• of the signifier, "signification." For the standard English word is a homonym of the Afro-American vernacular word. And, to compound the dizziness and...
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    from an attempt to disguise the word "cook". That "cook" and "coke" were homonyms at this time is shown by the fact that Coke's second wife, Elizabeth Hatton...
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  • prehistory between 1200 and 800 BC was a 'Dark Age'. The Hebrew term has a homonym, tarshish, occurring seven times and translated beryl in older English...
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  • conventions of Standard English is normally expected. Some of the examples are homonyms or pairs of similarly spelled words that are often confused. The words...
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    (of the temple of Ptah at Memphis), under Ramesses II; but he had many homonyms. So, the omission-of-deity explanation is to be dismissed as wrong ......
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  • Tai Mei" in NBA video, meaning "just because you are too beautiful", had homonym "Ji Ni Tai Mei", which means "Chicken you are too beautiful" Baidu 10 Mythical...
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    Belvoir Castle on 23 April 1603, but whether it was his eldest son or the homonym grandson is not sure. Valentine Browne married secondly Thomasine, daughter...
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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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    "often I remember", "think of me often" and, when spoken (exploiting the homonym souvent me sous vient), "I often pass beneath it" (referring to the inscriptions)...
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    deca- or hendecasyllabic couplet of a different rhyme, often rich or homonymic. The discrepancies and irregularities in the prosody may be attributed...
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  • Alcimus nigrescens Ricardo, 1922 [valid] Asilus montanus Ricardo, 1922 [homonym, valid as Orophotus montanus (Ricardo, 1922)] Asilus orientalis Ricardo...
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    offered voters the slogan "get rid of the barnacles and the Boyles", a homonymic reference to the parasitic growth on the side of a ship. He may have been...
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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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    resist the carnal advances of his older cousin Adla (her name is a near homonym for ödla, the Swedish word for lizard), a cunning temptress whose plot...
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