Best of SRWP Vol. 3
Something Rhymes with Purple
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What Is a Homograph?
Bated breath actually means a shortened breath. A homograph is a word that is spelled the same of another, but not necessarily pronounced the same m anusually has come from ately different root. So if you take bow, to take a bow and bo bo the bow that you might have in your hair. There's a whole collection there. And actually they are quite often the bedrocks of puns, aren't they? They certainly are. Men, let me give you an apeheeand this is one of my favourites, because i think it could hardly be better.
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