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MECKWELL
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Posted: Mon Nov 26, 2007 6:31 pm Post subject: Word Puzzles |
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If any of you out there have any interesting word puzzles, I'd be interested in hearing them.
I'll start by offering these:
1) What is the longest common English word that uses only one vowel and does not use the letter 'y'? Hint: It is nine letters long.
2) Name three adjectives that never precede the word they are modifying?
And a very, very easy one:
3) Name the five English words that are four letters long and end in UNT (not the C-word)?
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Dome Vans Guest
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Posted: Mon Nov 26, 2007 6:53 pm Post subject: |
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I've found that a good filler for five minutes at the end of the lesson is taken up with word puzzles and riddles.
One that is way too complicated for my students is:
How high would you have to count before you use the letter A in the english language spelling of a whole number? |
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The_Eyeball_Kid

Joined: 20 Jun 2007
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Posted: Mon Nov 26, 2007 6:56 pm Post subject: |
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Dome Vans wrote: |
I've found that a good filler for five minutes at the end of the lesson is taken up with word puzzles and riddles.
One that is way too complicated for my students is:
How high would you have to count before you use the letter A in the english language spelling of a whole number? |
One hundred and one? |
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The_Eyeball_Kid

Joined: 20 Jun 2007
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Posted: Mon Nov 26, 2007 7:00 pm Post subject: Re: Word Puzzles |
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MECKWELL wrote: |
If any of you out there have any interesting word puzzles, I'd be interesting in hearing them.
I'll start by offering these:
1) What is the longest common English word that uses only one vowel and does not use the letter 'y'? Hint: It is nine letters long.
2) Name three adjectives that never precede the word they are modifying?
And a very, very easy one:
3) Name the five English words that are four letters long and end in UNT (not the C-word)? |
3 - aunt, bunt, gunt (cross between a gut and a c*nt), hunt, punt, runt. And c*nt.
1 - dunno. give us a clue.
2 - dunno. |
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Dome Vans Guest
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Posted: Mon Nov 26, 2007 7:01 pm Post subject: |
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The_Eyeball_Kid wrote: |
Dome Vans wrote: |
I've found that a good filler for five minutes at the end of the lesson is taken up with word puzzles and riddles.
One that is way too complicated for my students is:
How high would you have to count before you use the letter A in the english language spelling of a whole number? |
One hundred and one? |
Nope apparently it's written one hundred one. |
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Underwaterbob

Joined: 08 Jan 2005 Location: In Cognito
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Posted: Mon Nov 26, 2007 7:06 pm Post subject: |
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What is the longest one syllable word? |
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SeoulShakin

Joined: 05 Jan 2006 Location: Seoul
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Posted: Mon Nov 26, 2007 7:09 pm Post subject: |
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Dome Vans wrote: |
The_Eyeball_Kid wrote: |
Dome Vans wrote: |
I've found that a good filler for five minutes at the end of the lesson is taken up with word puzzles and riddles.
One that is way too complicated for my students is:
How high would you have to count before you use the letter A in the english language spelling of a whole number? |
One hundred and one? |
Nope apparently it's written one hundred one. |
One thousand? |
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The_Eyeball_Kid

Joined: 20 Jun 2007
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Posted: Mon Nov 26, 2007 7:10 pm Post subject: |
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Dome Vans wrote: |
The_Eyeball_Kid wrote: |
Dome Vans wrote: |
I've found that a good filler for five minutes at the end of the lesson is taken up with word puzzles and riddles.
One that is way too complicated for my students is:
How high would you have to count before you use the letter A in the english language spelling of a whole number? |
One hundred and one? |
Nope apparently it's written one hundred one. |
Is it arses! That's maybe how AMERICANS write it, but not we!
EDIT: See also - OOOooonnNE HUNDRED AND EIGHTYYYYYyyy! |
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Dome Vans Guest
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Posted: Mon Nov 26, 2007 7:25 pm Post subject: |
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SeoulShakin wrote: |
Dome Vans wrote: |
The_Eyeball_Kid wrote: |
Dome Vans wrote: |
I've found that a good filler for five minutes at the end of the lesson is taken up with word puzzles and riddles.
One that is way too complicated for my students is:
How high would you have to count before you use the letter A in the english language spelling of a whole number? |
One hundred and one? |
Nope apparently it's written one hundred one. |
One thousand? |
On the button. Sorry eyeball kid.
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EDIT: See also - OOOooonnNE HUNDRED AND EIGHTYYYYYyyy! |
Bullseye quotes from Tony Green are yet to be introduced in Korea. Soon hopefully. |
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yingwenlaoshi

Joined: 12 Feb 2007 Location: ... location, location!
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Posted: Mon Nov 26, 2007 7:31 pm Post subject: |
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"The one most commonly cited is screeched (nine letters). However, one ought to mention also scratched, scrounged, scrunched, stretched, and the plural nouns straights and strengths (all with nine letters).
The complete Oxford English Dictionary also indicates the existence of scraughed, scrinched, scritched, scrooched, sprainged, spreathed, throughed, and thrutched.
The OED also cites a single instance of the ten-letter word scraunched, from the 1620 English translation of Don Quixote."
What is the internet?
"Strengths" is the longest word that uses one vowel and doesn't end in "y"? |
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The_Eyeball_Kid

Joined: 20 Jun 2007
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Posted: Mon Nov 26, 2007 7:40 pm Post subject: |
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Dome Vans wrote: |
SeoulShakin wrote: |
Dome Vans wrote: |
The_Eyeball_Kid wrote: |
Dome Vans wrote: |
I've found that a good filler for five minutes at the end of the lesson is taken up with word puzzles and riddles.
One that is way too complicated for my students is:
How high would you have to count before you use the letter A in the english language spelling of a whole number? |
One hundred and one? |
Nope apparently it's written one hundred one. |
One thousand? |
On the button. Sorry eyeball kid.
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EDIT: See also - OOOooonnNE HUNDRED AND EIGHTYYYYYyyy! |
Bullseye quotes from Tony Green are yet to be introduced in Korea. Soon hopefully. |
I demand a steward's enquiry. |
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Underwaterbob

Joined: 08 Jan 2005 Location: In Cognito
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Posted: Mon Nov 26, 2007 9:35 pm Post subject: |
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squirrelled = the longest one syllable word. |
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Boodleheimer

Joined: 10 Mar 2006 Location: working undercover for the Man
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Posted: Mon Nov 26, 2007 10:19 pm Post subject: |
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what are the two countries that begin with A but don't end in A (in the English language)?
--no 'cunning'-- |
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The_Eyeball_Kid

Joined: 20 Jun 2007
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Posted: Mon Nov 26, 2007 10:22 pm Post subject: |
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KWhitehead wrote: |
what are the two countries that begin with A but don't end in A (in the English language)?
--no 'cunning'-- |
Afghanistan, Azerbaijan. |
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Dome Vans Guest
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Posted: Mon Nov 26, 2007 10:27 pm Post subject: |
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Underwaterbob wrote: |
squirrelled = the longest one syllable word. |
Eh! Isn't that two, Squi-rrelled. |
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