“If you come out of school incapable of that I couldn't give two hoots if you know a homonym from a syno-nym or a molecule from a particle.”

“Trogini based on Trogus is a junior homonym of Trogidae MacLeay, 1819, based on the coleopterous genus Trox Fabricius.”

“In 1895 C.S. Sargent assigned it the name R. michauxii to correct Michaux's use of a homonym and to honor its discoverer.”

“But, beyond that, homonymy seems to have been, even for Plato, no more than a source of ambiguity for wordplay.”

“We have relations of meaning such as synonymy and antonymy, polysemy and homonymy, ways of organizing the vocabulary.”

“These concern the distinction between polysemy and homonymy, and between polysemy and monosemy.”

“Each court reporter might use different conventions to represent homonyms or other ambiguous words.”

“Much of the chatter derives from the abundance of homonyms in Chinese, where a single sound can carry many meanings.”

“The pun lost status in English, despite a wealth of homonyms.”