LL-L "Riddles" 2003.10.25 (01) [E]

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From: Terrence Connor <tconnor at broadpark.no>
Subject: LL-L "Riddles" 2003.10.25

Dag sê julle,

Well done Gary!   I thought there was only one, now there are two and
probably one or  two more.
The one I was thinking of:  "polish"(substantive/verb) and
"Polish"(adjective/substantive).

    Terrence

> From: Gary Taylor <gary_taylor_98 at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Riddles
>
> Haj uw,
>
> Terrence wrote:
>
> 'There is only one five letter word in English that
> though spelt the
> same way
> has too different meanings and different
> pronunciation. Clue : one of
> them
> is spelt beginning with a lower case letter and the
> other with a
> capital
> letter.'
>
> Not the one you're looking for but 'tears' - 'rips'
> and 'drops from crying' neither of which require a
> capital letter - are we allowed to include
> morphological breaks?? :)
>
> Gary

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