Speech Accent Archive. Wordorigins.org. Alan Cooper's All About Homonyms. Go to The List About the List When I was in the second grade, my teacher introduced me to "homonyms," those words, like "caret" and "carrot" that are pronounced the same, but are spelled differently, and that have different meanings.
The concept intrigued me, and for months, I maintained a dog-eared pad of yellow paper with an ever-growing list of homonyms.