Best Writing Forum
The Bar & Grill => Word Play => Topic started by: Spell Chick on December 20, 2017, 11:46:10 AM
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All you have to do is change a letter in the word to make a new word.
You can also add a letter or omit a letter. As long as we stick to changing just one letter at a time per word and the result is a real word.
start
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stare
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share
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hare
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harp
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carp
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camp
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scamp
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stamp
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stump
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prawn
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prawn
Wah?
slump
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prawn
Stumped?
slum
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;D ;D
Whoopsie, wrong game
glum
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;D ;D
Whoopsie, wrong game
glum
;D ;D
plum
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plus
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plug
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lug
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lag
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Flag
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flan
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Clan
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clang
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Cling
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sling
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sting
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sing
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sin
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win
I'm even winning here!!!!!!!!!!!!
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won
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;D ;D
ton
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tone
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stone
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stoned
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stowed
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towed
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towel
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bowel
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rowel (Spinning part on a cowboy's spurs
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vowel
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vowed
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owed
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wed
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weld
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meld
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Mold
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mole
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role
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roll
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doll
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toll
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troll
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trill
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thrill
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shrill
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shill (The friendly stranger that lures a sucker to the cardsharp's table.)
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spill
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Spell
:o :o :o :o
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smell
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smelt
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spelt
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pelt
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pet
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Pat
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pate
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late
-
ate
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ante
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ant
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pant
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part
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pert
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port
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post
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most
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lost
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cost
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coast
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toast
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roast
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roost
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boost
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boot
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soot
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foot
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Fool
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tool
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toil
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foil
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foul
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soul
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sol
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sot
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Sit
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site
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rite
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trite
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tripe
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gripe
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grope
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grape
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rape
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rage
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cage
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age
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ale
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pale
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pile
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pike
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puke
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puked
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poked
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pocked
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poker
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toker
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token
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taken
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taker
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talker
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stalker
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staller
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stalled
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stalked
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stacked
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tacked
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ticked
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picked
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pickled
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tickled
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tickler
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stickler
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stickier
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stockier
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stocker
(the pimply kid who puts the cans of green beans on the grocery store shelves)
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In England said pimply kid would be a
stacker
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tacker
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tackier
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wackier
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wacker
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whacker
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whicker
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wicker
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wicked
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winked
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inked
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inned
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inner
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sinner
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spinner
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spinier
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spanier (Who knew that was a word. :o)
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spaniel
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spancel
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panel
(I know it is two letters, but this is looping)
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panels
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panes
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planes
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Plane
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plate
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late
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latte
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latter
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platter
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plaster
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blaster
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blasted
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lasted
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lusted
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lustred
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lustre
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lustra
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it's been days so two letters to
lust
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last
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blast
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blat
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bleat
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beat
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bear
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beard
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bard
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board
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hoard
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hoary
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I wanted to go with horny, but alas!
goary
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goar
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goad
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toad
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told
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old
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bold
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bond
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bone
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lone
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clone
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close
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closet
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closest
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closes
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loses
-
lose
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pose
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pole
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poke
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puke
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duke
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dude
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rude
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crude
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crud
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crue
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Rue
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ruse
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Rude
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rule
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mule
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Yule
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Yules
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mules
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miles
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smiles
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similes
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simile
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smile
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smite
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Mite
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mitt
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mutt
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butt
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bust
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best
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beast
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breast
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abreast
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abreact
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To stop a thread death and because I'm impatient and can't come up with anything else I will make
a
breach.
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reach
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beach
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teach
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Tech
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teach
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each
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etch
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fetch
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ketch
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sketch
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spetch
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speech
(Thanks for the new word, Cathy. Any day when you learn a new word isn't wasted.)
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speach
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peach
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teach
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each
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leach
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Bleach
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beach
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breach
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breath
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breathe
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wreathe
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wreath
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wrath
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wraith
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been a couple days here so I'm dropping two letters
with
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pith
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pit
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pet
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pat
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fat
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fate
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fame
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fume
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fuse
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muse
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must
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mist
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mint
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mine
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miner
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miler
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tiler
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tiller
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killer
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killed
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willed
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wilted
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wiled
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wild
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weld
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wield
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field
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yield
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wield
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weld
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meld
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melt
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Smelt
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smell
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small
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stall
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stale
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steal
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steam
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team
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tram
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cram
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cream
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scream
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stream
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steam
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... which is what we started the page with!
stem
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Shem (One of Noah's sons.)
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hem
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her
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here
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hare
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hard
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shard
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share
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sharp
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harp
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hark
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mark
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mar
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ma
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mar
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ma
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man
deja vu
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mat
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tat
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fat
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cat
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scat
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scar
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car
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cart
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art
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fart
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Dart
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darn
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yarn
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yard
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card
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Car
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care
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dare
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darn
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earn
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yearn
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year
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tear
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rear
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wear
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near
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neat
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neap
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reap
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heap
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heal
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heel
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feel
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Peel
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peal
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pal
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pall
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mall
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small
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smell
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swell
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swill
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skill
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still
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sill
(Like the one I trip over at my sister's house because I've become used to the low level sill in my own bungalow. How I ever survived leaping over leg-chopping blows from swords and other weapons in the showman's arena is a mystery.)
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sell
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seal
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Teal
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team
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steam
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steak
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teak
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beak
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peak
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perk
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pork
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fork
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Dork
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dark
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ark
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art
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are
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bare
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barn
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warn
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war
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bar
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bark
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park
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perk
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peak
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speak
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speck
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peck
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pack
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lack
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hack
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hick
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thick
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tick
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tock
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stock
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stuck
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tuck
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tack
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Stack
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stick
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Sick
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sic
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think
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think
how did you get from sic to think?
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I think Mark posted a note to himself that he needs to think about it.
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Sit
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pit
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pita
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pica
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how did you get from sic to think?
Easy. Just ignore every post on page 28 up to that point and start instead from the last entry on page 27. A manoeuvre known as the hoffman-gambit.
pick
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Dick
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hick
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Mick
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wick
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pick
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pink
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ink
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sink
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slink
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stink
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stank
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stark
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star
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tar
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tear
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tea
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ten
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tent
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Rent
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rend
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bend
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bed
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bead
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bear
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ear
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era
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err
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Herr
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herd
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hard
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ward
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word
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ford
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fork
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for
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fore
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bore
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bone
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hone
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Home
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homie
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Pomie
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pogie
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bogie
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Bowie
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zowie
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Zoie
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Mole
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Hole
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hale
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hake
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shake
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shaker
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shakes
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sakes
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sake
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snake
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snare
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Stare
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spare
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pare
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pear
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spear
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spar
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sear
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seal
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meal
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peal
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Real
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ream
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beam
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bream
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cream
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dream
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dread (judge for yourself if it needs the a)
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dryad
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Dryas
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dry as
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drays
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rays
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ray
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may
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my
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me
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men
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met
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meat
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neat
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feat
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Feast
(Yay 50 posts )
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Beast (from the east)
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breast
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Brest (France)
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rest
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wrest
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West
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wet
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welt
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pelt
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pest
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best
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nest
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lest
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lost
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post
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pot
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poet
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pet
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jet
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jot
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dote
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d'hote
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Thode
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thole
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(Been rowing, Joe?)
those
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hose
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whose
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Chose
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choose
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I think you've stumped us all there, Gyppo! So can I take a small liberty and go with
moose
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noose
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nose
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rose
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ruse
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rust
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bust
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burst
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burnt
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burns
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turns
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turn
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tern
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ten
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tent
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stent
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stint
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sting
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swing
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swig
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swag
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wag
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hag
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bag
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brag
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bran
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brain
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grain
-
rain
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raid
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maid
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mad
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cad
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card
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cord
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card
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cart
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caret
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carat
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karat
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kart
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mart
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mat
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cat
Probably the one which sat on the mat.
I wonder if people's entire education would be warped, or at least re-directed, if infant school learning had indoctrinated them with 'the cat located itself in a semi-upright and undoubtedly alert position on the synthetically piled less than wall-to-wall floor covering'.
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cast
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fast
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fart
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farm
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harm
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hare
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harem
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hares
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share
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Shire (As in Hamp or Horse, your choice.)
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hire
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wire
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Wine
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Whine
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while
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wile
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wife
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life
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lift
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lilt
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Tilt
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tile
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time
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timer
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mimer
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Miner
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Winer
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Wine
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fine
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Fin
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Sin
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Sine
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dine
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Ding
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Dang
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Dong
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pong
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Tong
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thong
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thing
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thin
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tin
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fin
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find
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fund
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Fun
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Bun
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pun
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Hun
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hum
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Bum
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bump
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damp
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tong
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song
Did we suddenly go to change two letters?
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;D ;D
That's a whole word
Just one letter pup lol
son
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sin
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sing
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swing
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sting
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sling
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slang
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slant
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plant
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pant
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paint
-
taint
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saint
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ain't
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ant
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rant
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raft
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daft
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deft
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left
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weft
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west
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vest
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pest
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past
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mast
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mist
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miso
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miss
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hiss
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piss
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pass
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Lass
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last
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past
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pasty
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pastry
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pantry
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panfry
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panary
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canary
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tanary
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lanary
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enough time has gone by to kick start this
land
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lend
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blend
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bend
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bed
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bet
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beat
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beast
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Breast
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Brest (A town in Brittany.) Source of much British schoolboy humour. 'Typical French, calling a place tit. Especially when they can't even spell it properly.'
