Passing by the Corium Bubulum of the Classical Ancients, we see in an old charter, dated 1036, Stallus Sutoris Vaccæ, i. e. the stall of a shoe-maker who used cow-skin.

The Great Seal of the State of New York

Such effects were reproduced by Dijkstra et al. (1999) on homophonic (but not homographic) Dutch–English words (e.g. leaf, homophonous of the Dutch word lief -gentle-). […] English-Afrikaans bilinguals produced more errors and took longer to accept homophonous heterographic words (e.g. lake-lyk) than to accept homographic heterophonous words (e.g. kind, meaning child in Afrikaans) […]

He closed his mouth as in resignation, 'Well, can you sing and play the pianny-forty?' 'Yes, fairly well.' 'Famblies don't want fairly well, they want bang-up.' .