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"Snot Otter" - my new favorite animal name.
Nickname for an Eastern hellbender salamander.
 
I've been thinking about words that are spelled the same, pertain to same subject, but are pronounced differently. Like "live" the verb and "live" the adjective. I have a vague recall that "forte" is pronounced with the "e" (as "a") in music but without sounding the "e" where reference is to a skill in another field. Need to check OED next library trip. These seem hard to come by.
Bob
 
Another bit of word fun:

flammable
inflammable

they mean the same thing.
 
And of course phonetic to describe pronouncing words the way they sound.
 
When the Missus & I are in the grocery store and it's time to go to the produce isle, I tell her "It's time to produce some produce."
 
I shall abuse him for his frequent abuse!

His abuses during August don't make him such an august leader, sadly.

His august personality leads him to overeat at the morning buffets, while the wind buffets the drapes.

She placed the buffet at the entrance, so she could entrance the guests.

Not for one minute was she able to observe a minute bit of misbehavior.

Elliot moped frequently, after his moped was stolen.

(OK - I'll show myself out ...)
 
Thanks Bob! but how does that rule apply to Basil's first post?
 
such as ... frazzled!
 
Then there's this.
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Pedro lived in a country in South America and he loved to make chili using New Mexico's Hatch green chile. One day he forgot to turn the stove on, so the Chile chile chili was chilly.
 
Basil said:
Pedro lived in a country in South America and he loved to make chili using New Mexico's Hatch green chile. One day he forgot to turn the stove on, so the Chile chile chili was chilly.
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Don't you have another room to rehab? :popworm::smile:
 
And twisting the rules a bit ...

I traded my fresh carrot for a one carat diamond, suspended on a 24 karat gold chain - not 24^2!

(Sure is hard to find a mathematics caret symbol!)

OK - back to my cave.
 
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