ABSTRACT
Although there are many words that have more than one meaning, 1 ambiguities are in practice rather rare, and indeed a certain amount of ingenuity is necessary in many cases even to demonstrate that ambiguity is possible. This is true whether the polysemy exists (1) in the spoken form alone or (2) in the written form alone or (3) in both, as we can illustrate with textbook pairs like:
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