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    John Lennon (category Deaths by firearm in Manhattan)
    nonsense to see how well Lennon has brought it off. While some of his homonyms are gratuitous word play, many others have not only double meaning but...
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    to feature the rabbit that would evolve into Bugs Bunny. The title is a homonym with an old nonsense expression — "harum-scarum", meaning reckless or irresponsible...
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  • after their home prefecture. If both a prefecture and its capital are homonyms, the club can be said to represent both. Japan Ehime F.C., F.C. Gifu, Tochigi...
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    pronunciation fuku is more common instead of the modern fugu. The former is also a homonym for good fortune whereas the latter is one for disabled. The Tsukiji fish...
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  • Bird on a Wire. To prepare for his role, James Woods followed his quasi-homonym, NYPD lieutenant James Wood, on the job, wearing a bulletproof vest. Wood...
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    same as puns, which play on the varied means of a word or phrase or the homonyms thereof. "How many of these great female thinkers have you heard of?"....
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    be translated as "the castle" or "the palace", but the German word is a homonym that can also refer to a lock. It is also phonetically close to der Schluss...
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  • Nina Svetlanova (category Manhattan School of Music faculty)
    Juilliard's Ellen and James S. Marcus Institute for Vocal Arts. N.B. She is homonym to "Nina [Aleksandrovna Nikolayeva-]Svetlanova", who was the second wife...
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    while others dismiss them as verbose.[citation needed] His frequent use of homonyms exacerbates this. Critics state that the use of words can be so detailed...
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    Emperor's birthday. "Sugarcane" (Chinese: 甘蔗; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kam-chià) is a near homonym to "thank you" (Chinese: 感謝; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kám-siā) in the Hokkien dialect...
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