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[Deleted member 18243]

You end up with a word with two meanings..Very common.

Known as a "homonym" I think. Correct me if I'm wrong!

 

[noseall]

So if a lot of people start calling a tomato a house brick, would we be down the greengrocers asking for house bricks ?

How many people call a vacuum cleaner a Hoover? Darn synonyms.

 

[SirGalahad]

Known as a "homonym" I think. Correct me if I'm wrong!

Wrong.

Two words may have the same spelling and pronunciation but have different meanings.

Hare and Hair.

Bear and Bare.

 

[Ihavenojob]

How many people call a vacuum cleaner a Hoover? Darn synonyms.

why are hospitals full of sick people, when sick means good, and the opposite of good is bad, which is also good ?

 

[transam]

Never really under stood the term

Blow j** tbh

It should be suck **b

 

[Ihavenojob]

My pet Americanism (ugh) is burglarized. Why? There's already a perfectly decent word for it. Burgled.

Could someone be sodomed ?

 

[Brigadier]

Could someone be sodomed ?

If someone comes to our door asking about soffits or the like, and the missus shouts through to ask if we're interested, I shout back "Sod 'em."
Which makes them sodomed, I reckon

 

[bobasd]

Vacuum and Hoover refer to a Metonym.

 

[HERTS P&D]

An elderly Italian neighbour went into John Lewis, into the kitchen department and ask the sales person for a "pasta stop, water go" the assistant new straight away that she needed a colander. I found this very funny.

Andy

 

[Deleted member 18243]

Wrong.

Two words may have the same spelling and pronunciation but have different meanings.

Hare and Hair.

Bear and Bare.

Going by that, I think I'm right.

E.g. In Ihavenojob's house brick / tomato suggestion, "house brick" (1) would mean a brick to build houses with. "House brick" ( 2) would have the same spelling and pronunciation as "house brick" ( 1) but would mean tomato, which is a different meaning.

 

[JohnD]

Wrong.

Two words may have the same spelling and pronunciation but have different meanings.

Hare and Hair.

Bear and Bare.

homophone, surely.

 

[Ihavenojob]

Vacuum and Hoover refer to a Metonym.

Eponym ? As in eponymous.

 

[bobasd]

Eponym - no. Its a metonym.

 

[IT Minion]

In some ways English is simpler than many others -no gender for instance and also it's not all that unusual for words to be context sensitive so in some respects it's a shorthand language. It also has some anglo saxon words still kicking about that get edited out on forums etc. Odd really as they have explicit meanings. Must be a hang over from trying to get rid of anglo saxon for some reason, probably snobbery.

Americans some times want to know where all of the zees as they pronounce them have gone.

Except where we do. Boats are feminine. So no gender, except where there is.

And we're back to illogical.

 

[EddieM]

How about Blonde (female) Blond (male)