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[–] [email protected] 175 points 1 day ago (3 children)

"Like a kid in a candy store", kid = baby goat instead of human child.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 day ago

I should start saying “like a goat in a candy store”

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

homonyms are words that sound the same but have different meanings. Their/there/they're are classic examples.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That's a homophone, a homonym is a word that is spelled and pronounced the same but has different meanings, like "tap" as in "faucet" and "tap" as in the action of tapping a surface.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Technically, it is a homonym. Homonyms are separated into two categories, homophones (sound the same but spelled differently, such as they're/their/there) and homographs, which are spelled the same but have different meanings, such as lead (the metal) and lead (the verb).

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I thought it was store (shop) and store (storage) but yours makes more sense