• that orþanc genuinely does mean "cunning" in Old English, so that the homonym Tolkien had in mind was between Sindarin and Old English, that is, translated...
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    archivist-paleographer Arthur Bertrand de Broussillon points out that this is a homonym error : Charles d'Estouville did indeed marry a Marie de Craon, but she...
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    "bot" (as in un pied bot, a club foot) and "beau" (beautiful) are not homonyms in Belgian French, creating minimal pairs of sentences like J'ai vu son...
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    the Old Norse personal surname Norse Barn meaning "child". The name is a homonym with all the Barnevilles in Normandy. The complementary determinant -la-Campagne...
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    300 homonyms or synonyms: over 250 for Chasselas Blanc, about 300 for Pinot Noir, and close to 350 for Muscat à Petits Grains Blancs. Often homonyms or...
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    emotion, the more modern branch of computer science originated with Rosalind Picard's 1995 paper entitled "Affective Computing" and her 1997 book of the same...
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    title of Controller-General as he wanted to replace these with a sole homonym office with cabinet rank in charge of all the finances and taxes of France...
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  • other names, that is homonyms and synonyms, by which each variety is known are also included in the lists below. These homonyms and synonyms indicate...
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    variant form Húnn, which is also found close to Honfleur in Honnaville, homonym of the Honneville at Saint-Georges-du-Mesnil. Such a connection between...
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  • Pinocchio Huber & Carvalho, 2019, but this name turned out to be a junior homonym that had been used before, for the harvestman genus Pinocchio Mello-Leitão...
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    Anthemocrinidae extinct Silurian (Wenlockian) Sweden : 382  Anthometra - junior homonym of Anthometra Boisduval, 1840 (Lepidoptera) - see Anthometrina [link removed...
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  • bird genus Camptodontus Li, Gong, Zhang, Yang, and Hou, 2010, a junior homonym of Camptodontus Dejean, 1826". Zootaxa. 4612 (3): 440. doi:10.11646/zootaxa...
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