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#87839 11/26/02 02:49 PM
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There is a joey of sorts in "kangaroo". Lots of sites containing "garoo". But garoo=garou,
and "loup garou" is old Canadian French for "werewolf".


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kangaroo -- garoo

Nope, violates the exclusion rule:
if all the letters are adjacent, e.g. enjoy/joy, it doesn't qualify.


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The qualify of mercy is not strained.


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qualify of mercy is not strained

Eewww! I hope not! I wouldn't feed strained qualify of mercy to a baby! Eewww!




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Even joey has a joey...joy...if you enjoy wordplay!


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if you enjoy wordplay!

If you enjoy a little puling foetus crawling about on your belly.

Is there a word for words that are similarly embedded in words that are not synonymous?


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amicable has numerous joeys, if one is not finicky about rules. am, mica, cab,cable,able and ble is
French for wheat.



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