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'Eternity is a very long time, especially towards the end.' Stephen Hawking
'There are all kinds of interesting questions that come from a knowledge of science, which only adds to the excitement and mystery and awe of a flower.' Richard Feynman
If you were born in Texas, these probably sound the same:
dill, deal
fill, feel
hill, heel
kill, keel
mill, meal
nil, kneel
pill, peel
sill, seal
till, teal
will, weal
etc.
You forgot a couple...
ole/oil
crown/crayon
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"There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. We are all crew." - Marshall McLuhan
"We must not forget that when radium was discovered no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals. The work was one of pure science. And this is a proof that scientific work must not be considered from the point of view of the direct usefulness of it." - Marie Curie
Re: Homonyms and Their Grammatical Heirs
semantics is not always just pedantic quibbling. ~ douglas r. hofstadter
