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Sorry, must have been sleeping, missed the call.
----please, draw me a sheep----
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Toadies was a fine transformation, but it quickly disappeared into details. The adjusted adusted is a too tough cooky.
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READJUST
I was going to make TRADEUPS but that's either hyphenated or too cute or just plain forced...
So instead let's just retire it and consider it PASTURED.
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PASTURED
- A
SPURTED
...out of the cow! he he
This word is so funny to me! It's almost onomatopoetic, and who knows what crazy etymology it has! :0)
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"to gush out, squirt," 1570, variant of spirt, perhaps cognate with M.H.G. spürzen "to spit," and sprützen "to squirt" (see sprout). The noun in this sense is attested from 1775.
Putting aside who M.H.G. (Middle Heights Germanic?) might be: D to O POSTURE ,thanks for onomatopotamos.
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POSTURE
I'd love to make that into PROUST.
"Not Allowed! - that's capitalized!" comes the expected attack.
Okay, okay. I'll just have to change U to I for my RIPOSTE.
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I can REPOSIT that in my memory bank.
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FESTIVAL
F ---> G
VESTIGAL
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Erm...as Google.com puts it, "Did you mean vestigial?"
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link Here vestigal is refered to as vestigal organs, though in the article vestigial is said to be the usual term. On from here: S to N VIGILANTE
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VIGILANTE
Just adding another I for INVIGILATE seems so...straightforward.
Whereas changing G to E would be ELEVATING the entire conversation, wouldn't it?
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I'm a biologist & have used and read ' vestigal' often for 20+ yrs. I didn't realize it's jargon. I guess I'll consider it a vestigal word from now on.  Coming to my own defense is so (v to n) inelegant.
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Now here's a fruitful discussion: INELEGANTIf we swap left and right (L--> R) we get TANGERINE 
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Plus they are real good to eat. Keep it fruitful then G to C NECTARINE
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an ENTRANCING thread!
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Does NECTARINE to ENTRANCING work? The process would have to be
E --> NG, and that's not a permitted transition.
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But..it's entrancing that it does work with I to D ENTRANCED
Cheers olly.
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Cheers olly.Happy to help out. I must admit I was into the DECANTER last night. (He says with a mischievous grin) 
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Better be careful, though. The last one who spent to much time with the
DECANTER
T --> E
CAREENED down the road all the way home.
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He even did a complete 180
E ----> T
and the next morning, blearily RECANTED the protestations of sobriety he had made that night.
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Let's brighten up the thread a bit:
RECANTED
N --> O
DECORATE
(We might even drop another E and get some ART DECO but I wouldn't recommend it)
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Drop E CORDATE decorations or (back to biology) leaves.
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...hope yours never encounters the arrhythmia known as C-->S TORSADE de Pointes. Nasty, that one is.
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At least one
D --> N
SENATOR is out of rhythm.
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OSTREA
O --> I (Is that the "oi" in oyster?) (Nope, sorry, that would have been A-->Y)
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STRIAE
add D
ASTRIDE
(and if you add another S you'll have a BIG problem!)
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 Like when an add  > ASTEROID hits you over the head?
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such (A->S) DISTRESS! 
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