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rest
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nest
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net
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pet
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pert
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part
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Art
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fart
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far
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farm
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arm
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warm
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war
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bar
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bard
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barn
-
yarn
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yard
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hard
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hare
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harp
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sharp
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shard
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hard
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hoard
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board
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beard
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bard
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bar
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far
-
fair
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flair
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lair
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air
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pair
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pain
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gain
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fain
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fail
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fall
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falls
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calls
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call
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wall
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wail
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sail
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bail
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boil
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oil
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foil
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foal
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goal
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gaol
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gall
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gale
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Ale
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Alec
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ales
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sales
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sale
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tale
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stale
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stole
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style
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stile
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smile :)
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mile
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mill
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will
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Wile
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vile
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vice
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rice
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trice
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tripe
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trip
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strip
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strap
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satrap
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satram
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A slight cheat in order to reboot? Changing a letter and moving the rest around.
traumas
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trauma
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tram
just because
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cram
-
ram
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rum
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rump
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Trump
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thump
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thumb
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rhumb
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rumb
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dumb
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dump
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damp
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Dame
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Lame
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lama
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Lamb
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limb
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limbo
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limbs
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lambs
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labs
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Laos
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lass
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glass
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class
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clasp
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clamp
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camp
-
lamp
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limp
-
blimp
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blip
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Lip
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flip
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flop
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flow
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low
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Slow
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slew
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stew
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strew
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straw
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strap
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trap
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trip
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thrip
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Thrips
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trips
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Strips
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strops (Like Sweeney Todd stropping his razor.)
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Stops
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steps
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step
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skep
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skip
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skid
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skim
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Slim
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Shim
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shin
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shun
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hun
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hunt
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shunt
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stunt
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stun
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spun
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spud
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sud
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bud
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Bid
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bird
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bard
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hard
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hark
-
lark
-
lurk
-
lure
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lore
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lyre
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tyre
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tire
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tired
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mired
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fired
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filed
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fled
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bled
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bed
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bad
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cad
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cod
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sod
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sad
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mad
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mar
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mare
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more
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Morse
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horse (OK, so nobody's surprised...)
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hose
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dose
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Dosed
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dowsed
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drowsed
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browsed
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browse
-
brows
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blows
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glows
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grows
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growl
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prowl
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prow
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plow
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plod
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prod
-
pro
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pry
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wry
-
way
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sway
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swan
-
wan
-
win
-
twin
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thin
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thine
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whine
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chine
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chime
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clime
(Archaic, but...)
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climb
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limb
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lime
(and now "put the lime in the coconut" is dancing through my brain)
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like
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lake
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fake
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fate
-
gate
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game
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gam
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ham
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hum
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hub
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cub
-
cube
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cute
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cut
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scut (rabbit's tail)
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scute - an armadillo's protective plate
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shute
-
chute
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Cute
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cure
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pure
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pore
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port
-
pot
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opt
-
top
-
stop
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stope
-
tope
-
tore
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pore
-
pare
-
pear
-
sear
-
spear
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spare
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scare
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scale
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scald
-
scold
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cold (A distant memory these last few weeks.)
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colt (A distant memory these last seventeen years, says Leo!)
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bolt
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bolt
(Not that distant a memory, says Leo!)
bold
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fold
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hold
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holed
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holes
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holts
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halts
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hats
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shat (Rural English, past tense.)
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that
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twat
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tat
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rat
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art
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mart
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fart
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fort
-
fore
-
fare
-
mare
-
mane
-
lane
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lone
-
tone
-
gone
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bone
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done
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dome
-
home
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hope
-
hype
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type
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tyre
-
pyre
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pyrex
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pyres
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pores
-
pares
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tares (biblical weeds)
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takes
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fakes
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fades
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Hades
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hides
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rides
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tides
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tidies
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tidier
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tidied
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In the interest of jump starting the game, I'm changing two letters.
died
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did
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fid (A wooden marlin spike, used in ropework.).
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fix
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six
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sic
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sick
-
slick
-
slice
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Splice
-
spice
-
space
-
pace
-
pack
-
tack
-
stack
-
stalk
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Stall
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stale
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state
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estate
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gestate
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testate
adj
(Law) having left a legally valid will at death
(I figured it had to exist as the opposite of intestate, but I looked it up to be sure.)
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restate
-
restage
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restaged
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restages
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I'm stumped, Fly. If I can change two letters, I'll propose
presages
But if anyone can do better, please do.
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presage
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presale
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prevale
(Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of prevaler.)
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(And that you can hear is the sound of a barrel being scraped! Not surprised - I'm pretty desperate too.)
prevalue
If it isn't a word, it should be - to make a prior estimate of worth - cf revalue, to make a subsequent estimate of worth. Or if that isn't acceptable, we need another fudge.
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My I suggest we stop scraping the barrel. Splinters under the fingernails play merry hell with your typing ;-) Feel free ignore this suggestion if you have your own secret stash of Scrabble type words which are never used by normal people - or even writers - but otherwise let's move on, like a beaver chomping through the wrong log and collapsing the whole dam.
But, to ensure some semblance of continuity and coherence to satisfy our scribbler's souls, let's take a word from Jo's post and run with it.
fudge
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judge
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Jude (The obscure)
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rude
(ps: thanks for rescuing us, Gyppo)
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ruse
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fuse
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fuss
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muss
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mass
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pass
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past
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pats
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parts
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pares
-
spares
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sparks
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spark
-
park
-
hark
-
harp
-
carp
-
camp
-
amp
-
damp
-
damn
-
dam
-
ham
-
him
-
shim
-
shit (You were all tempted, but I've saved you from writing it.)
-
sit
-
pit
-
pith
-
path
-
patch
-
batch
-
catch
-
hatch
-
hath
-
hat
-
hot
-
hod
(For anyone unfamiliar with a hod...)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=np8iLIt7G0A
-
pod
-
sod
-
sad
-
mad
-
maid
-
paid
-
said
-
aid
-
aim
-
air
-
hair
-
pair
-
fair
-
fail
-
hail
-
heil
-
shell
-
swell
-
(Looks as if Laura read heil as hell on the previous page, but let's just go with the flow and change swell to....
spell
-
spelt
-
pelt
-
belt
-
bolt
(And having shot mine I'm now off to bed.)
-
colt
-
cold
-
col
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Col
-
cool
-
fool
-
foal
-
coal
-
goal
-
gaol
-
gal
-
gall
-
call
-
calf
-
half
-
hale
-
whale
-
edible
-
edible
Uh..dincha change a whole bunch of letters there?
-
I think she thought she was in a different thread.
shale
-
shall
-
shalt (Archaic, but I like it.)
-
halt
-
alt
-
malt
-
salt
-
slat
-
sat
-
shat
-
swat
-
spat
I considered swapping that 'S' for a 'T' but it didn't seem comely. :o ;D
-
spate
(A lot of Cornwall's rivers are spate rivers. Either a shallow meandering trickle or a surging torrent according to the season. Which is why they often have deep cut banks, and shingle islands which are swept away in the flood surge and slowly reform again. In a prolonged drought they often get covered in lush vegetation whilst the fields either side are turning brown, but this is never enough to hold them together when the floods come.)
-
skate
-
slate
-
late
-
pate
-
pane
-
cane
-
care
-
carp
-
carpe
-
carne
(As in chilli con carne)
-
cane
-
cape
-
caper
-
cager
-
pager
-
page
-
wage
-
mage
-
sage
-
sag
-
stag
-
shag
-
hag
-
hat
-
shat
-
shot
-
shoot
-
scoot
-
soot
-
boot
-
booth
-
tooth
-
toot
-
tot
-
Tote
-
rote
-
route
-
rout
-
tout
-
tut
(Usually found in pairs but sometimes a single one is enough to indicate displeasure/annoyance.)
-
tat
-
tan
-
tin
-
tine
-
tone
-
stone
-
stoner
-
stoned
-
toned
-
tuned
-
turned
-
burned
-
burner
-
turner
-
tuner
-
toner
-
tone
-
tune
-
rune (woooooooo)
-
(wooooo) a rune tune
Rule
-
rude
-
rode
-
node
-
mode
-
mole
-
hole
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAzQ7Pn0Bbc
-
Ha, ha, ha! Love it Gyppo! If I ever teach another kid's class, I'm adding that one to the kid's musical repertoire.
pole
-
poll
-
pull
-
mull
-
bull
-
bill
-
pill
-
spill
-
skill
-
kill
-
kiln
-
kilo
-
kilt
-
lilt
-
silt
-
silk
-
sulk
-
sunk
-
hunk
-
chunk
-
clunk
-
clank
-
blank
-
lank
-
plank
-
plant
-
plane
-
pane
-
panel
-
panes
-
lanes
-
planes
-
plans
-
plants
-
pants
-
paints
-
saints
-
saint
-
taint
-
tint
-
pint
-
point
-
joint
(I was just thinking that a rolled bacon joint would give a veggie pothead nightmares.)
-
;D ;D
join
-
joint
(I was just thinking that a rolled bacon joint would give a veggie pothead nightmares.)
Veggie pothead conjured up an image of vegan stoner with a pot on his head. No vegetarian pothead would smoke bacon. :P
John
-
Joan
(Pot on the head reminds me of when ladies wore flowerpot hats, so called because of the shape. Maria, our village eccentric who'd survived the Nazi concentration camps and had every reason to be a bit strange, made her own from a proper terracotta pot covered with fabric.)
-
moan
-
roan
-
groan
-
grain <- Is that cheating?
-
Yep
-
groan
grain <- Is that cheating?
Yep
Okay then,
Gran
-
grand
-
grind
-
rind
-
rand
-
and
-
end
-
bend
-
Gumby
-
Just what game do you think you're playing, Young Lady?
Bend to gumby by only changing one letter? In fact you've only retained one letter.
Please say thesaurus fifteen times quickly as a forfeit and then try again ;-)
-
;D ;D ;D
-
I see we are still waiting for Deb to get back
maybe she went to
bed
-
bead
-
lead
-
led
-
red
-
reed
-
Just what game do you think you're playing, Young Lady?
Bend to gumby by only changing one letter? In fact you've only retained one letter.
