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Date: 2007-01-11 04:09 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gareth-rees.livejournal.com
There was (and maybe still is) a phonetics lecturer at Cambridge who merged tar, tower, and tire, and (quite deliberately, I'm sure) used these words as his canonical examples of homonyms in English.

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