Funny as Tautonyms
Tautonym is a word or name made of two identical parts or repeated words, example TOMTOM, MAMA, BYE-BYE. Do you know any Tautonyms ?
Normally a Tautanym is pronounced same word twice, but there is a special Tautonym _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ which is pronounced differently. But ofcourse, you never listened to your English teacher, did you ?
Normally a Tautanym is pronounced same word twice, but there is a special Tautonym _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ which is pronounced differently. But ofcourse, you never listened to your English teacher, did you ?
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posted by Rajesh Lal at
8:05 AM
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no... no i never did listen to my english teacher =] we both liked it that way
Of course papa ;-) or bonbon.
Then Dodo and -by the way- there are really a lot of other animals being named as a teutonym(> 80) when genus and species are the same (e.g. "Alces alces" (Moose) ).
What about "PiriPiri" (some pepper) or Kulukulu (a village in Fiji) or GasGas (a motorcycle brand)?
I'm sure there are really lots to find
Wiki-Wiki is Hawaiian for "quickly."
I never learned about these words, because i was to busy filling in the blanks in my class. Tautonym Tautonym is the answer. Second one is pronounced differently
Rattus rattus
{its a rat}
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