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RECEPTION
change E to N and wind up in New Jersey !
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Nice links. Is that "prenticed" as in what happened when Fredrick Was a Little Lad? I suspect the search for the other 900 legs wouldn't be worth the brain power expended. Who's little lad Fredrick? This prenticed is like in the two dictionaries that have it. What's the story of Fredrick ? A millipede? A spider of the thousand legs? When Fredrick was a little lad
he had a web for habitat (?)
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" SONG -- RUTH When Frederic was a little lad he proved so brave and daring, His father thought he'd 'prentice him to some career seafaring. I was, alas! his nurs'rymaid, and so it fell to my lot To take and bind the promising boy apprentice to a pilot -- A life not bad for a hardy lad, though surely not a high lot, Though I'm a nurse, you might do worse than make your boy a pilot. I was a stupid nurs'rymaid, on breakers always steering, And I did not catch the word aright, through being hard of hearing; Mistaking my instructions, which within my brain did gyrate, I took and bound this promising boy apprentice to a pirate. A sad mistake it was to make and doom him to a vile lot. I bound him to a pirate -- you! -- instead of to a pilot. I soon found out, beyond all doubt, the scope of this disaster, But I hadn't the face to return to my place, and break it to my master. A nurs'rymaid is not afraid of what you people call work, So I made up my mind to go as a kind of piratical maid-of-all-work. And that is how you find me now, a member of your shy lot, Which you wouldn't have found, had he been bound apprentice to a pilot. " ... (I can cite chapter and verse if you want, but perhaps with the entirety visible that's no longer needed. If you like, you can hear it sung here )
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Ah, a Gilbert and Sulliven Musical.  If PRINCETON is allowed why not PINKERTON too? (C to k )
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I can't make another word using only one change.
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Nor can I,no matter how I try to get tinkertoy into it.
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You did not ban proper nouns in the rules, but we have mostly avoided them. On this page there are 2 in a row. They could be declared invalid and we could go back to RECEPTION. But I haven't tried PINKERTON yet...
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By all means, return to RECEPTION.
Pinkerton is as useless as Princeton. Proper nouns out? Fine with me. Good luck.
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By all means, return to RECEPTION.
Pinkerton is as useless as Princeton. Proper nouns out? Fine with me. Good luck. I'm not routinely into this thread, although I occasionally read it. As a matter of history, while Pinkerton was/is a proper noun, it became a common noun as well. An agent (spy or counter-spy) of the Pinkerton organization employed by the US Federal Government during the War of Northern Aggression, otherwise known as the War Between the States or the Civil War, became known as a "pinkerton."
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if we're going to pink nits on this, Pinkerton is usually capitalized, after Allan Pinkerton (died 1884 American detective: private detective). AND proper noun, a noun that designates a particular being or thing, does not take a limiting modifier, and is usually capitalized in English.
I don't think you can call Pinkerton common. even derivatives such as Pinkertonian and Pinkertonism are capitalized.
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OTOH, a quick perusal of the previous five(5!) pages of this thread reveals the following (I'm sure I missed some):
Shanana Santana 'A A Milne'! Houston Tasmanian Stalinism Interpol Tangiers
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I'm sure I miss them all.
two,times'up. drop C EREPTION
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EREPTION ?? (too lazy to look it up) Oh well. add an S and INTERPOSEaddendum: I looked it up and now have it on good authority that it really is a word.
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PINKERTON
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PROMINENT
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IMPORTUNE
(Sorry, you asked for it!)
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If we were indeed playing Scrabble (r) we wouldn't be allowed to use proper nouns.
IMPORTUNE
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ERUPTION
Change U to S
PROTEINS
(I would have preferred to add a C and make it into CUPERTINO, home of that upstart computer company, but okay, I'll go along with you anti-capitalists)
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PINKERTON M for K:PROMINENT For the brave! I really thought Pinkerton was a dead end street. RIPOSTE to POINTER S to N
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PORTING
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IN-GROUP
(15 onelook.com dictionaries include the hyphen; ten omit it)
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Uh? Back to U for I POURING
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Nuts. Takes two steps to get to PEIGNOIR...
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OK. if evolution  ( feathers and furs and glossy scales and what did we get?) God/Creation, whatever your beliefs, had provided us with a nice cover of permanent fur, I would not have made this stupid remark. But as it is, are you sure it takes only two steps? How do you undo a U and add an E and an extra I in two steps only?
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OK, then
POURING
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GROWNUP
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(I agree that Pinkerton should have been allowed, since the precedent for proper nouns was clearly set earlier. It's not Scrabble we're playing!)
I believe the only possible word is the most obvious one, namely adding S to form the plural. You can't make any others by adding, changing or deleting any letters I think?
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I believe the only possible word is the most obvious one, namely adding S to form the plural. You can't make any others by adding, changing or deleting any letters I think?
Change W --> U GROWNUP --> UNGROUPfollowing your lead GROWNUPS --> UNGROUPS
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Wait a minute. Let's go back to GROWNUP. Change G to E and get UNPOWER. It can be the obsolete Piers Plowman noun, or the verb for what you do when you remove the outboard motor from your boat...
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UNPOWER
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REWOUND
Pick whichever meaning you like! :0)
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Lot of unning going on. rewound --> U to D DROWNED
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D to F
FROWNED
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...tried to change N to L and make "FLOWER'D" but onelook.com says no go.
Guess I'll have to settle for dropping the W to make
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Put the W back and drop the F
WONDER
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No one in particular, (or all) just to change course,
N to I -- WEIRDO
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Back to the Valentines Day theme -
add S
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drop I- DOWERS- D to L LOWERS -add F FLOWERS
that what you mean?
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