Please say thesaurus fifteen times quickly as a forfeit and then try again ;-)
;D ;D ;D ;D Clearly, my wires were crossed. :o Sorry folks. ;D ;D ;D
And here I thought I had the perfect word association. ??? ;)
-
reed
deed
-
dead
-
deal
-
meal
-
mead
-
meat
-
meet
-
meek
-
peek
-
seek
-
leek
-
sleek
-
sleet
-
Avoiding the obvious one ... skeet
-
sweet
-
Tweet
-
tweed
-
Twee
-
tee
-
tea
-
pea
-
peat
-
pelt
-
belt
-
beet
-
feet
-
fleet
-
flee
-
flea
-
lea
-
leaf
-
deaf
-
Dear
-
Dean
-
Mean
-
man
-
Mad
-
Ma
-
ha
-
ta
-
Da
-
a
-
I
-
Pi
-
pie
-
tie
-
tit
-
tin
-
pin
-
pint
-
pine
-
wine
-
swine
-
stine
-
stink
-
sink
-
sin
-
spin
-
skin
-
sin
-
Sink
-
pink
-
Punk
-
sunk
-
hunk
-
bunk
-
bonk
-
honk
-
Hunk
-
hunt
-
Punt
-
putt
-
Puts
-
putz
-
Put
-
cut
-
cult
-
colt
-
dolt
-
doll
-
droll
-
troll
-
roll
-
toll
-
tool (no offence intended)
-
fool
-
foo
-
loo
-
too
-
toot
-
coot
-
scoot
-
scoop
-
coop
-
poop
-
plop
-
Lop
-
clop
-
clap
-
clamp
-
clam
-
glam
-
glum
-
gum
-
gut
-
git
-
grit
-
grim
-
grin
-
gran
-
grand
-
rand (Either the currency or Mary the athlete.)
-
brand
-
band
-
Bland
-
Blind
-
bling
-
sling
-
sing
-
song
-
long
-
log
-
blog
-
flog
-
floe
-
aloe
-
alone
-
lone
-
lore
-
gore
-
fore
-
Fort
-
foot
-
toot
-
Root
-
roost
-
roast
-
toast
-
coast
-
coat
-
cat
-
cast
-
caste
-
Baste
-
paste
-
taste
-
Tase (As in zapping someone with a Taser.)
-
taser ;D
-
Laser
-
loser
-
poser
-
pores (see what I did there?)
-
anagrams!!!
ores
-
Which this is not :o
ore
-
roe
pores (see what I did there?)
Yes, I was watching. Difficult to play this game without ;-)
-
row
-
Crow
-
craw
-
crawl
-
scrawl
-
scrawn
-
Scran
Northern English slang for food.
-
Scram
-
Scam
Southern English for the price of food in London.
-
Spam
-
span
-
Pan
-
pant
-
rant
-
cant
-
scant
-
scan
-
span
-
spar
-
spark
-
park
-
Ark
-
mark
-
Park
-
dark
-
dirk
-
dork
-
fork
-
form
-
foam
-
loam
-
load
-
toad
-
tad
-
Mad
-
mud
-
mum
-
Bum
-
bun
-
burn
-
turn
-
tern
-
term
-
perm
-
germ
-
Gem
-
get
-
vet
-
pet
-
pen
-
pent
-
spent
-
spend
-
open‘d
-
opened
-
opined
-
pined
-
pine
-
pike
-
spike
-
spine
-
spin
-
sin
-
In
-
I
-
it
-
kit
-
skit
-
ski
-
skin
-
kin
-
Kip
-
lip
-
clip
-
chip
-
chop
-
shop
-
ship
-
skip
-
skid
-
Ski
-
ki
-
I
-
it
-
fit
-
fig
-
dig
-
dug
-
fug
-
rug
-
mug
-
mu
-
(et) tu (brutus)
-
tun
-
tune
-
tuna
-
Tina
-
tine
-
pine
-
pint
-
hint
-
Hunt
-
hung
-
hang
-
bang
-
rang
-
ring
-
rink
-
brink
-
brick
-
crick
-
crack
-
track
-
trick
-
trice
-
rice
-
race
-
rake
-
make
-
mare
-
mar
-
mart
-
tart
-
tort
-
sort
-
sore
-
spore
-
pore
-
core
-
cope
-
lope
-
slope
-
slop
-
plop
-
pop
-
pope
-
rope
-
nope
-
Snope
-
snipe
-
sniper
-
snipper
-
nipper
-
ripper
-
zipper
-
hipper
-
kipper
-
skipper
-
skipped
-
kipped
-
pipped
-
Piped
-
wiped
-
wined
(As in "I wined and dined a gorgeous girl before she went into the Gents and I realised she was an absent-minded transvestite.)
-
whined (As in the Wifie theme tune.)
-
whiner
-
shiner
-
shine
-
sine
-
sin
-
win
I should go do that.
-
In
(I should go to be and let you do that)
-
on
-
ton
-
torn
-
worn
-
warn
-
warm
-
warp
-
carp
-
care
-
scare
-
share
-
spare
-
sparse
-
parse
-
arse
-
are
-
care
-
card
-
cord
-
core
-
wore
-
worse
-
worst
-
wort
-
worth
-
north
-
(go) forth
-
fort
-
fart (One of those glorious onomatopoeic words, which sounds rather like the sound they are describing.)
-
;D
fast
-
last
-
blast
-
Blest
-
lest
-
less
-
mess
-
messy
-
missy
-
miss
-
kiss :-*
-
piss
-
pass
-
past
-
part
-
art
-
fart
-
far
-
fair
-
air
-
lair
-
laid
-
plaid
-
plait
-
plain
-
plan
-
plank
-
blank
-
bland
-
blend
-
bleed
-
lend
-
land
-
band
-
brand
-
rand (currency)
-
rind
-
Hind
(Reminds me of Prince Charles singing one of The Beach Boys' Songs,
"One gets a rind, rind, rind,
one gets a rind.
Oh yes."
-
kind
-
kine
(Old English for cattle, sometimes still heard in rural areas.)
-
wine
-
wire
-
wired
-
sired
-
fired
-
tired
-
tires
-
tyres
-
tyre
-
pyre
-
pore
-
porn
-
port
-
wort
-
Wart
-
lart
It's an IT term from the good old days and means: baseball bat. It stands for loser (AKA user) attitude readjustment tool. These days we are not supposed to beat the stupidity out of users. Shame really. Thank god sarcasm has not yet been made illegal else there be no fun left in being an IT genius.
-
art
Told kid in computer class it was a PEBKAC error and he wanted to know if it could be fixed. I shrugged. He wanted to know what it was. Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair. He looked at the situation and said, "That's me." I nodded.
-
arc
-
ark
(I wonder if the original biblical scribe agonised for hours over whether or not Noah had a properly developed 'Character's ark'.)
-
bark
-
hark
-
shark
-
sharp
-
share
-
snare (found one in Gyppo's pocket).
-
spare (in the other pocket)
-
Pare
-
part
-
mart
-
smart
-
smarm
-
Marm
-
arm
-
farm
-
farl
(Quadrant shaped servings of Irish soda bread, or potato farls.)
-
furl
-
hurl
-
curl
-
cull
-
hull
-
hulk
-
sulk
-
silk
-
silt
-
tilt
-
wilt
-
kilt
-
kit
-
pit
-
spit
-
split
-
slit
-
slut
-
shut
-
shat (past tense, still commonly used in some rural communities.)
-
spat
-
spate
-
spite
-
sprite
-
spritz
-
Ritz
-
rite
-
mite
-
smite
-
skite
-
kite
-
kit
-
git
-
fit
-
flit
-
flat
-
fat
-
fate
-
mate
-
made
-
Mad
-
maid
-
raid
-
rapid
-
vapid
-
valid
-
valis
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VALIS)
-
Vales
-
valves
-
salves
-
salvos
-
Salvo
-
solve :P
-
solved
-
soled
-
soiled
-
spoiled
-
spoiler
-
toiler
Yeah, that was two letters, but you'll give it to me for Christmas?
-
toilet
-
toiled
-
tolled
-
polled
-
pilled
-
piled
-
pile
-
pike
-
hike
-
hive
-
jive
-
give
-
gave
-
game
-
fame
-
fume
-
fuge
-
huge
-
hug
-
bug
-
bung
-
bunk
-
dunk
-
drunk
-
trunk
-
thunk
(The sound Alma's remote control car made when she accidentally drove it off the edge of the table. She got impatient waiting for her mechanic (Grandad was on tea break) to do it's MOT test, and flicked the switch to rev the engine, with some story about it making a funny noise.)
Fortunately it fell into a box of 'stuff' which broke the fall.
-
think
-
thine
-
tine
-
tin
-
in
-
I
-
is
-
his
-
this
-
thus
-
thud
-
thuds
-
thugs
-
hugs
-
hug
-
hag
-
sag
-
sage
-
Rage
-
wage
-
wags
-
wigs
-
Twigs
-
twig
-
swig
-
swag
-
shag
(Which is variously a seabird, a dance in America, or a mutual writhing activity in many languages. A 'shag-pile' on a carpet is open to local interpretation.)
-
Shags.
(Cormorant. I can never tell those two apart)
-
hags
-
hams
-
has
-
Hash
-
dash
-
wash
-
wish
-
wisp
-
wasp
-
wasps
-
asps
-
gasps
-
gasp
-
rasp
-
rap
-
crap
-
cap
-
caw
-
raw
-
craw
-
cram
-
dram
-
dream
-
ream
-
bream
-
beam
-
ream
-
team
-
tame
-
time
-
Lime
-
line
-
tine
-
thine
-
chine
(Hull shape on some boats)
-
chin
-
china
-
hina
-
hind
-
find
-
fend
-
rend
-
rind
-
kind
-
kink
-
rink
-
ring
-
bring
-
bling
-
blind
-
blink
-
link
-
lunk
-
luck
-
that is so tempting
duck
-
dock
-
cock
-
clock
-
cloak
-
coak
-
oak
-
oar
-
oaf
-
loaf
-
loam
-
foam
-
roam
-
Rom (Either the sort in your computer, or the other sort that sometimes camps in places he/she probably shouldn't according to modern laws.
