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But unfortunately for them “Copilot” in 2022 means GH Copilot.

Unfortunately for Joel Spolsky / Fog Creek Copilot[1] remote control tool from ~2005, and for people who fly aeroplanes[2] from 1933.

Words sometimes having two meanings has been alluded to in the literature as early as 1971.

I think we had metaphors before that?

Am I missing a joke here or something? Surely people knew about homonyms prior to 1971

We knew about them, but we didn't talk about it.

Which is itself a name collision with an earlier Neil Sedaka song.

This page makes no reference to any synonyms. Can you explain?

The lyrics of the song include: “sometimes words have two meanings”

Lyrics:

And she's buying a stairway to heaven There's a sign on the wall But she wants to be sure 'Cause you know, sometimes words have two meanings