>PARTY cannot become TRAMPS because that is making two changes - deleting the Y and adding the M.

you were doing fine with your examples until here..

PARTY can become TRAMP, changing the Y to M swapping the M for Y (also known as deleting the Y and adding the M). :-P
PARTY cannot become TRAMPS because that is making two changes - changing Y to M swapping M for Y and adding S!

(this is why I stressed that changing makes for an ambiguous count - I should try to be more ron and less ambiguous!)

-joe (not so obvious) friday

Last edited by tsuwm; 11/25/08 09:32 PM. Reason: swapping swapping for changing