-
Rome
-
dome
-
done
-
cone
-
clone
-
lone
-
line
-
line
-
lime
-
dime
-
line
line
Hey, it's like we were reading each other's minds. Either that or that pesky, invisible, letter, "s" got in the way or snuck in, as it were. ;) ;D :-*
Okay, back to, DIME.
-
dire
-
mire
-
mile
-
smile
-
stile
-
still
-
stall
-
small
-
mall
-
ball
-
bell
-
bill
-
bile
-
pile
-
Pill
-
spill
-
skill
-
kill
-
kiln
-
kilt
-
silt
-
salt
-
malt
-
molt
-
colt
-
bolt
-
boll
-
boil
-
bail
-
rail
-
fail
-
jail
-
nail
-
nil
-
nit
-
nut
-
nuts
-
cuts
-
cut
-
cunt
-
count
-
county
-
country
-
counter
-
mounter
-
munter
-
hunter
-
punter
-
punker
-
junker
-
junked
-
bunked
-
banked
-
blanked
-
blanket
-
blanker
-
banker
-
baker
-
baler
=====
Reminds me...
My ex married a farmworker. She was very good at having his dinner ready on time when he came in. Then one night he was half an hour late, and dinner was 'utterly spoiled' where she'd shoved it back in the Rayburn to keep it warm She gave him grief.
"Well, there was a reason, Love."
"It had better be a damned good reason."
"It was. Roland's just had a new roll-baler delivered so we all had to go and play with it for a while."
-
;D ;D
Fair enough Gyp
Bale
-
vale
-
vile
-
bile
-
bill
-
will
-
wilt
-
tilt
-
tile
-
toile
-
Voile
-
vole
-
pole
-
pale
-
pall
-
all
-
alt
-
malt
-
mall
-
mail
-
hail
-
Bail
-
boil
-
foil
-
fail
-
ail
-
all
-
awl
-
bawl
-
cawl
-
Cowl
-
cow
-
"Cor!"
-
or
-
ore
-
core
-
chore
-
chose
-
chosen
-
cosen
-
coven
(You know all about those, FF)
-
cover
( Oh I do High Priestess) >:D
-
cower
(you do scare me sometimes, you know)
-
tower
(my uncanny intuition isn't it)
-
toner
-
stoner
-
stone
-
tone
-
tole
-
toll
-
poll
-
pole
-
pile
-
pike
-
spike
-
spire
-
sire
-
dire
-
dare
-
fare
-
fart
-
fact
-
tact
-
tract
-
track
-
Truck
-
struck
-
stuck
-
stick
-
stock
-
tock
-
took
-
Tool
-
toil
-
foil
(Not as much fun as an epee or sabre.)
-
boil
-
bowl
-
owl
-
own
-
owe
=====
"I owe, I owe, so off to work I go."
===
-
;D ;D
one
-
ode
-
code
-
cod
-
mod
-
mad
-
Maid
-
said
-
Paid
-
pad
-
pan
-
pen
(For those keyboard warriors who find this an unfamiliar word a pen is an ancient writing implement, directed with subtle micro-movements of the fingers and wrist and periodically relocated on the page by using the muscles of the forearm.)
-
pent
-
gent
-
rent
-
rant
-
runt
-
punt
-
pun
-
Fun
-
bun
-
burn
-
born
-
boon
-
boot
-
loot
-
loo
-
poo
-
poop
-
pool
-
tool
-
toll
-
moll
-
Mole
-
hole
-
shole
-
sole
-
sold
-
hold
-
held
-
Weld
-
welt
-
belt
-
bent
-
beet
-
beat
-
feat
-
feet
-
fleet
-
sleet
-
sheet
-
sheer
-
shear
-
sear
-
ear
-
fear
-
feat
-
heat
-
hat
-
hit
-
hilt
-
silt
-
salt
-
alt
-
malt
-
mat
-
math
-
meth
-
myth
-
moth
-
mouth
-
couth
(The rarely used positive of which uncouth is the more commonly used opposite.)
-
couch
-
cough
-
lough
-
laugh
-
faugh
-
gaugh
-
gauge
-
gouge
-
rouge
-
rouged
-
roughed
-
rougher
-
tougher
-
toughen
-
roughen
-
roughed
-
soughed
-
soughe
-
souche
-
Douche
-
Douched
-
touched
-
torched
-
Torches
-
torche
-
torch
-
torc (A decorative neck ring.)
-
torn
-
ton
-
con
-
cone
-
crone
-
crane
-
cane
-
cape
-
ape
-
axe
-
axle
-
ale
-
All
-
ally
-
tally
-
telly
-
Belly
-
belay
-
delay
-
relay
-
relax
-
rewax
-
refax
-
and emerging like a phoenix from this hell
real
-
Three cheers for the Phoenix, born from fire and self destruction.
deal
-
dear
-
tear
-
teal
-
tale
-
talc
-
talk
-
walk
-
wank
-
wink
-
wind
-
wine
-
mine
-
mime
-
time
-
tame
-
tome
-
dome
-
done
-
gone
-
one
-
once
-
ponce
-
pounce
-
ounce
-
dunce
-
dance
-
dancer
-
Lancer
-
Lander
-
wander
-
wanker wonder
-
(The question was never whether, only who.)
ponder
-
Now you know you can count on me. ;D
yonder
-
fonder
-
founder
-
flounder
-
flounders
-
founders
-
funders
-
finders
-
fingers
-
lingers
-
linger
-
longer
-
longed
-
lunged
-
lunge
-
lounge
-
lounges
-
loungers
-
lounger
-
longer
-
lunger
-
plunger
-
plunge
-
plunged
-
lunged
-
longed
-
ponged
-
pinged
-
pinned
-
binned
-
banned
-
canned
-
caned
-
cared
-
bared
-
bard
-
bark
-
ark
-
mark
-
lark
-
lurk
-
lure
-
sure
-
pure
-
purl (as in knitting)
-
curl
-
curd
-
card
-
ward
-
warm
-
worm
-
worn
-
torn
-
born
-
barn
-
bar
-
bear
-
beard
-
heard
-
hard
-
hare
-
dare
-
darn
-
dart
-
dirt
-
diet
-
died
-
dried
-
fried
-
cried
-
tried
-
tired
-
wired
-
weird
-
weir
-
heir
-
hair
-
pair
-
par
-
pa
-
spa
-
spar
-
spear
-
pear
-
pare
-
park
-
perk
-
jerk
-
jerky
-
jerry
-
merry
-
marry
-
carry
-
curry
-
Hurry
-
furry
-
fury
-
fur
-
cur
-
curt
-
hurt
-
hart
-
hard
-
harm
-
charm
-
chart
-
chert
-
cert
-
cart
-
dart
-
dare
-
darn
-
yarn
-
barn
-
born
-
corn
-
corny
-
horny
-
horns
-
shorn
-
short
-
snort
-
snore
-
sore
-
sire
-
sired
-
Tired
-
timed
-
timid
-
tumid
-
humid
-
I think you've stymied us there, Fly. So can I change two letters and offer
humped
-
thumped
-
trumped
-
tramped
-
ramped
-
camped
-
comped
-
coped
-
copped
-
copper
-
hopper
-
shopper
-
shoppe
-
shopped
-
slopped
-
lopped
-
lapped
-
tapped
-
taped
-
tape
-
taps
-
tap
-
trap
-
strap
-
strip
-
trip
-
tripe
-
tribe
-
bribe
-
bride
-
ride
-
rode
-
ode
-
mode
-
mod
-
mold
-
mould
-
would
-
could
-
cold
-
old
-
fold
-
ford
-
fjord
-
great word, but only way to go is plural, singular, and then we are just stuck.
form
-
farm
-
far
-
bar
-
bag
-
brag
-
bray
-
bay
-
ban
-
fan
-
flan
-
flank
-
blank
-
black
-
lack
-
lock
-
clock
-
cluck
-
clunk
-
chunk
-
hunk
-
junk
-
sunk
-
skunk
-
skink
-
slink
-
stink
-
sink
-
sank
-
sang
-
song
-
gong
-
gone
-
hone
-
shone
-
shine
-
shite
-
spite
-
spine
-
opine
-
pine
-
pink
-
mink
-
mind
-
mint
-
Change a letter or change a life?
https://bestwritingforum.com/index.php/topic,1070.0.html
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mitt
-
mite
-
smite
-
smile
-
mile
-
milk
-
milt (fish sperm)
-
malt
-
halt
-
half
-
calf
-
call
-
caul
-
haul
-
hall
-
shall
-
shale
-
stale
-
tale
-
talk
-
stalk
-
stack
-
shack
-
shock
-
shook
-
Snook (A species of fish.)
-
spook
(Thanks for the definition, Gyppo. Maybe we should all do that with our more erudite words?)
-
stook
(Jo, it would do no harm and if it tempts people to look it up it then it becomes another usable word in their 'deep vocabulary', the words which rarely surface in everyday use but are stored in the memory bank.)
-
stock
-
stick
-
slick
-
slice
-
slide
-
slid
-
lid
-
led
-
lee
-
flee
-
fleet
-
sleet
-
sleek
-
leeks
-
leaks
-
peaks
-
perks
-
parks
-
sparks
-
sharks
-
shirks
-
Shirts
-
skirts
-
skirt
-
skit
-
kit
-
sit
-
spit
-
split
-
slit
-
slat
-
slate
-
slater
(Could be one who lays slates for a roof, or could be a local nickname for a woodlouse, those miniature armadillos which live underneath the bark of rotting logs and curl up into a tiny ball when threatened. Also known as chisel-pigs.)
