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Re:Why isn’t there an English Academy? Blame the plague by rgoulter on Thursday August 26, 2021 @11:20PM (#28323949)
That's a good example. I am amused by "record" being pronounced differently whether it's a verb or a noun.
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Re:Why isn’t there an English Academy? Blame the plague by auxbuss on Friday August 27, 2021 @06:19PM (#28333578)
They're called heteronyms, and there are a lot of them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heteronym_(linguistics)
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