(crosspost)

[pilfered_words]

(Responding to this post about similar-looking words with very different meanings)

Russian doesn’t use diacritics, but that doesn’t stop us! There is a pair of verbs, both spelled писать (pisat’), that differ only in which syllable is stressed. 

 

писАть (pisAt’), with the stress on the second syllable, means to write.

 

пИсать (pIsat’), with the stress on the first syllable means to pee.