Word: homonym
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...another's rosy 2+3+4. In fact, 4 was the divine tetraktys for Pythagoras, and we comfort ourselves still with 4 seasons, 4 directions and 4 elements. Yet in China there are 5 of each -- not least, perhaps, because the character for 4 is a homonym of the character for death (and even now, in many Far Eastern hotels, a fourth floor is as rare as a 13th...