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Words sometimes having two meanings has been alluded to in the literature as early as 1971.


Am I missing a joke here or something? Surely people knew about homonyms prior to 1971


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stairway_to_Heaven


Which is itself a name collision with an earlier Neil Sedaka song.


This page makes no reference to any synonyms. Can you explain?


Lyrics:

And she's buying a stairway to heaven There's a sign on the wall But she wants to be sure 'Cause you know, sometimes words have two meanings


The lyrics of the song include: “sometimes words have two meanings”


We knew about them, but we didn't talk about it.


I think we had metaphors before that?




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