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Louise Cornwallis
Louise Cornwallis
Nomad

Apr-12-2010 05:12

All you've got to do is form a word from a word posted by someone earlier, and post a word yourself for the next person to form a word from that, who will post a word themselves, and so on. You can write phrases too, if you like.

Ready? Let's begin!
1) Pigwidgeon

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Cordelia Falco
Cordelia Falco
Battered Shoe

Apr-14-2010 02:09

(Ignoring plurals and more than one verb form, and three-letter words cos I'm feeling lazy!)

storm, sour, tumor, moss, roust, torn, strum, roost, tour, oust, moor, root, rout, truss, toss, moon, smut, snout, mourn, sort, moot, snort, mount, onus, norm, unto, onto, snot, turn, moot, must, muss, morn, motor

How about 'orange'?

Lyra Cornwallis
Lyra Cornwallis
Lucky Stiff

Apr-14-2010 03:51

Or, range, anger, ran, an, gran, no, on, go, ago, ear, near, gone.

Shall we 'whistle'?

Cordelia Falco
Cordelia Falco
Battered Shoe

Apr-17-2010 00:01

Let's! :)

Also: welt, list, whist, hist, lest, west, wilt, while, this, thews, site, shew, stile, tile, hilt, wish, with, isle and another word I'm feeling too polite to mention.

Drought?

Super Bess
Super Bess

Apr-17-2010 04:57

Ought, hot, got, trod, gut, tug, go, do, to.

Orangutans!

Tagasiyasat
Tagasiyasat

Apr-20-2010 22:51

sat, tar, rat, art, ant, snot, tan, ran, nor, tang, gnat, nut, ton, not, or, an, on, rang, rag, gar, gas, sag

Unfortunate?

Cordelia Falco
Cordelia Falco
Battered Shoe

Apr-21-2010 05:25

front, fount, fort, fate, fore, tore, tart, tuna, fear, tear, fare, font, earn, fern, tarn, tern, fatter, rune, tuner, tenor, feat, fart, raft, rant, four, tour, noun, fortune, otter, rate, toner, tuft, ante, aunt, taunt, runt, turn, torn, treat, tufa, tanner, tofu, trout, outer, unto

A challenge: make at least 12 words of three letters or more from 'donkey'

Louise Cornwallis
Louise Cornwallis
Nomad

Apr-21-2010 10:02

Are there really 12 3-letter words in the word donkey? All I can find (3 letter words) are don, one, Noe, nod, key, doe, end, den, Yoe (place in New York), oye (hear in Spanish) Ken and Ned.
I'd like to know what the words are... these are just the ones I can think of. :D

Mysterious





Kathryn Gumshoe the 7th
Kathryn Gumshoe the 7th
Battered Shoe

Apr-21-2010 16:57

ours, us, or, is, mist, you, your, set, met, sit, use, toy, some, rise, stir, tire, sour, rum, tumor, outer, sir, toes, muse, most, must, rot, rut, sort, oust, mouser, mousy, yes, soot, site, miss, yore, sore, toss, more, smore, REM, yet, rest, moss, tis, muss, tome, Rome, Sumer, tour, route, rite, riot, surmise, Mars, rye, me, so, it

palpable

Louise Cornwallis
Louise Cornwallis
Nomad

Apr-22-2010 08:50

pal, lap, all, able, lab, ale, pea, Pell, pale, be, ball, ape, peal, leap

Adventure!

Cordelia Falco
Cordelia Falco
Battered Shoe

Apr-22-2010 23:39

Louise, I did say 'three letters *or more*'! Though you seemed to manage anyway :) You left out 'yen' and 'yon' - can't think of any more 3s off the top of my head.

Back to 'adventure' - vent, rave, nave, tread, vane, dean, read, aver, tuner, retuned, reave, runt, neat, turned, raven, rude, true, rant, ante, dare, eaten, advent, endure, dart, trade, advert, vend, trend, enter, endure

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