Monday 5 September 2011

Prodigal heteronym (paired)

words spelled the same but pronounced differently, according to meaning, used in pairs

Younger son asks for his inheritance. Dad cashes his savings and proceeds to give him the proceeds. Mouth agape at this agape love, the son decides to appropriate the appropriate funds, and his father does not verbally object to his son being a greedy object. The boy manages to collect with having to say a collect. He gives a bow, puts on a bow tie (although he has to ask a maid to be a tier and arrange the folds of material over each tier of his dress shirt), and decides to close the door and go to a city that isn’t close. He reckons he will desert the farm and cross the savannah, the jungle and the desert.
       
On his way, there are no female deers, so naturally he does not see any does. His cash is soon gone, and he has to refuse refuse girls new stockings (he’s a denier denier). The food runs out, so he weeps and rends his clothes (tears, with tears) and beats himself in punishment for desiring a meal (buffets due to lack of buffets). In a minute, he comes to his senses, and feels minute before a mighty God and several large pigs.
       
Then he patches his clothes, even while he’s in a waste-water pipe (he’s a sewer in a sewer), and thus he dismisses his illness — he considers that being an invalid is invalid. He’s wound a bandage tightly over the wound.
       
He returns slowly to his home – far from taking a moped, he moped. On his journey, he’s keen to amaze and entrance his father at the farm with a speech, but while still a long way from the entrance, the father kisses his son, an intimate act to intimate his acceptance of the lad.  He represents his shoes to him, along with a ring, which represents sonship. The father remembers that the boy took all his cash, but even though he can recollect, he does not attempt to recollect.
       
He’s so proud of his son that he throws an indoor-golf-themed party, putting him up for the pitch and putting.
       
‘Yes, there’s a fine line between lost and found. But rejoice! We thought he was dead, but obviously, he’s fine! We can close the issue now he’s close by.’
       
Some partygoers take a dip in the sea, where the band plays, and while divers divers make a splash, the bass (and carp) listen to the double bass (without criticising). The servants form a workers’ co-operative, which makes them properly unionized, but of course avoid becoming electrically-charged atoms, which means they stay unionized.

proceeds     begins / money from a transaction
agape  open-mouthed: er-gayp / unconditional love: ag-erpay
appropriate  take for himself / correct, suitable
object  argue against / thing, target, purpose
collect   gather / short prayer
bow   bending from the waist / formal neckwear
tier   one who knots: tie-er / one of several layers: tee-er
close    shut / near
desert    abandon / arid plain
does    action: duz / multiple female deer: doughz
refuse    unwilling: ree-f’yuz / rubbish: reff-yooz
denier    fine mesh: den-iay / one who withholds: dee-nigh-ah
tears    multiple rips / lachrymosity; salty drops
buffets    repeatedly strikes: buff-etz / multiple occurances of finger food: boo-fays
minute    60 seconds / tiny
sewer    needleperson: so-er /  waste water outflow: soo-er
invalid      sick person: in-verlid / flawed; not binding: in-vall-id
wound     wrapped in coils /  cut or sore
moped    small-engined bike / gloomy dawdling
entrance       captivate / doorway
intimate    private, personal hint at
represents     offers again / symbolizes
recollect      remember  / gather again
putting     placing: poot-ing  / golf shot on the green: puh-ting
divers   various (archaic spelling) / high headfirst leapers
bass     species of fish: bas / low-toned instrument: bay-ss
unionised       formed a workers’ collective: u-nion-ised /
                            not electrically charged: un-ion-ised

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