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Erik Mesoy
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mwahaha, a lot of this is funny but loads of stuff is common misconceptions, and some are mistakes.
14: How about aftercataracts? (Referred by Making the Alphabet Dance, a very nice book)
@Darius: Try subbookkeeper for 4 sets. Same book, btw.
42: Not even close. With the conditional modifier of "adjectives ending in -gry" you'd be closer, but meagry is an old english word meaning "meager". See also Beggry (peel), Conyngry or Cony-gry (rabbit warren), and Skuggry (secrecy). Same book again, yes, I have too much free time...
82: Tied with dermatoglyphics. (Yes, this is also in Making the Alphabet Dance.)
83: The book ALSO cites examples of a word containing all the vowels once in ANY order. Go on. Pick an order, I'll find the word.
86: Fairly old hat. Write a pangram instead.
Also, you can arrange the letters AIRT or AGIN in any order, and there will be a word containing that fragment.
Also, the words ambuscade and prizefighting contain ABCDE and EFGHI respectively, in order.
Just my 0.02, thought perhaps some of this will increase the list size...
14: How about aftercataracts? (Referred by Making the Alphabet Dance, a very nice book)
@Darius: Try subbookkeeper for 4 sets. Same book, btw.
42: Not even close. With the conditional modifier of "adjectives ending in -gry" you'd be closer, but meagry is an old english word meaning "meager". See also Beggry (peel), Conyngry or Cony-gry (rabbit warren), and Skuggry (secrecy). Same book again, yes, I have too much free time...
82: Tied with dermatoglyphics. (Yes, this is also in Making the Alphabet Dance.)
83: The book ALSO cites examples of a word containing all the vowels once in ANY order. Go on. Pick an order, I'll find the word.
86: Fairly old hat. Write a pangram instead.
Also, you can arrange the letters AIRT or AGIN in any order, and there will be a word containing that fragment.
Also, the words ambuscade and prizefighting contain ABCDE and EFGHI respectively, in order.
Just my 0.02, thought perhaps some of this will increase the list size...
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9. No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple.
Oh really?
moth - cloth
orange - carriage - cartridge - ridge - fringe
silver - quiver - slither - litter
purple - single - gingle
Oh really?
moth - cloth
orange - carriage - cartridge - ridge - fringe
silver - quiver - slither - litter
purple - single - gingle
Erik Mesoy
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Yep!
You misspelled Month as Moth. Count that out.
Orange has the "andsh" or "andj" sound at the end. (Prolly some phonetic way of writing it with funny letters exists.) Carriage has "ædsh" or "ædj". Ridge has "idsh" or "idj". Fringe has "indsh" or "indj".
Quiver would need an L to count - Slither isn't even close, get a V - litter is even worse, get a V.
Purple has a very noticable P before the LE.
But there is a remedy for the first...
In all the English tongue, they say
There is no rhyme for month.
I've tried and failed a hundred times
then made it the hundred and onth!
Don't remember where the silly poem is from...
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Aphex, none of those rhymed.
stratego
Trying to be good.
So it enjoys being slow so much that when the military was using them as target practice they still wouldn't move faster?
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Originally posted by stratego
So it enjoys being slow so much that when the military was using them as target practice they still wouldn't move faster?
I never claimed them to be smart
. Interesting how many of these has been proved wrong though.
False. Quote from dictionary.com...
Les·bi·an
n.
A native or inhabitant of Lesbos.
The ancient Greek dialect of Lesbos
Sheesh. I'd hate to live there.
Joe: Hi Bill!
Bill: Hi! I found your long-lost father in Greece. Turns out he's a Lesbian!
Al Zan
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lol that was a good one!Originally posted by puglover
False. Quote from dictionary.com...
Les·bi·an
n.
A native or inhabitant of Lesbos.
The ancient Greek dialect of Lesbos
Sheesh. I'd hate to live there.
Joe: Hi Bill!
Bill: Hi! I found your long-lost father in Greece. Turns out he's a Lesbian!
As for the word "purple", I think Roger Miller solved the dilemma adequately in his song "Dang Me". The last verse:
"They say roses are red and violets are purple
Sugar is sweet and so is maple surple
Well I'm the seventh out of seven sons
My pappy was a pistol
I'm a son of a gun."
"They say roses are red and violets are purple
Sugar is sweet and so is maple surple
Well I'm the seventh out of seven sons
My pappy was a pistol
I'm a son of a gun."
MattII
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Not adequately enough darius, since surple doesn't appear in any dictionary that I've come across.
Kiwi - Informal word for an inhabitant of NZ
Kiwi - A rare flightless bird (from NZ)
English - An inhaditant of England
English - An international business language
Kiwi - Informal word for an inhabitant of NZ
Kiwi - A rare flightless bird (from NZ)
English - An inhaditant of England
English - An international business language
Vraslosken
Warlord
Kiwi is also a fruit
Oh, it's not, and I wasn't suggesting it was Matt.
Roger Miller was just playing around with the words and instead of saying "syrup" he pronounced it "surple" to rhyme with "purple".
Thus, in his own way, Roger was acknowledging that there is no English word to rhyme with "purple", otherwise he would have used it.
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