-
later
-
Late
-
fate
-
fade
-
fake
-
flake
-
flame
-
Frame
-
framed
-
farmed
-
farmer
-
warmer
-
warder
-
warden
-
harden
-
garden
-
gander
(okay, I moved TWO letters ::) )
-
Off with her head!!
grander
-
grinder
-
grinner
-
grinned
-
grinder
-
grander
-
Gander
-
wander
-
wanker
-
hanker
-
banker
-
tanker
-
tinker
-
thinker
-
thinner
-
thinned
-
tinned
-
Pinned
-
pined
-
opined
-
opine
-
ovine - pertaining to sheep
-
bovine
-
Been a bit stuck for a while, lets reset this sucker
Low
-
blow
-
blob
-
slob
-
slab
-
slap
-
flap
-
flip
-
clip
-
chip
-
chap
-
cheap
-
cheep
-
cheek
-
creek
-
reek
-
meek
-
meet
-
mete
-
mate
-
mite
-
mitre
-
litre
-
lire
-
tire
-
tore
-
store
-
stove
-
stole
-
stolen
-
stollen
-
swollen (and if you eat enough stollen you will be)
-
I think Mark's got us beat. Can I change two letters and have
swilled
?
-
spilled
-
stilled
-
tilled
-
tiled
-
tiler
-
toiler
-
boiler
-
bailer
-
bailed
-
jailed
-
failed
-
sailed
-
soiled
-
coiled
-
oiled
-
foiled
-
filed
-
Filled
-
tilled
-
tiller
-
killer
-
kilter (balance)
-
filter
-
fitter
-
fatter
-
flatter
-
flatten
-
latten
(https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/latten)
-
batten
-
batter
-
bather
-
lather
-
slather ;)
-
slither
-
slithery
-
slithers
-
slithery
-
So we go from slithery to slithers and back to slithery again?
I guess I'll just go back to slither then. :-\
slither
-
lithe
-
Good call, Chick
Lathe
-
latte
-
latter
-
later
-
slater
-
skater
-
skated
-
sated
-
salted
-
salter
-
psalter
-
palter
-
alter
-
after
-
rafter
-
rafted
-
wafted
-
wasted
-
washed
-
mashed
-
smashed
-
smashes
-
sashes
-
gashes
-
ashes
-
washes
-
washed
-
wished
-
fished
-
Fishes
-
Dishes
-
dashes
-
lashes
-
lasses
-
passes
-
passer
-
passe
-
parse
-
purse
-
pure
-
purl (as in knitting)
-
curl
-
hurl
-
hull
-
hulk
-
bulk
-
bull
-
null
-
Nell
-
fell
-
felt
-
pelt
-
melt
-
smelt
-
Spelt
-
spell
-
swell
-
well
-
will
-
wile
(I had to check to see if a singular wile existed as a word, because I've only ever seen them collectively, as cunning wiles. Yes, it's legitimate.)
-
wife
displaying her one womanly wile hahaha
-
wire
-
dire
-
dirt
-
dart
-
Art
-
cart
-
carp
-
Car
-
tar
-
Tart
-
fart
-
farts
-
arts
-
arcs
-
arc
-
arm
-
warm
-
swarm
-
swarf - the tiny metal filings that gather under the benches in any machine shop
-
dwarf
-
warf
-
barf
-
bare
-
barge
-
large
-
larger
-
lager
-
luger (One who rides a luge.)
-
lugger
-
bugger
-
burger
-
burgee
Nautical. A triangular or swallow-tailed flag flown from the mast of a merchant ship for identification and from the mast of a yacht to indicate its owner's membership of a particular yacht club.
-
bargee
-
barged
-
barked
-
basked
-
basket
-
casket
-
casked
-
caked
-
baked
-
baker
-
maker
-
Saker
A large species of falcon. Link below if anyone's interested.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saker_falcon
-
shaker
-
shaken
-
shaven
-
haven
-
have
-
halve
-
salve
-
Save
-
have
-
hate
-
rate
-
raze
-
race
-
Dace
(A very silvery species of freshwater fish.)
-
dame
-
fame
-
frame
-
flame
-
lame
-
lamb
-
limb
-
limbo
-
limbs
-
climbs
-
climes
-
limes
-
times
-
mimes
-
miles
-
males
-
gales
-
ales
-
apes
-
capes
-
cares
-
scares
-
scars
-
sears
-
wears
-
swear
-
wear
-
war
-
wad
-
cad
-
cod
-
clod
-
clot
-
cloth
-
sloth
-
slot
-
spot
-
sot
-
snot
-
shot
-
shut
-
shunt
-
shan't
-
chant
-
cant (This is cant as in a private/secret language, such as thieves' or gypsies' cant, and not an accidentally unaccented can't.)
-
want
because the other word I thought of would make this an adult warning thread
-
went
-
wet
-
west
-
vest
-
vast
-
vase
-
case
-
caste
-
waste
-
haste
-
paste
-
piste
-
Well, if you're all defeated by piste, let's try
ski
-
skip
-
ship
-
chip
-
hip
-
hop
-
sop
-
sap
-
sag
-
sage
-
rage
-
raze
-
maze
-
mane
-
pane
-
plane
-
planet
-
plant
-
slant
-
slat
-
slate
-
spate
-
pate
-
gate
-
grate
-
great
-
greet
-
reet (If Yorkshire dialect is acceptable.)
-
Of course it isn't, Gyppo - the site operates in English! However...
feet
-
fleet
-
sleet
-
sheet
-
sheep
-
sleep
-
seep
-
steep
-
step
-
stem
-
stet
-
set
-
bet
-
get
-
got
-
hot!
-
hoot
-
soot
-
scoot
-
Scot
-
snot
-
shot
-
spot
-
sport
-
short
-
shore
-
shove
-
shovel
-
hovel
-
novel
-
Noel
-
Nobel
-
Nobee
(Nobee, is a variant form of the English Noble. Nobee, is uncommon as a baby name for boys.) Hand to heart, that's what it says in the, BabyNamesPedia.
-
this has languished long enough
start
-
this has languished long enough
start
Oops. Sorry for being the thread killer there.
I was sure it would go from Nobee to nober to Gober, to goober ... but okay.
start to ...
Tart
-
what the hell is a nober??
art
-
what the hell is a nober??
art
Take your pick.
https://www.definitions.net/definition/Nober (https://www.definitions.net/definition/Nober) :P ;D ;D ;D
fart
-
cart
-
art
-
act
-
pact
-
fact
-
fat
-
fate
-
pate
-
spate
-
spade
-
spare
-
scare
-
scared
-
stared
-
staved
-
saved
-
paved
-
paver
-
raver
-
racer
-
race
-
lace
-
laze
-
haze
-
gaze
-
game
-
tame
-
tome
-
tomb
-
bomb
-
comb
-
womb
-
wombs
-
tombs
-
tomes
-
homes
-
comes
-
cones
-
canes
-
panes
-
planes
-
planet
-
planer (Woodworking machine)
-
planner (the person who plans where to site the planer.)
-
planter
-
planted
-
panted
-
painted
-
pained
-
gained
-
gainer (A gainer is the acrobatic trick of performing a backwards somersault while still moving forward. )
-
grainer (An infusion of pigeon's dung used by tanners to neutralize the effects of lime and give flexibility to skins. Though I'm sure you knew that.)
-
;D ;D
grained
-
Rained (yesterday)
-
brained
-
trained
-
trainer
-
strainer
-
Strained
-
sprained
-
seems like we got to the point of too many letters again.
how about
sprain
-
Spain
-
pain
-
pin
-
sin
-
in
-
win
-
wan
-
want
-
wane
-
wart
-
wort
-
sort
-
sport
-
spore
-
shore
-
share
-
Hare
-
hear
-
gear
-
gar
-
garb
-
barb
-
bare
-
bore
-
born
-
boon
-
boom
-
bloom
-
blood
-
Flood
-
floor
-
flour
-
four
-
fur
-
fir
-
sir
-
sic
-
sip
-
tip
-
tin
-
Tint
-
Bint
-
bunt
-
punt
-
pint
-
paint
-
taint
-
saint
-
faint
-
fain (Archaic, meaning gladly, happily. eg, "I would fain be transported back to my childhood home.)
-
pain
-
gain
-
Grain
-
rain (or sodding rain as it is known round here)
-
ran
-
pan (to catch the rain if you have a leaky roof)
-
pin
-
sin
-
sine (sorry to go off at a tangent, but ...)
-
spine
-
swine
-
swipe
-
Wipe
-
wise
-
sine (sorry to go off at a tangent, but ...)
A tangent or an angle? ;D
Wine
-
Pine
(Mark's sine could have been a wave.)
-
Fine
Pine
(Mark's sine could have been a wave.)
;D
-
find
-
fond
-
frond (I love that word, not the meaning, just the sound of it as it rolls off your tongue)
-
FRAND “Fair, Reasonable, and Non-Discriminatory” There are no rules that say you cannot use an acronym. If there is, I just broke it. :P
-
DARN
(cheated slightly - dropped a letter AND changed them around :( )
-
Tarn
-
tar
-
tor
-
or
-
of
-
off
-
Toff
-
doff
-
duff
-
ruff
-
riff
-
tiff (a mild argument)
-
Stiff
-
staff
-
stuff
-
sluff (Alternative, albeit questionable, spelling of slough)
-
fluff
-
bluff
-
buff
-
puff
-
muff
-
cuff
-
tuff
-
stuff
-
staff
-
Taff (I Googled it)
-
Taft
-
daft
-
draft
-
raft
-
aft
-
Daft
-
dart
-
lart
-
lard
-
lord
-
lore
-
lure
-
Lurk
-
murk
-
muck
-
puck
-
pluck
-
cluck
-
luck
-
lock
-
lick
-
Click
-
flick
-
Lick
-
lice
-
lace
-
glace
-
grace
-
race
-
rack
-
back
-
jack
-
sack
-
sank
-
sunk
-
skunk
-
skank
-
stank
-
tank
-
talk
-
stalk
-
stall
-
still
-
spill
-
pill
-
Pile
-
mile
-
mill
-
MILF
-
Milo
-
Lilo
-
limp
-
lime
-
slime
-
Lilo
limp
??? ::) 8) ;D
slime
slim
-
shim
-
swim
-
swam
-
scam
-
scat (Old English, and still Cornish, for excrement. You still occasionally hear things like "He was so scared he had scat running down his leg." Or, "He's so stupid it do take he half an hour or more to know he's scat his pants."
