From: utzoo!decvax!yale-com!brunix!jss
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Title: a puzzle
Article-I.D.: brunix.1267
Posted: Wed Jan 19 22:17:57 1983
Received: Sun Feb  6 02:54:16 1983

two english words which are spelled the same, pronounced the same,
have different meanings and completely diffferent etymologies. one
comes from Latin, the other from German. Shakespeare used them for
a well-known pun.

judith schrier
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