Someone other than the writer thinks that the way "colonel" is pronounced shows that the English language is _____. According to the writer, if it is Saturday today, next Monday should be the day _____. The word that the writer is questioning when he talks about the newspaper story is "_____". The writer uses the word "pretty" as an example to show that in English, quite a few words have _____ though the spelling is the same. In the last line of the passage, the word "nuances" means _____ in meaning.