-
scat is still used in rural England beyond Cornwall but only in relation to wild animal shit. You still hear things like: Sally, taste that scat and see if it's fox or badger.
cat
-
hat
(Poor Sally.)
-
that
(did I not mention Sally is a dog?)
-
than
(Poor dog.)
-
tan
-
tank
-
Bank
-
bunk
-
hunk as in Thor
-
Chunk
-
chink
-
clink
-
clank
-
clan
-
flan
-
flank
-
lank
-
bank
-
ban
-
an
-
and
I just realized I've passed 3000 posts. I feel like I've accomplished something, which reminds me, what happened to the Poetry Challenge?
-
sand
Congrats, Deb. And probably the same thing happened to the poetry challenge that's happened to the flash.
-
stand
-
stank
-
spank
-
spark
-
park
-
ark
-
arc
-
arch
-
March
-
larch
-
parch
-
perch
-
peach
-
peach
Really tempted to cheat and add two letters to that one...
each
-
ache
-
ace
-
face
-
fact
-
tact
-
tract
-
trace
-
trice
-
trick
-
rick
-
rich
-
rice
-
trice
-
truce
-
truck
-
track
-
trick
-
prick
-
price
-
rice
-
race
-
rate
-
crate
-
crater
-
crated
-
rated
-
rate
-
rite
-
ride
-
rive
=====
To split or tear apart. Example. Riven timbers used for fencing or making hurdles may be 'started' with an axe or bill hook, but they are riven along the natural lines of the grain. Occasionally you'll get a pole which just won't co-operate, but Ash and Hazel are normally obliging.
===
-
Also, as it's a writing forum, Riven Rock by T.C. Boyle.
five
-
fire
-
sire
-
mire
-
ire
-
tire
-
time
-
tome
-
Rome
-
crome
-
come
-
comet
-
cometh
-
comets
-
covets
-
coverts
-
Converts
-
convert
-
concert
-
Concern
-
concerns
-
concerts
-
converts
-
convents
-
plume
-
plume
Welcome. This is lovely, but doesn't really follow the rules of the game. I'm guessing you answered form a page other than the last one. However, we were caught in word hell and I think I'm just going to go with this.
plum
-
plus
-
lust
This isn't cheating, right?
-
lusty
-
busty
-
busy
-
bus
-
pus
-
convents
plume
Welcome. This is lovely, but doesn't really follow the rules of the game. I'm guessing you answered form a page other than the last one. However, we were caught in word hell and I think I'm just going to go with this.
plum
I loved this.
new word:
Put
-
hut
-
hat
Good morning, Gyppo. :)
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hate
(Morning, Deb. Having a fidgety night, so have got up for a drink at 5 AM, but may not be around for all that long. But right now sleep is not an option.)
-
Late
It's 9:11 Pm November 7th here. I'm just winding down from the day.
-
extreme
(I had a fun evening 'making stuff' with my Grandaughter, a phone chat with my younger daughter and then some quiet time with my keyboard. Went to bed expecting to be 'out like a light', but it didn't happen. As soon as I put the light out I was wide awake again.)
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extreme
(I had a fun evening 'making stuff' with my Grandaughter, a phone chat with my younger daughter and then some quiet time with my keyboard. Went to bed expecting to be 'out like a light', but it didn't happen. As soon as I put the light out I was wide awake again.)
I think you're in the wrong topic, Gyppo.
So... late --> later
-
latter
-
fatter
-
fitter
-
litter
-
hitter
-
hotter
-
shotter
(The man who plants the charges for blasting in a quarry.)
-
shatter
(The man who stood too close to the charges in the quarry when they went off.)
-
Hatter
(the shatter guy probably won't need his services)
-
chatter
-
chatted
-
charted
-
charred
-
chaired
-
haired
-
paired
-
pared
-
pored
-
poured
-
soured
-
scoured
-
scored
-
score
-
scorn
-
shorn
-
horn
-
torn
-
tern
-
stern
-
Sterno
-
stereo
-
Thereo (https://www.biblestudytools.com/lexicons/greek/nas/theoreo.html)
-
There
-
theme
-
them
-
hem
-
hum
-
hump
-
sump
-
stump
-
slump
-
lump
-
rump
-
frump
-
flump
-
flume
-
fume
-
fuse
-
fuss
-
suss
-
huss (A larger relation to the dogfish.)
-
husk
-
tusk
-
rusk
-
rust
-
bust
-
must
-
mast
-
cast
-
caste
-
chaste
-
haste
-
baste
-
paste
-
waste
-
waster
-
water
-
pater
-
pate
-
spate
-
spite
-
spine
-
pine
-
pined (for the fjords)
-
pinned
-
sinned
-
sinner
-
dinner
(My Grandaughter's a 'dinner', she makes one hell of a din on occasions.)
-
diner
-
Finer
(...Nothing could be finer,
than dinner in the diner...)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzHIn5S-RbY
Even back then people had to spoil an otherwise decent tune by prancing around like a bunch of lunatics.
-
finger
-
linger
-
Longer
-
lunger
-
hunger
-
hanger
-
banger
-
banged
-
bagged
-
blagged
-
lagged
-
legged
-
begged
-
bogged
-
bugged
-
bugger
-
bigger
-
jigger
-
jogger
-
logger
-
lugger
("Once aboard the lugger and the girl is mine.")
-
slugger
-
slogger
-
blogger
-
bogger
-
bigger
-
bagger
-
badger
-
badder
-
balder
-
alder
-
elder
-
welder
-
wilder
-
milder
-
miller
-
killer
-
tiller
-
taller
-
tallet
English dialect for hayloft or attic. The space immediately below a pitched roof.
-
mallet
-
mullet
-
pullet
-
pulled
-
mulled (trying to decide if you want a glass of warm wine)
-
culled
-
sculled
-
sculked
-
sculker (if sculked is allowed for skulked then mine must be ok)
-
sulker
-
sucker
-
pucker
-
phucker (someone from Phuket in Thailand)
plucker
-
plucked
"Hes not the pheasant plucker,
he's the pheasant plucker's son.
He's only plucking pheasants
until the pheasant plucker comes."
There were kids at school scared to attempt the above tongue-twister, and others who gleefully embraced the chance to pluck it up deliberately.
-
lucked
-
Fucked
(We were all tempted, so St Gyppo had fearlessly taken on the load to spare you all.)
-
fucker (now you'd opened the flood gates)
-
Tucker
-
ticker
-
picker
-
wicker
-
wicked
-
wicket
-
picket
-
pocket
-
rocket
-
socket
-
socked
-
docked
-
ducked ;D
-
lucked (e.g. lucked out)
-
plucked
-
plunked
(As in a ghostly dog came in and plunked a steaming great invisible ghostly turd on my keyboard. I can't see it but it stinks, and it's really messing up my touch typing.)
-
plunged
-
lunged
-
longed
-
longer
-
plonger - as in dive
-
plunger
Toilet unbunging tool.
-
plunder
-
pounder
-
pounded
-
sounded
-
rounded
-
bounded
-
bonded
-
banded
-
banged
-
bangled
-
tangled
-
mangled
-
mingled
-
mingle
-
Dingle
-
jingle
-
jangle
-
jungle
-
bungle
-
bugle
-
bugler
-
bugles
-
buglers
-
buggers
-
muggers
-
tuggers
-
luggers
-
Lugers
-
luges
-
lubes
-
tubes
-
pubes
-
pubs
-
rubs
-
grubs
-
grub
-
grab
-
crab
-
crib
-
rib
-
rob
-
lob
-
blob
-
bob
-
bomb
-
comb
-
tomb
-
tome
-
home
-
hope
-
rope (for when you run out of hope)
-
trope (for when everyone copies you and the rope)
-
tripe
-
stripe
-
strive
-
shrive
-
shrine
-
shine
-
spine
-
spin
-
Spain
-
pain
-
gain
-
grain
-
rain
-
ran
-
bran
-
brag
-
crag
-
rag
-
rage
-
raged
-
ragged
-
bragged
-
bragger
-
bagger
The 'bagger' was a rural 'piece of shit' who was paid to trap foxes alive, 'bag them', and then release them in unfamiliar territory for the huntsmen to pursue.
-
badger
-
bodger
=====
Often used nowadays to describe a low standard tradesman in any profession, as in Jokes about plumbers or appliance repairmen called 'Bodgit and Leggit', sometimes with 'Runn' as a third partner.
The real Bodger was a skilled man who made parts for wooden chairs.
===
-
dodger
-
lodger
'
(Remember, in English 'Roger the Lodger' is a nickname, not an instruction.)
-
lodge
-
lode
-
lude
-
lope
-
cope
I see you decided to ignore Fly's 'lude', but what the hell ;-)
-
cone
-
cane
-
sane
-
pane
-
pant (exactly one half of a pair of American trousers)
-
I thought you were breathing heavy
cant
the speech, not the contraction
-
scant (the clothing not the presidential intellect.)
-
scan
-
Sean
-
sewn
-
sew
-
sow
-
cow
-
cowl
-
howl
-
owl
-
oil
-
boil
-
soil
-
spoil
-
spool
-
pool
-
poll
-
pull
-
hull
-
hulk
-
bulk
-
bulb
-
bull
-
bell
-
well
-
swell
-
swill
-
shill
-
still
-
spill
-
pill
-
hill
-
mill
-
mall
-
small
-
smell
-
smelt
-
spelt
-
pelt (as in the fur growing on the back of Noiz's neck)
-
gelt
Slang term for money. Archaic but still heard fairly often.
