English!

Reading John Cassidy's column on the New Yorker site, I saw the following:

He "yousst" to go.  But then I read the full sentence:

Now I see he "youzzd" the law to go after mobsters.  Do persons learning English as a second language get told about that?  Same word, different pronunciation, depending on whether it's a verb?  

Speaking of which, here's a list, likely only partial, of words in English that are pronounced differently depending on their meaning:

To associate

An associate

To delegate

A delegate

To duplicate

A duplicate

To separate

A separate item

To appropriate

An appropriate reaction

Invalid

An invalid

His conduct

To conduct

A contract

To contract

A present

To present

A convict

To convict

A conflict

To conflict

To confine

The friendly confines

To combine

A combine

To close

Too close for comfort

To estimate

An estimate

I suspect

A suspect

A subject

To subject

To moderate

A moderate

To compact

A compact

To syndicate

A syndicate

To record a record album