Thread: let's get liseuse recognized as a real word
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Old 09-09-2009, 10:03 AM   #57
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Originally Posted by Bilbo1967 View Post
Just thinking about that and I would bet that the majority of nouns in the English language have more than one meaning.
maybe not the majority but a very high proportion. see homograph.

examples :
shift n. (a change)
shift n. (a period at work)
shift v. (to move quickly)

even more pertinent
read (present tense)
read (past tense)

here's a list : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_homographs
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