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Old 03-27-2014, 07:52 PM   #11 (permalink)
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Old 03-27-2014, 09:22 PM   #12 (permalink)
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"We"kipedia does, according to what's on the alloy page.
That particular page was about "alloy wheels" which in the common vernacular means aluminum/magnesium based wheels. Consumers being easily swayed by fancy terms like "alloy" and marketers being oblivious to the fact that the steel wheels already were alloy.

Of course iron alloys are reasonably well summarized in wikipedia as well:
List of alloys - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This conversation reminds me of the fact that there is no such thing as "cold" and "dark". Yet, when people use these words, we know what they mean.
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Can someone tell me where I can get a good pair of solid lead wheels?
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Do you mean "lead" (as in Pb) or carbon fiber?
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1) There are words that SOUND the same, but have different meanings.
2) There are words that SPELL the same, but have different meanings

LEAD = as in to lead the way
LEAD = as in plumbum (Latin) metal
LEED = as in city of LEEDS.

SEW = as in sew with needle & thread
SOW = as to spread one's sperm
SO = as in "so what"
SOW = as in female pig
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1) There are words that SOUND the same, but have different meanings.
2) There are words that SPELL the same, but have different meanings
3) Amazingly, there are also words that SPELL different, but have the SAME meaning!
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This thread inspires me to start a business selling alloy wheels, which my customers will be delighted to discover are made of a steel alloy.
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This thread just makes me think of people going to ATM MACHINES. I can't help it.

"You're going to an automatic teller machine machine? What's that?"

At one of my jobs, we have an identification number. The abbreviation is LLN (letter, letter, Number)- yet people constantly say "my LLN Number." I can't help it.

"Your letter letter number number? What's that?"

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