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Slew is a homograph. It can have wi dely different meanings with the same spelling. 

Billy Bob slew a slew of snakes by the slew.

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A homograph can also be pronounced a different way, so if I was teaching using your example I'd call it a homonym since they are pronounced exactly the same way but have different meanings. Isn't the English language grand? Teaching the /u_e/ /oo/ /ew/ /ou/ /ui/ sound spelling rules can be super confusing for students (and teachers if they aren't given a specific phonics course to follow). 

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I have a slew of cats: five indoor Rambo, Cleo, Jeb, Rebel and Sonny and two outdoors Tigger and Sheba.

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14 minutes ago, JamesSavik said:

I have a slew of cats: five indoor Rambo, Cleo, Jeb, Rebel and Sonny and two outdoors Tigger and Sheba.

I had a slew of cats too. They all had radically different personalities.

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2 hours ago, Cia said:

A homograph can also be pronounced a different way, so if I was teaching using your example I'd call it a homonym since they are pronounced exactly the same way but have different meanings. Isn't the English language grand? Teaching the /u_e/ /oo/ /ew/ /ou/ /ui/ sound spelling rules can be super confusing for students (and teachers if they aren't given a specific phonics course to follow). 

Imagine what a non-native speaker, accustomed to Spanish where we know how everything's pronounced on sight,goes through. To this day, I struggle.

Funniest faux pas ever? English Honors in eleventh grade. Mr Rupple's showing a film, and I read the first word on screen out loud. Problem was I pronounced FOCUS as fuck us.  Cue universal laughter.

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4 hours ago, Carlos Hazday said:

Imagine what a non-native speaker, accustomed to Spanish where we know how everything's pronounced on sight,goes through. To this day, I struggle.

Funniest faux pas ever? English Honors in eleventh grade. Mr Rupple's showing a film, and I read the first word on screen out loud. Problem was I pronounced FOCUS as fuck us.  Cue universal laughter.

The poor guy I met named Fuqua in college  probably never forgot my admittedly intentional mispronunciation of his name.

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5 hours ago, Carlos Hazday said:

Imagine what a non-native speaker, accustomed to Spanish where we know how everything's pronounced on sight,goes through. To this day, I struggle.

Funniest faux pas ever? English Honors in eleventh grade. Mr Rupple's showing a film, and I read the first word on screen out loud. Problem was I pronounced FOCUS as fuck us.  Cue universal laughter.

The common one was in our Spanish class and asking how old you are (años) and not pronouncing the tilde (~).  Though, on a gay site, having 45 anuses instead of 45 years might be a thing...

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