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Dialect
The term dialect (from Latin,, from the Ancient Greek word,, "discourse", from,, "through" and,, "I speak") is used in two distinct ways to refer to two different types of linguistic phenomena.
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Heteronym (linguistics)
A heteronym (also known as a heterophone) is a word that has a different pronunciation and meaning as another word but the same spelling.
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Homograph
A homograph (from the ὁμός, homós, "same" and γράφω, gráphō, "write") is a word that shares the same written form as another word but has a different meaning.
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Homonym
In linguistics, homonyms, broadly defined, are words which sound alike or are spelled alike, but have different meanings.
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Initial-stress-derived noun
Initial-stress derivation is a phonological process in English that moves stress to the first syllable of verbs when they are used as nouns or adjectives.
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Latin
Latin (Latin: lingua latīna) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.
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List of English words with disputed usage
Some English words are often used in ways that are contentious between writers on usage and prescriptive commentators.
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List of true homonyms
Homonyms are words that are both spelled and pronounced the same as each other, yet have different meanings.
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Verb
A verb, from the Latin verbum meaning word, is a word (part of speech) that in syntax conveys an action (bring, read, walk, run, learn), an occurrence (happen, become), or a state of being (be, exist, stand).
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_homographs
