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|| RICHNESS OF A LANGUAGE ||

The word 'Richness' sounds similar (almost similar) but is spelled differently and meant differently than the word 'Reachness'.

Even the word 'Than' sounds similar (almost similar) but is spelled and meant differently than the word 'Then'.

Other examples are:

Night and Knight

Might and Mite

Bag and Beg

Wear and Ware and Where

Bad and Bed

Not and Knot

Way and Weigh and Whey

Weight and Wait

Year and Ear

Weak and Week

We and Wee

Two and Too and To

Dad and Dead

Son and Sun

Premier and Premiere

Scrap and Scrape

Wine and Vine and Whine

Very and Vary

Leather and Lather

Weather and Whether

Letter and Latter and Later

Waste and Waist and West

Pray and Prey

Tot and Tote

Waive and wave

Vent and Went

Vet and Wet

Write and Right.

The word 'Right' sounds similar, spelled similar but is meant differently.

    One 'right' is as in Left and Right, another right is as in Wrong and Right.

Same way, the word 'Dear' sounds and spelled similar but meant differently.

    One 'dear' is as in Dear Hunt while other dear is as in Dear Friend.

Other examples are:

Mine and Mine

Band and Band

Light and Light

Bat and Bat

Well and Well

Lock and Lock

Trunk and Trunk

School and School

Top and Top

Homonyms are the words that have the same pronunciation and often tha same spelling but different meanings.

What do you call this - richness or flaws?

An amazing wealth of words and synonyms gives a great versatility to expression power.

Some languages of the world, for example, Sanskrit has 65 words for Earth and 70 for Water (each word being original, not derived from any other language).

Language should have power of expressing all types of thoughts in their appropriate terminology - from Anatomy to Zoology and Science to Philosophy.

Do you know any language in the world in which there are words with unparallel or unpaired sound, spelling and meaning?

Do you know any language in the world which is nearly perfect, if not perfect?

Sometimes a word has the same or nearly the same meaning as another word. They are called synonyms.

For example, the word rapid is a synonym for quick.

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