-
melt
-
meat
-
beat
-
heat
-
heal
-
heel
-
feel
-
fell
-
hell
-
hull
-
cull
-
cult
-
colt
-
bolt
-
belt
-
bell
-
fell
-
well
-
welt
-
wilt
-
will
-
pill
-
spill
-
swill
-
still
-
stall
-
shall
-
shalt (Archaic, but not yet dead.)
-
halt
-
hilt
-
kilt
-
kiln
-
kin
-
skin
-
skip
-
(Miss him too :'( )
Kip
-
tip
-
tin
-
sin
-
pin
-
pine
-
wine
-
whine
-
while
-
whale
-
hale
-
hate
-
gate
-
game
-
fame
-
fate
-
late
-
ate
-
are
-
care
-
hare
-
share
-
shame
-
shale
-
stale
-
tale
-
gale
-
gall
-
mall
-
mail
-
wail
-
wall
-
well
-
Swell
-
swill
-
still
-
stile
-
Tile
-
tale
-
Ale
-
pale
-
Pile
-
mile
-
milk
-
silk
-
sulk
-
bulk
-
hulk
-
hull
-
hill
-
sill
-
shill
-
shell
-
Hell
-
hall
(Most halls are nervous at this time of year, for fear of being 'decked'. Mine is perfectly safe from this seasonal violence.)
-
hale
-
hare
-
tare (Biblical weed)
-
stare
me giving you the evil eye :o
-
start
A sudden involuntary movement as one recoils away from the evil eye ;-)
-
stark
-
Stork
-
storm
-
store
-
score
-
scare
-
scar
-
spar
-
spur
-
spurt
-
sport
-
snort
-
snore
-
Nore
(The Nore is a sandbank off the mouth of the Thames, which used to guarded by the Nore Lightship. There is now a modern fully automated warning buoy.
-
Norse
-
horse
-
hose
-
nose
-
Noose
-
moose
-
goose
-
gorse
-
gore <- Is that cheating?
-
Not cheating at all. Removing a single letter is a legitimate move.
tore
-
in fact, it was so fun
toe
-
to
-
no
-
go
-
so
-
lo (and behold)
-
do
-
Po (The river of that name.)
-
pop
-
sop
-
Fop
-
cop
-
clop
-
clot
-
cloth
-
clothe
-
clothed
-
clotted
-
blotted
-
slotted
-
slatted
-
splatted
-
platted
-
plotted
-
alotted
-
slotted
-
slitted
-
Slitter
=====
"He might look like a sweet little old man, but in the war he was a very accomplished slitter of throats."
===
-
slither
-
Slather
-
lather
-
later
-
slater
-
slate
-
sate
-
sale
-
pale
-
pall
-
pail
-
wail
-
hail
-
mail
-
sail
-
snail
-
nail
-
ail
-
hail
-
hall
-
halt
-
shalt
-
shall
-
small
-
mall
-
malt
-
salt
-
silt
-
slit
-
shit
-
shiv
-
Spiv (Now there's a really old word.)
-
spin
-
spine
-
spike
-
pike
-
poke
-
Joke
-
joker
-
poker
-
toker
-
Token
-
taken
-
take
-
fake
-
fame
-
frame
-
Frome
=====
It's a town on Somerset. We used to pass through it fairly often and one of my mates always said, "When in Frome, do as the Fromans do."
It was funny the first time.
===
-
Rome
Another town....
-
Roma
(possibly the same town, but also an ethnic group)
-
coma
-
comma
-
commy (variant of commie)
-
mommy
-
mummy
-
dummy
-
rummy
-
runny
-
bunny
-
burny
-
burn
-
burr
-
burp
-
bump
-
bumf
-
bum
-
tum
-
tut
-
tun (A liquid measure. A very large cask, about 252 gallons.)
-
tuna
-
tuba
-
tube
-
lube
-
lobe
-
robe
-
Rob
-
rot
-
rote
-
mote
-
smote
-
smoke
-
spoke
-
poke
-
pole
-
poll
-
moll
-
mole
Coincidently I've just got out of hospital after having a nasty mole removed from my penis.
That's the last time I try to shag one of those vicious little buggers!
-
You clown ;-)
Dole
-
pole
-
sole
-
sale
-
shale
-
shall
-
shalt
-
halt
-
malt
-
melt
-
gelt
-
gel
-
gal
-
gall
-
ball
-
bail
-
pail
-
pain
-
main
-
Cain
-
can
-
clan
-
clang
-
slang
-
sling
-
slung
(Alma used to ride in a sling when she was a baby. I always used to smile at the unwanted vision when my daughter said, "I slung Alma over my back and went walking.")
-
lung
-
dung
-
sung
-
stung
-
sting
-
swing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JFsQG2hrt0
-
sing
-
sign
-
sin
-
sine
-
tine
-
tile
-
pile
-
piles
-
Miles
-
tiles
-
tiler
-
Tiled
-
filed
-
field
-
wield
-
yield
-
bield
-
bied (Afrikaans/Dutch for 'offer')
-
bed
-
wed
-
weed
-
seed
-
speed
-
speel
-
peel
-
peal
-
seal
-
seam
-
ream
-
cream
-
dream
-
dram
-
ram
-
ramp
-
tramp
-
tram
-
trim
-
rim
-
prim
-
prom
-
pom
-
poem
-
Poe as in Edgar Allan
-
Po (An Italian River)
-
pot
-
plot
-
plod
-
plop
-
slop
-
sloop
-
stoop
-
stop
-
shop
-
shot
-
shoot
-
hoot
-
hot
-
lot
-
lit
-
slit
-
slat
-
slut
-
glut
-
gut
-
git
-
kit
-
kite
-
site
-
shite
-
Shiite
-
I'm stumped so I'll be completely unoriginal and revert back to...
shite
-
spite
-
spit
-
pit
-
bit
-
bet
-
get
-
gut
-
gun
-
pun
-
fun
-
pun
-
sun
-
shun
-
shut
-
smut
-
scut
The white tail of a wild rabbit. Sometimes the only thing a noisy stalker will see, as they dive into the hedgerows or down their burrow to avoid you. Just a derisory white flicker saying 'Up yours!"
-
Scup
A type of fish.
-
sup
-
pup
-
tup
A male sheep
-
tip
-
zip
-
zap
-
nap
-
pap
-
pep
-
peep
-
weep
-
seep
-
steep
-
sweep
-
sheep
-
sheen
-
sheet
-
sleet
-
Fleet
-
feet
-
beet
-
beat
As the sadist said to his whipping boy, "The beat goes on."
-
meat
-
teat
-
treat
-
tread
-
read
-
dread
-
dead
-
deed
-
Seed
-
weed
-
Wed
-
bed
-
bled
-
led
-
Sled
-
shed
-
sped
-
spud
-
stud
-
Sud
-
cud
-
Crud
-
crude
-
rude
-
rode
-
Ride
-
Rider
-
riper
-
ripen
-
ripe
-
gripe
-
grope
-
rope
-
rose
-
ruse
-
muse
-
must
-
just
-
jut
-
tut
-
tot
-
Thot
(the Egyptian god)
-
shot
-
hot
-
hat
-
chat
-
cheat
-
cleat
-
clean
-
lean
-
leaf
-
Lear
-
fear
-
bear
-
tear
-
team
-
steam
-
steal
-
seal
-
sell
-
swell
-
Smell
-
spell
-
spill
-
pill
-
poll
-
pole
-
pope
-
Rope
-
Dope
=====
Talking of Pope and rope... Sung on the night shift at the bakery by an ex-soldier who had served in Ireland at the height of 'the troubles', to the tune of the bloody Coke advert 'I'd like to buy the world a Coke.
"I'd like to buy The Pope a rope
and hang him from a tree,
with Bernadette and Joe Cahill too
to keep him company."
===
-
Dupe
-
dune
-
dunk
-
dank
-
dink
-
drink
-
Brink.
There once was a Drover,
by name Bluey Brink,
a bugger for work
and a devil for drink.
-
rink
-
rank
-
prank
-
frank
-
drank
-
drunk
-
dunk
-
Dank
-
dark
-
dare
-
fare
-
Flare
-
flame
-
fame
-
fade
-
fad
-
wad
-
wed
-
weed
-
sweed
-
sweet
-
tweet
-
twee
-
tee
-
tea
-
sea
-
seam
-
Steam
-
team
-
ream
-
dream
-
Cream
-
cram
-
ram
-
dam
-
dame
-
tame
-
lamb
-
You seeing cross eyed old man
Lame
-
Gawd knows what happened there ;-)
Game
-
gate
-
fate
-
pate
-
mate
-
mane
-
male
-
kale
-
ale
-
pale
-
vale
-
vile
-
vine
-
pine
-
spine
-
swine
-
swing
-
swig
-
swag
-
wag
-
wage
-
age
-
rage
-
page
-
cage
-
sage
-
sag
-
bag
-
hag
-
shag
-
slag
-
swag
-
wag
-
wad
-
bad
-
bed
-
bled
-
sled
-
shed
-
she
-
see
-
pee
-
pea
-
pear
-
spear
-
Speak
-
peak
-
peal
-
peel
-
pele
The wooden practice post savagely beaten for hours on end to develop the sword arm of medieval knights. You might be surprised just how soon you start to lose strength, and how quickly the muscle develops.
-
pile
-
pill
-
till
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Tile
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wile
(Singular, as displayed by a young woman who has yet to develop the full set of feminine wiles)
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wife
(if anything will dampen a wile, it is a marriage certificate)
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wiff
-
riff
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Rife
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Rifle
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trifle
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trifles
-
trifled
-
rifled
-
riffled
-
riffle
-
rifle
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Rifles
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We're stuck in a loop of repetitions here, aren't we? Let's kick the box and make the needle jump to another track. In fact, let's go with that for the new starter.
