Homonymy in English

English Homonymy is the topic of a great interest. It is fact that Modern English is abundant in homonyms - there are hundreds of pairs of them in the English language and no common points of view on such phenomenon as homonymy exist among the lexicologists. A lot of heated arguments are held for the general description of this phenomenon, various principles of classification are given by different specialists, classificatory schemes are being intensively discussed but the point of contact is not achieved at all. That is why the problem of investigation of homonyms is very important in English Lexicology.