As joking about German words works incredibly well in English, here’s the original:
There you go. Now you can be sure that the joke’s just as funny as originally intended.
As joking about German words works incredibly well in English, here’s the original:
There you go. Now you can be sure that the joke’s just as funny as originally intended.
Context being required to know what a word means? I give you English:
Bark, bank, bat, bear, bolt, bow, box, break, can, chair, change, charge, check, chip, clip, club, cold, crane, date, deck, die, down, dress, fair, fall, fast, file, fine, firm, fit, fly, foot, foul, jam, kind, lean, left, light, lie, like, match, mean, minute, mold, nail, novel, park, part, pen, plane, pound, race, right, rock, rose, scale, seal, spring, square, stalk, staple, stick, strike, tender, tire, trip, type, watch, wave, well, wind, yard.
Is there an alphabetical list of ambiguous terms somewhere or did you spend way too long on this (and I respect you for it)?
They’re called homnyms. A quick internet search probably does yield a list.
Just a quick ChatGPT query, sorry.