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super cool!  Economical English: the hidden connections between
homonyms  English is famous for being littered with synonyms.
Sometimes the number of words we have for a single thing seems
almost greedy (not to mention extravagant, hedonistic, decadent,
lavish, immoderate, ostentatious, and sybaritic). The dual
threads of Germanic and Romance languages that form the basis of
the English lexicon are largely to blame for its profligacy, as
well as that cheerful habit that Anglophones have of adopting
terms from other tongues.  On the other hand, English can also
surprise us by being peculiarly economical, employing one word
to mean several things almost as often as it uses dozens to mean
just one. Sometimes, the multiple origins of the English
language account for instances where two very distinct
definitions are found for a single word. For example, we have
the Germanic route to thank for an ear