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Is there any difference between the words 格好 and 恰好? Can I actually call them
different words, or is it that they are just the same word written
differently? I've been told that they have exactly the same meaning by a
native, but possibly someone here might know a difference.

In the sentence:

> 朝みた時と同じ恰好で立っていた。

Would there be any difference in replacing the compound with 格好? If not, then
why are there two currently existent "words" for the same concept?
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What is the difference between 恰好 and 格好?
[This page on alternative renderings of kanji
compounds](http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%90%8C%E9%9F%B3%E3%81%AE%E6%BC%A2%E5%AD%97%E3%81%AB%E3%82%88%E3%82%8B%E6%9B%B8%E3%81%8D%E3%81%8B%E3%81%88)
says that in order to simplify the kanji set, some compounds which contained
uncommon kanji had components replaced with common homophonous kanji.

One set of changes was promulgated by the 国語審議会 in 1956, but the page also
lists a number of changes which came into _de facto_ use. 恰好→格好 is one such
pair.

In many cases (for example 毀損→棄損), the homophony is only true in Japanese, and
doesn't hold or no longer holds in Chinese. As such, some of the resulting
compounds, which were originally common with Chinese, look a bit odd to
Chinese readers.

The page also has a good list of [homophonous compounds whose meanings are
often
confused](http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%90%8C%E9%9F%B3%E3%81%AE%E6%BC%A2%E5%AD%97%E3%81%AB%E3%82%88%E3%82%8B%E6%9B%B8%E3%81%8D%E3%81%8B%E3%81%88#.E5.85.83.E3.80.85.E7.95.B0.E3.81.AA.E3.82.8B.E6.84.8F.E5.91.B3.E3.81.AE.E7.86.9F.E8.AA.9E.E3.81.8C.E6.9B.B8.E3.81.8D.E6.8F.9B.E3.81.88.E3.81.AA.E3.81.A9.E3.81.AB.E3.82.88.E3.82.8A.E3.80.81.E6.B7.B7.E5.90.8C.E3.81.97.E3.81.A6.E3.81.84.E3.82.8B.E4.BE.8B).
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