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Homonyms
'Bat' is two unrelated words
Homonyms share spelling and sound but come from different origins. The flying bat and the wooden bat arrived in English separately.
Homonyms
'Lead' is a word with two lives
Spelled the same but pronounced differently, lead the metal and lead the verb are heteronyms, a special kind of homograph.
Homonyms
'Bank' has two separate roots
The river bank comes from a Norse word for ridge, the money bank from Italian banca, a moneylender's bench.