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No.arildno said:
ingenuous - in jen you us
Ingenious - in jeen ee us.
What Are Words That Are Their Own Antonyms?
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ingenuous - in jen you us
Ingenious - in jeen ee us.
Jimmy Snyder
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Polish and Polish comes to mind. That doesn't look right, I should have started with the upper case one. How about a noun that changes from plural to singular by adding an s at the end.lisab said:
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Also Brat and Brat!jimmysnyder said:
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Well one is also a http://webmaster.beverleypaine.com/images/new_brat.jpg
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August and august, but it's not a sausage.
Bucket and bucket (to Hyacinth anyway)
I looked these up. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_case_sensitive_English_words
Job, job
Natal, natal
Ranier, ranier
Herb, herb
Nice, nice
Reading, reading
Tangier, tangier.
Bucket and bucket (to Hyacinth anyway)
I looked these up. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_case_sensitive_English_words
Job, job
Natal, natal
Ranier, ranier
Herb, herb
Nice, nice
Reading, reading
Tangier, tangier.
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Both words are uncapitalized.Gokul43201 said:Also Brat and Brat!
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Moot.
My mother claims that nowadays it's used to mean something that's irrelevent/resolved, so it doesn't need to be discussed ("a moot point"), but I first met the word when Tolkein uses it with its older meaning: a long discussion of a tricky topic ("an Entmoot").
On a similar note:
Mall (as in shopping mall) and maul (as into wound horribly) are from the same root:
There used to be a rather violent sport (used to be. snort. whatever.) which managed to bequeath its name both to the wooden clubs with which it was played (maul) and playing field on which it was played (mall). From the noun maul, the verb to maul was a natural consequence. The playing field also lent out its name, coming to mean any wide, smooth grassy area (there's a National Mall in Washington, D.C.), which in turn leant itself to any wide, open area, even an enclosed one with lots of stores inside.
My mother claims that nowadays it's used to mean something that's irrelevent/resolved, so it doesn't need to be discussed ("a moot point"), but I first met the word when Tolkein uses it with its older meaning: a long discussion of a tricky topic ("an Entmoot").
On a similar note:
Mall (as in shopping mall) and maul (as into wound horribly) are from the same root:
There used to be a rather violent sport (used to be. snort. whatever.) which managed to bequeath its name both to the wooden clubs with which it was played (maul) and playing field on which it was played (mall). From the noun maul, the verb to maul was a natural consequence. The playing field also lent out its name, coming to mean any wide, smooth grassy area (there's a National Mall in Washington, D.C.), which in turn leant itself to any wide, open area, even an enclosed one with lots of stores inside.
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Poop-Loops said:
Alas, "irregardless" is, indeed, a word. Look it up.