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Kristina Gopp's fourth-graders at O'Plaine School in Gurnee asked, “What's the difference between a homonym and a homophone and a homograph?” Is it an animal, vegetable or mineral? In the game ...

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While trying to catch up with a huge backlog of recent email and potential blog topics, I came across this article that Graham Cluley posted a few days ago on Internationalized Domain Name (IDN) ...

“Walk” and “stroll” are synonyms. “Tall” and “short” are antonyms. So what are “dove” and “dove” if one is a bird and the other is the past tense of the verb “to dive”? Did you say “homonyms”? Good ...