A linguistic fancy
Dec. 26th, 2008 05:48 pmIntuitively it seems like there should be a large number of such pairs, but
Polish (people from Poland) and polish (to give a shine to)
Moor (ancient Arabs) and moor (a marshy type of land)
Reading (city name) and reading (the act of consuming a book)
Can my erudite readers come up with more such pairs?
ETA: WotW has two good ones in comments, and there's a whole class of people names that fit the rule but that I hadn't thought of.