WOTY nomination

[Laurence Horn]

At 8:12 PM -0500 2/28/09, Mark Mandel wrote:
>I see ambiguity (of reference), but homonymy?
>Mark Mandel
>

True enough.  I often use "homonymy" and "lexical ambiguity"
interchangeably, but you make a good point on why not to.

LH

>On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 4:20 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
>>  At 3:06 PM -0600 2/28/09, Dennis Baron wrote:
>>>shovel-ready: a word which sounds more like it refers to a stiff than
>>>a project.
>>
>>  A point I brought up when we were discussing "shovel-ready" at the
>>  San Francisco meeting in January. ? But I don't think the awkward
>>  homonymy lost it too many votes; it just hadn't gained its traction
>>  yet.
>
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