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-A total of 96 MTL words that are homonyms were found in the [[Maryknoll Taiwanese-English Dictionary]]. This happens because of loss of tone information when syllables are put together to form a word ([[tone sandhi]]). In general, these words are two syllables, where the first syllable's citation tone is either tone 1 (high) or tone 5 (curving-up). Therefore two distinct words in [[POJ]] can map to the same word in MTL.
+There is a relatively small number of MTL words that can be converted to more than one valid [[POJ]] word. This happens because of loss of tone information when syllables are put together to form a word ([[tone sandhi]]).
-Combined with data from [[TBSS]], the total number increases to 125 MTL words:
+A total of 96 MTL words with this property were found in the [[Maryknoll Taiwanese-English Dictionary]]. In general, they are two syllables, where the first syllable's citation tone is either tone 1 (high) or tone 5 (curving-up).
+The following list of 125 MTL words includes data from both Maryknoll and [[TSS]]:
 *{{xl|chiauzheg}}