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Merriam-Webster lists 7 adjective forms, 2 adverb forms, 3 noun forms, and 3 verb forms. That’s definitely a lot of definitions for a word.

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English is a fine language

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You say that, but I think it’s rather thick

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Thick like sexual?

“Damn English you thicker than a bowl of oatmeal” thick?

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Try get, put, run, or go. Those in my second language I’m constantly translating wrong because of how many different definition for those words there are. ‘Put’ has to be over 100 different definitions.

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According to QI, “set” has the most definitions

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Once you set up this set of objects on the set, we’ll be all set for the Set festival and the band can play its set.

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"But your honor, I parked my car there because the sign said ‘fine for parking.’ "

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That’s why the police complimented you with “parking fine”

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English isn’t a language, it’s a mistake

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It’s fine.

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And you ask your girlfriend how she’s feeling and she says “fine”, buckle up.

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“The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don’t just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.”

James D. Nicoll

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