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Originally Posted By: wofahulicodoc
WRONGEST

change S to I

TOWERING

We ought to be able to go on from there.

But not the only one!
ORANGEST (W --> A)
ESTROGEN (W --> E)
STURGEON (W --> U)
STRONGER (W --> R)
SONGSTER (W --> S)
And those are just replacing the W. There must be tons more, but I got tired... So, no stalemate, Fauve! :0)

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I 'specially like "estrogen" and "songster."


TOWERING

Carry on!

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I bow to your Scrabblenessess, two and wofa! I had the feeling my giving up would bring out the ScrabbleBraniacs! Well done!

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T to C

COWERING


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or maybe POWERING.


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Lowering


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add an F


FLOWERING

Sorry for the many posts: Just learning how to edit. Hope this
works. If not, I'll try better: Hope no one is offended. And
I am not interested in running up a posting score: I gave up
competition when I retired. It's too tiring.

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Originally Posted By: tsuwm
that's where we were before WRONGEST!!

(maybe it's time to start over, with a new thread..)
No tsuwm, this is the long never ending nightmare thread.

drop L - FOREWING

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drop the W and it's FOREIGN

It is the thread that never ends -
it just goes on and on, my friends.
Somebody started posting here not knowing what it was,
and we'll continue posting here forever just because
it is the thread that never ends . . .

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...the thread that never ends -
it just goes on, my friends.
You started here, not knowing what it was,
and we'll be posting here
forever and a year;
it is the thread, the thread that never ends . . .



FOREIGN

Or, you could just drop the F and

IGNORE the whole thing...

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>ignore

yeah sure.. thanks a lot for the earworm!

o to a - REGAIN

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..and drop the i for ANGER

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Originally Posted By: tsuwm
ANGER


E-->I

GRAIN

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that song does start to GRIND (A-->D) at your nerves.

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Please gimme back that A, Z! to DARING

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Originally Posted By: Fauve
I could be wrong, but I can't come up with anything after WRONGEST.
Can anyone else? Does that mean FallibleFiend won the game!
I've never been around when we've arrived at a stalemate. Cool.

I don't know which was wrongest - Fauve's mistake in going from wrongest to strongest, or the word 'wrongest' itself! Oh wait a minute I just pulled the rug from under me didn't I...

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I adds to DARING
for RAIDING which is often daring.

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Originally Posted By: The Pook
RAIDING

I --> P

DRAPING

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Drop the D

RAPING


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Nasty, nasty....

painer trying again... panier

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um.. twosleepy is that a dictonary word or commonly used at all? Of course I want to move on to the PAINTER now that the occasion
is presented.

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I fixed it, Bran, and you don't have to change yours at all; it still goes. :0)

I now I can put PANNIER

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N to P makes it NAPPIER

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I'm sure you will be as happy making your baskets and your nappies as I am making my paintings. I could'nt be HAPPIER. laugh
(did we cover all the appiers now?)

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Originally Posted By: BranShea
HAPPIER.


P-->S

HARPIES

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(did we cover all the appiers now?)

aside: SAPPIER

-joe (or, not all the important ones) friday

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Originally Posted By: tsuwm
(did we cover all the appiers now?)

aside: SAPPIER

-joe (or, not all the important ones) friday

Not quite (another aside:) Harpies would be Flappier than some.

/end aside

HARPIES plus S = SHARPIES
(which is a real word and has at least three separate meanings)

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Adding E ...

PHARISEES

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ooh, nice one!

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PHARISEES... oooh, thats a keeper.

S --> L

SHAPELIER

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SHAPELIER

...and she has the

PEARLIEST teeth, too!

and that's just the APPETISER, if you then change the L to a P !)



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APPETISER

add z for the plural alternative spelling

APPETIZERS

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Grutsjmeu word ! mad

Oh , well just APPLETIZERS (not brilliant but pretty sparkling )

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Just to try to get this back down to manageable levels I'll commandeer two steps, and trust that someone after me will continue:

APPLETIZERS

drop a P and get

PLASTERIZE

change the Z to an S and get

PSALTERIES


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Well done Wofa.

PSALTERIES

I -> R

PLASTERERS

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Originally Posted By: olly


PLASTERERS


Drop an S

REPLASTER

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Originally Posted By: TheFallibleFiend
Originally Posted By: olly
PLASTERERS
Drop an S REPLASTER

Those plurals are perilous.

Add L TRAPSELLER

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Forging into the "seller" group:

ARTSELLER

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Sold! I for the L > RETAILERS

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BranShea, you big sneak! I was just about to post RETAILERS!

Ha ha!

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