[Xmca-l] Re: dappled

[Greg Thompson]

Andy,
I'm dappled by your question and I perish the thought that I couldn't
understand a post of yours.

So, I'm not sure if I know what these words you speak of "mean".

-greg

On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 12:00 AM, Andy Blunden <ablunden@mira.net> wrote:

> I have a trivial question for the linguists on this list.
> Do you have a word for words like "dappled" and "perished" (or dapple and
> perish) which can describe only one thing (shade and rubber respectively)?
>
> Andy
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