Timeline for Longest English homophone/heteronym chain
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| Jun 11, 2023 at 10:50 | answer | added | isaacg | timeline score: 7 | |
| Jun 11, 2023 at 9:24 | answer | added | Nilay Ghosh | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jun 10, 2023 at 18:34 | vote | accept | bhh | ||
| Jun 9, 2023 at 15:14 | comment | added | Toby Speight | And using plurals gives one extra at the other end - bowse. | |
| Jun 9, 2023 at 5:48 | comment | added | Toby Speight | The example could be extended by prepending beau /bəʊ/. | |
| Jun 9, 2023 at 5:12 | answer | added | Toby Speight | timeline score: 21 | |
| Jun 9, 2023 at 3:11 | comment | added | Davis Yoshida | @AustinHemmelgarn If they don't need to alternate I think Chinese would probably beat English due to the huge amount of characters with same pronounciation | |
| Jun 9, 2023 at 1:36 | comment | added | Austin Hemmelgarn | Shortest chain is possibly Toki Pona, a minimalist conlang with a lexicon of only 120 words and no chains of length greater than 1 (it has no homophones at all, and theoretically no heteronyms if you strictly adhere to the official semantics of the language), though that might be cheating. My guess is that English probably has the longest as it has what is, AFAIK, the most etymologically diverse lexicon of any modern language. | |
| Jun 8, 2023 at 22:19 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Jun 8, 2023 at 21:12 | comment | added | Showsni | Are common acronyms or abbreviations allowed? Things like ASCII, NASA, radar for acronyms, or things like can't, admin, merch for abbreviations. | |
| Jun 8, 2023 at 16:19 | history | edited | bhh | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 8, 2023 at 16:18 | comment | added | bhh | @nuclear-hoagie thanks for the correction! | |
| Jun 8, 2023 at 16:18 | comment | added | bhh | @hexomino, no requirement to alternate. | |
| Jun 8, 2023 at 16:03 | comment | added | Nuclear Hoagie | I don't think you just want homographs, which are words that are merely spelled the same (inviting words that have many definitions but one way of being pronounced). You want heteronyms, which are words that are spelled the same but have different pronunciations and meanings. | |
| Jun 8, 2023 at 15:06 | answer | added | JGibbers | timeline score: 10 | |
| Jun 8, 2023 at 14:50 | answer | added | hexomino | timeline score: 12 | |
| S Jun 8, 2023 at 14:19 | review | First questions | |||
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| S Jun 8, 2023 at 14:19 | history | asked | bhh | CC BY-SA 4.0 |