A few years back, I started a list of English words that have 2 or more completely unrelated meanings. Obviously, those crossword puzzles I’ve been doing all these years have pushed my already nerdy brain into ever more nerdier territory. Anyway, I wanted to find out just how many multiple-meaning words there are. To keep the list manageable, I didn’t include jargon, slang, names, or specialized words. And they had to be pronounced and spelled exactly alike. And now I have a list of 314 words. Here are some of them:
| account |
| adder |
| admission |
| admit |
| article |
| ball |
| band |
| bank |
| bar |
| bark |
| bat |
| battery |
| bay |
| beam |
| bear |
| bearing |
| bee |
| better |
| bid |
| blazer |
| block |
| blow |
| bluff |
| board |
| bolt |
| bound |
| box |
| bridge |
| bright |
| broad |
| brood |
| burn |
| bust |
| bustle |
Your turn! Can you think of any more?
Dawn V. Cahill - Hot Topic Christian Fiction 