• @[email protected]English
    3•2 months ago

    Umm… these aren’t homonyms in English 🙂.

    They are heteronyms, which means same spelling but pronounced differently.

    • massive_bereavement
      2•2 months ago

      In some cases also can classify as homophones.

      Nope, it’s bull, homophones and heteronyms go to different bars.

      • @[email protected]English
        1•2 months ago

        Then they wouldn’t be heteronyms.

        If by “cases” you mean accent, then that’s certainly a possibility.

        • massive_bereavement
          2•2 months ago

          I Misunderstood what heteronyms where supposed to be.

          Yep, pretty much opposite of what homophones are.

    • @[email protected]English
      2•2 months ago

      Well some of them are, like Polish and polish. I agree that different pronounciation is pretty exclusive, though.

      • @[email protected]English
        3•2 months ago

        I’m pretty sure they’re all heteronyms in spoken English and make sense only if you use two pronunciations of the duplicated word.

      • @[email protected]English
        1•2 months ago

        In my accent Polish/polish are pronounced differently. In what accent are they the same?