Track
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I thought of ruffle and raffle and then waffle and then I got stuck again so to track
rack
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race
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Grace
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graze
-
gaze
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gale
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Ale
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tale
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Tall
-
stall
-
stale
-
Tale
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tame
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Fame
-
frame
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Framed
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flamed
-
lamed
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Lame
-
lace
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race
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Trace
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tracer
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Traced
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raced
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faced
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facet
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faucet
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faucets
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Facets
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faces
-
aces
-
ales
-
tales
-
tale
-
teal
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Tea
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sea
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Seal
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seam
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Steam
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stem
-
stew
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Slew
-
slaw
-
claw
-
clan
-
can
-
pan
-
plan
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flan
-
flap
-
Lap
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lay
-
slay
-
flay
-
flag
-
slag
-
slug
-
lug
-
luge
I can't resist it...
"Why is sex with a redhead like riding a luge?"
"You just lie flat, hold on tight, and try not to die before the ride's over."
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;D ;D ;D
huge
-
hug
-
hag
-
hog
-
hop
-
hoe
-
shoe
-
shot
-
Hot
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hit
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hat
-
what
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whet
=====
What, still alive at twenty two?
A fine upstanding lad like you?
But bacon's not the only thing
that's cured by hanging from a string
Why, if your throat's so hard to slit
then slit your girl's and swing for it.
So when the dark ink of the night
spreads o'er the blotting pad of light,
lads whose work is still to do
shall whet their knives and think of you.
(A gloomy parody of Whitman's Shropshire Lad.)
===
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when
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hen
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Her
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here
-
Were
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wire
-
hire
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shire
-
shore
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spore
-
pore
-
port
-
sport
-
sort
-
snort
-
short
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Shirt
-
shit ;-)
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Sit
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slit
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Lit
-
lot
-
blot
-
clot
-
slot
-
sloth
-
cloth
-
clot
-
clit (Just to prove that some men know where to find it when appropriate.)
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lit
-
lid
-
lie
-
pie
-
pip
-
pipe
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Pope
-
pole
-
mole
-
sole
-
hole
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whole
-
whale
-
hale
-
halt
-
hall
-
shall
-
shale
-
shade
-
shape
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Share
-
shame
-
sham
-
ham
-
hum
-
him
-
shim
-
skim
-
skip
-
sip
-
slip
-
lip
-
lap
-
lop
-
pop
-
pup
-
pug
-
mug
-
bug
-
lug
-
lag
-
bag
-
brag
-
brig
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big
-
bug
-
bog
-
dog
-
doc
-
doe
-
roe
-
rod
-
road
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broad
-
brad
-
brat
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Bram
-
brim
-
Brit
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grit
-
git
-
wit
-
wet
-
whet
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when
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hen
-
pen
-
pun
-
spun
-
Spin
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spine
-
Pine
-
pile
-
pill
-
poll
-
pull
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Dull
-
doll
-
dole
-
role
-
pole
-
mole
-
mode
-
node
-
anode
-
Ande
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Exercising the rarely used 'move a single letter without disturbing the rest option'.
Dane
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done - As in, well done.
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I was thinking it was going to go to abode, then bode and back to normal.
don
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son
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sot (As in drunkard.)
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lot
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lit
-
slit
-
flit
-
flat
-
fat
-
cat
-
chat
-
shat
-
spat
-
spot
-
shot
-
shit
-
slit
-
slat
-
slate
-
late
-
lane
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sane
-
same
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shame
-
shade
-
shad (It's a fish.)
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shod
-
hod
bricklayers used to use these to carry bricks. I think
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had
=====
Patti. Technically it was the bricklayer's labourer who used to run up and down ladders with the hod full of bricks. No employer was going to pay a brickie his top wages to run around. The labourer's job was to make sure the brickie always had a supply of bricks exactly where he needed them as he worked along the wall.
A lazy or 'overly cautious' hod-carrier soon got his marching orders.
Then they introduced hoists on tall buildings, with pallets of bricks taken direct from delivery lorry to hoist with an all terrain forklift, so all the labourer had to do was run along an individual level of scaffolding setting up the 'ready use' piles.
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head
-
Well, I got the move bricks part right. 8) 8)
bead
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read
-
reed
=====
Inside information, Patti ;-). Dad carried a hod amongst other duties before he became a Foreman, Even then, if a lazy hodsman said it was impossible to do it as fast as Dad expected he'd take off his donkey jacket, spit on his hands for a theatrical flourish, and show them.
He was a working foreman, always counted himself as one of the crew when estimating how many men he needed for a particular job.
They used to carry cement/mortar up in the hod as well, because back then they didn't hoist a mixer up to the appropriate level.
A good mixer-man could just about keep pace with a crew of decent hodsmen. Between them they could make the brickie really earn his extra money.
All paid by results (Job and Finish) not the hour.
===
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rend
Gyppo, you have a wonderful family. So many stories. :D
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rind
-
grind
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grin
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grim
-
grime
-
rime
-
ripe
-
gripe
-
tripe (There's a lot of it about at the moment.)
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tribe
-
bribe
We all love Gyppo's stories, :) I could elaborate.
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bride
-
ride
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ripe
-
pipe
-
Pope
-
dope
-
dome
-
Dime
-
dim
-
rim
-
brim
-
brig
-
brag
-
crag
-
Rag
-
rage
-
sage
-
sages
-
pages
(Been a lot of those just lately, both written and read.)
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rages
(I've read and written a few of those over the past few weeks.)
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rags
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tags
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hags
-
sags
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saga
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sage
-
mage
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mange
-
range
-
rang
-
tang
-
hang
-
hung
-
lung
-
lunge
-
luge
-
huge (just saying)
-
hue
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Hum
-
Hun
-
hum
-
Hum seems to be popular ;D
Hume
-
shoulda gone with Han or Hud or hue but I didn't look back .... damn.
hums
-
gums
-
bums
-
buns
-
bunt
-
hunt
-
haunt
-
haut
-
haute
-
hate
-
mate
-
date
-
fate
-
face
-
pace
-
pale
-
pall
-
wall
-
gall
-
gale
-
hale
-
whale
-
shale
-
shalt
-
shan't
-
chant
-
chart
-
Hart.
(Archaic medieval English for a red deer stag, more than five years old.)
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shart
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=shart
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short
-
snort
New tongue twister based on the last 3 words.
Short snorting sister Susan
sniffed a smelly shart.
If sister Susan snorting sharted
a smell shart she sniffed.
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sort
-
sore
-
Spore
snort
New tongue twister based on the last 3 words.
Short snorting sister Susan
sniffed a smelly shart.
If sister Susan snorting sharted
a smell shart she sniffed.
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
I couldn't say it without laughing and stuttering.
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spoke
-
poke
-
pike
-
puke
-
duke
-
dude
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNHdPPJGowY
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dune
-
rune
-
prune
-
prude
-
pride
-
ride
-
rode
-
lode
-
lope
-
rope
-
grope
-
grove
-
grave
-
gave
-
pave
-
pace
-
puce
-
puke
-
pike (both the farm implement and the stupid boy.)
-
like
-
liken
-
liked
-
lined
-
liner
-
linear
-
It's been long enough I'm gonna cheat and say-
near
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neat
-
teat
-
feat
-
feet
-
fleet
-
sleet
-
sleek
-
sleep
-
seep
-
peep
-
weep
-
week
-
weak
-
tweak
-
teak
-
steak
-
steam
-
stream
-
scream
-
scram
-
cram
-
cramp
-
crimp
-
primp
-
pimp
-
pip
-
pup
-
pulp
-
gulp
-
gull
-
gill
-
grill
-
frill
-
trill
-
till
-
tall
-
stall
-
stale
-
scale
-
scaled
-
scalded
-
scolded
-
scolder
-
colder
-
bolder
-
older
-
odder
-
fodder
-
modder (As in one who modifies, not someone who is more 'mod'.)
-
madder
-
ladder
-
larder
-
harder
-
hoarder
-
hoarded
-
boarded
-
barded
-
bared
-
cared
-
care
-
came
-
tame
-
time
-
mime
-
mine
-
Dine
-
dime
-
dim
-
him
-
ham
-
ram
-
pram
-
tram
-
tramp
-
cramp
-
crimp
-
crime
-
scrime
In dog agility, they used to have a scribe (who wrote down the scores as the judge issued penalties) and a timer (who operated the stopwatch.) When the timing was automated (triggered by the dog taking the jump) it was possible for one person to do both jobs. That role of scribing and timer is called the scrime.
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scrimes
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=scrime
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crimes
-
rimes
-
riles
-
roles
-
rules
-
rues
-
cues
-
clues
-
clubs
-
cubs
-
cube
-
cubes
-
pubes
-
pukes
-
pokes
-
spokes
-
spikes
-
pikes
-
hikes
-
hiker
-
hiked
-
biked
-
baked
-
faked
-
flaked
-
flanked
-
flanker
-
planker
-
planked
-
plinked
-
linked
-
lined
-
pined
-
pinned
-
sinned
-
sinner
-
sinker
-
stinker
-
tinker
-
winker
-
wicker
-
picker
-
picked
-
pickled
-
tickled
-
ticked
-
licked
-
liked
-
like
-
lake
-
cake
-
came
-
same
-
sane
-
Dane
-
Dame
-
lame
-
lime
-
time
-
timer
-
timed
-
timid
-
tumid
-
humid
-
humic
-
huic
-
hic
-
chic
-
chick
-
hick
-
hack
-
hark
-
mark
-
mare
-
care
-
Carp
-
scare
-
scare
you missed carp
harp
-
hare
-
hard
-
card
-
chard
-
charm