Grammatical Ignorance Considered Support for Gay Rights in Utah

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I love a good turn of phrase. Much of the time, one can be achieved via the mastery of a word/figure of speech — like these three, for example:

Homograph (n.) — Words that have the same spelling, but different pronunciations and meanings.

Homonym (n.) — Words that have the same spelling and same pronunciation, but different meanings.

Homophone (n.) — Words that have the same pronunciation, but different spelling and different meanings.

That last one is tricky because it reminds narrow-minded people of a word that no one uses correctly: HomophobeYou

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