Help!

[ed_rex]

My google-fu has failed me.

First one of you Gentle Readers to remind of the word for "a word with more than one meaning" gets a cookie. Hell, let's make it a whole batch — I started looking for it two or three days ago and its nowhere to be found.

[Edit, including a change of icon for appropriateness: It's "homonym", of course. Thanks to a couple of folks over at Facebook, Ken and also Marnina, who so seldom graces my LJ friends' page anymore that I've forgotten her username.]

Comments

More meanings!

[paul-carlson.livejournal.com]

What is the word with the most homonyms?

(It has more than 200, in a good dictionary.)

Re: More meanings!

[ed-rex.livejournal.com]

You're a cruel man, Mr. Carlson; and my google-fu failed me again? If I beg and plead, will you just tell me there answer?

Re: More meanings!

[paul-carlson.livejournal.com]

The word is "set."

My writer's group did some goofing around with that versatile word, plus several of the runners-up.

http://www.cuebon.com/ewriters/fun.html

Re: More meanings!

[ed-rex.livejournal.com]

That's hilarious (and book-marked!). Thank you.

Great icon...

[spells-disaster.livejournal.com]

I <3 pig

Re: Great icon...

[ed-rex.livejournal.com]

Feel free to steal, if you like; credit would be nice, but its Pascis(?) who deserves the real credit anyway. (I cracked up for something like 10 minutes the first time I read that particular episode; in principle I hate puns, but ... damn.)

Re: Great icon...

[spells-disaster.livejournal.com]

I have a collection of Pascis work. Cant believe he was a lawyer who decided to draw. I think the world's a better more sarcastic place for it.