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#75729 07/10/02 05:49 PM
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Let's have some comment about Wordsmith's theme challenge for this week.
So far all I can see is that each has the letter "i". One Turkish word sure
complicates matters.


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If you add a letter to the start of each of the words, you get a new series of words. That's the best I can do.


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if he truly doesn't remember how these got into his notes, I'd respectfully suggest that he culled them from other "hard word" sources; for instance he could have gotten all three from the onlline Dictionary of Difficult Words, and he received 'ubiety' and 'ambit' via the wwftd listserve. 8-)


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Dubiety, gambit, tirade? Thanks boronia


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ou're elcome!


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PLANATE: A term used for a plate of one latitudinal series which contacts a single
plate of an adjacent latitudinal series, so that the boundary between the ...
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festival was easy.



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Can't somebody to better than "planate" for putting a head on "lanate"?



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