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- n two words are homonyms if they are pronounced or spelled the same way but have different meanings
- Its best-selling tee reads DELAY NO MORE, a homonym of a Cantonese phrase so raunchy that one newspaper refused to publish the tagline in an advertisement.
- This fashion and homeware label the initials are a homonym of the Cantonese phrase "live better" was founded in 1996.
- In Japanese, kano is a homonym for a word meaning possible.