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No. I might equally have used Inverness and the Kent coast as two examples.
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Is it something to do with Post Codes?
The letters aren't used in the second section of a post code for example?Comment
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Congratulations Chasmmi!
While the first (or 'outward') half of the postcode is based on town names etc. and therefore uses all letters (except J merely because it is not needed), the second (or 'inward') half does not use C, I, K, M, O or V.
Don't know why (apart from the obvious assertion that I and O resemble 1 and 0), although maybe V because it is so often confused with B verbally.Comment
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ROUND FORTY-FOUR
What can you do to the words 'longer' and 'longest', that you cannot do with the word 'long'?
It is nothing to do with meaning or context.Comment
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Remove letters from the end to form a shorter word?
"If anybody can knock these three balls in, this man can."
David Taylor, 11 January 1982, as Steve Davis prepared to pot the blue, in making the first 147 break on television.Comment
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Use them to write a limerick?
There was a girl from Yarrawonga
Who said the superlative of "short" was "Longer";
Her friend said "No, it's 'Longest' "
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But which of them was the wronger?"If anybody can knock these three balls in, this man can."
David Taylor, 11 January 1982, as Steve Davis prepared to pot the blue, in making the first 147 break on television.Comment
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Lo and behold, that is not the correct answer!Originally Posted by davis_greatestRemove letters from the end to form a shorter word?Comment
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Lol - good point!Originally Posted by The Statman
"If anybody can knock these three balls in, this man can."
David Taylor, 11 January 1982, as Steve Davis prepared to pot the blue, in making the first 147 break on television.Comment
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anything to do with scrabble?Comment
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Nothing to do with Scrabble. It is something you can do to one of the letters (L, O, N or G) in 'longer' and 'longest' which would leave you with a different real word, which you cannot do to 'long' to leave you with a real word.Comment
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remove the g?Comment
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That may be true (although one could dispute 'lonest') but it's not the answer I'm thinking of.
The two words are NOT the comparative and superlative of an adjective (as in the -er and -est on the end of 'long'; they just happen to have the same ending like Interest is not the superlative of Inter and Butter is not the comparative of But).Comment
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How about changing the N into a G
Long would become Logg which doesn't exist)
Longer becomes Logger (ie a lumberjack)
Longest becomes Loggest (and here I quote the bible, Genesis Chapter VII Verses 12-17): "and verily all was completed by the 7th day, and God was pleased and said to himself 'Lord, thou hast worked well and thou deservest some fun. Loggest thou on to the internet and see who won the Chinese Open'. And it was done."Comment
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A good effort, but I cannot accept the word 'loggest'. Perhaps I should say that the letter that needs doing something with is the 'L'. Then we can move on to another question!Comment
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exchange the l by c to get conger and congest (but cong is a word as well)
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