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    legally named Shauna Lamas, and new bride Shawna, whose given name is a homonym and almost identical to that of Shauna, did not wish to have a virtually...
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    inside joke, as the character is never seen in the film. The name is a homonym of the French "elle est morte," meaning "she is dead". Making Lady in the...
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    before the New Year, as cutting hair on New Year is considered bad luck due to the homonymic nature of the word "hair" (fa) and the word for "prosperity"...
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    be translated as "the castle" or "the palace", but the German word is a homonym that can also refer to a lock. It is also phonetically close to der Schluss...
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    and is situated in the Levantine Sea. It is the largest island of the homonym archipelago comprising the islands and islets of Agios Georgios, Agrielaia...
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  • (homsan) Toft – for homsan see "Whomper"; Toft is perhaps imaginary, though homonymic with toft, "thwart (n.), rowlock", Finnish: Homssu) – a small, very shy...
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    nonsense to see how well Lennon has brought it off. While some of his homonyms are gratuitous word play, many others have not only double meaning but...
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  • Pokémon: The First Movie (category Stinkers Bad Movie Award winning films)
    highlight the film's overall message of self-existence, with Ai being a homonym of the English word "I". Norman J. Grossfeld, former president of 4Kids...
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  • 2008 Lil' Kim rewrites "Cha Cha Cha" for her song "Ms. G.O.A.T." from her homonym mixtape album. Among the modifications that his version had, in the first...
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  • Queen decides it is time to schedule Wonderland's first spelling bee. Her homonym word choices, though, ensure that everyone loses-but Alice and her friends...
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  • Prior to mid-1974 she invented gestures to indicate specific phonemes and homonyms regardless of semantic context, unlike previous observations of invented...
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  • zoological sense or illegitimate in the botanical sense due to senior homonyms already having the same name. A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U...
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  • central theme. The grandfather Abelard's name makes it clear that the homonym cane/Cain is no coincidence. They first appear when Beli is kidnapped and...
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    “2” High School at Gyeongseong, while the “9” (in Korean, “ku”) is a homonym with the first syllable of their teacher’s name. Yoo Lizzy (1945–2013)...
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  • zoological sense or illegitimate in the botanical sense due to senior homonyms already having the same name. A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U...
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    Zijper Schutsluis, or Zijper Kolksluis. These names are also practical homonyms of the nearby place Zijpersluis, which has the Jacob Claesse lock and had...
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    Chinese word for "honourable" (貴, guì) while the word for "seed" is also a homonym for "son". The Mandarin Chinese word for orchid (蘭, lán) refers to zhī...
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  • puns to create humour. For example, there is a pun based on the pair of homonyms ma and mar in British English in chapter 8. Bertie Wooster asks Jeeves:...
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  • He worked with Gregory Hines and his rock band called Severance in his homonym album Severance (1976, Largo, keyboards) and with the American rock band...
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  • oblivious to this. Al-Ḍāhirī patterns his Sefer Ha`anaḳ (A treatise on Hebrew homonyms) after a work by a similar name written by Moses ibn Ezra. Al-Ḍāhirī's...
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  • ambiguous. The town is identified in signage as "Toaru City" (都亜瑠), a homonym for the phrase "a certain city", although it is never named in dialogue...
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