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Old 08-30-2016, 12:58 PM   #181
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Originally Posted by MikeB1972 View Post
Oh, there are tons of English ones, Lead & Live immediately spring to mind for words that have multiple meanings and pronunciation for the same spelling.
There's even a famous poem about English pronunciations. "Chaos" by G.Nolst Trenite, aka Charivarius (1870-1946). [I didn't know it had a name or author till just now!]

http://www.wordsmith.org/awad/english1.html

Or, vocalized on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1edPxKqiptw
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