Passing by the Corium Bubulum of the Classical Ancients, we see in an old charter, dated 1036, Stallus Sutoris Vaccæ, i. e. the stall of a shoe-maker who used cow-skin.

Such effects were reproduced by Dijkstra et al. (1999) on homophonic (but not homographic) Dutch–English words (e.g. leaf, homophonous of the Dutch word lief -gentle-). […] English-Afrikaans bilinguals produced more errors and took longer to accept homophonous heterographic words (e.g. lake-lyk) than to accept homographic heterophonous words (e.g. kind, meaning child in Afrikaans) […]

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He closed his mouth as in resignation, 'Well, can you sing and play the pianny-forty?' 'Yes, fairly well.' 'Famblies don't want fairly well, they want bang-up.' .