Questions tagged [polysemes]
Questions about words or phrases that have multiple meanings.
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Are there other acceptable juxtapositions of polysemes?
An advert for BBC iPlayer read [I've dropped the comma]:
Making the unmissable unmissable.
The first 'unmissable' obviously has the sense '[that which is] too good to miss', and the second 'always ...
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Is this tongue-twister grammatical?
The tongue-twister goes:
Can a can of canned cans can a canned can of cans, if a can of canned cans can can a canned can of cans? Yes, a can of canned cans can can a canned can of cans, if a canned ...
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What do you call a word that has multiple senses or parts of speech in one sentence?
Consider the following sentence.
John used to work for the newspaper that you are reading.
(It has been collected from here.)
"Newspaper" has several well-known senses.
Newspaper could ...
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