At 11:50 AM 9/7/01 -0500, Ayers, Mike wrote:
>Words with the
>same spelling and different pronunciation are uncommon but exist in English,
>the classic example being "read" and its own past tense.
Actually, this is a bit more common than you think, since the pronunciation
of vowels in English depends somewhat systematically on stress, and verb
and noun forms of many words are stressed differently.
A./
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