I've always enjoyed the pun; still do.
Now, for a bit of English grammar history:
it's derived from the Latin & Greek - as were the Romantic &
Germanic languages;
spelling was not initially formalized due to this
conglomeration, so the idea of a dictionary came about;
Samuel Johnson wrote his formal dictionary;
then in the 19C, things were still informal, so the idea for
the OxfordEnglishDictionary was formed;
then Daniel Webster decided to write his dictionary excluding
the niceties in spelling of the OED because he wanted to eliminate 'the
British' from the language ;-)
BTW - Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll), & others, had some
interesting bits re. this continual squabble between the British & the
States;
his Jabberwocky is a gem of a poem.
Just a bit of trivia for y'all ;-)
From: Mark LaPierre <marklap...@aol.com>
Date: Wed, May 21, 2014 at 7:37 PM
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Spell Check Dictionary
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
English sucks as a language anyway. It's a conglomeration of words
grafted on from many other real languages that mostly still adhere to
the rules of the original language. The result is that English has no
consistent rules without the ever present, "Except", word. This
paragraph contains one of the prime examples. I almost all cases adding
apostrophe "s" on the end of a word denotes ownership, i.e. Tom's car,
but to indicate ownership with the word it the 's' is added without the
apostrophe. Of course its could also indicate multiple quantities of its.
Then there are words like disgruntled. Has anyone ever been gruntled?
Then too as in also, two as in one more then one, and to as in where you
are going. There's lead as in the heavy metal, lead as in being shown
the way, lead as in showing the way.
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