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Lesson #232 (Part 2): Homographs in ‘Bleak House’: English words that are spelled the same but are not related

Welcome to Part 2 of our Lesson on homographs! In Part 1 we already looked at what homographs mean (quick reminder: they are words that are spelled the same but have different meanings and often different pronunciations). We also covered some key homographs in the English language, starting with those word pairs that share the […]

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Lesson #232 (Part 1): Homographs in ‘Bleak House’: English words that are spelled the same but are not related

How familiar are you with homographs? 🤔 You might not recognise at first what a homograph means, but you have probably been using them (or at least noticing them) without even realising it! Homographs are basically words that are spelled the same but have different meanings. ✍️ Sometimes these word pairs are related because they

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