Both "municipal" and "private" are pronounced "shiritsu". How does this not cause a lot of confusion?

[NLeseul]

I was going to say that pitch accent probably helps in spoken language… but the Pitch Accent info script tells me that both 私立 and 市立 have 頭高 (front-accented) pitch accent patterns. So… ¯\_(ツ)_/¯