Holy homonyms, Batman!

Add comment May 8th, 2009

My previous blog entry ended with the word “see.” Not only is it a very irregular verb — see, saw, seen, seeing — but it’s also part of an unusually diverse family of homonyms.

For “see,” we have “sea” and the letter “C” (as well as the Spanish “si”).

For the third-person singular “sees,” we have the plurals “seas” and “C’s,” and we add the verb “seize.”

For the past participle “seen,” we lose the others but gain the noun “scene.”

Unlike children, homonyms should be seen and heard.