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ANGRIEST
ASTRINGE
GANTRIES
GANISTER
GASTRINE
GRANITES
GRATINES
INGRATES
NEGRITAS
RANGIEST
RESTINGA
TANGIERS
TEARINGS
Google has 71 listings for "erganist" but the English ones look to me mostly like misreadings of "organist."
There are however REGANISTs among the Animal Rights community.
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ANGRIEST-ASTRINGE-GANTRIES-GANISTER-GASTRINE-GRANITES-GRATINES-INGRATES-NEGRITAS-RANGIEST-RESTINGA-REGANIST-TANGIERS-TEARINGS- TASERING B C F H J K L M O P Q U V W Y Z tasered letters of the alphabeth
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STARING
G-->O
RATIONS
(I think the list goes up to 66 words now, because the Taser hadn't been invented when the 65 were asserted.
I see the alphabet minus the latters EASTRIN&G, but why do you call it tasered?)
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I called them tasered because those 16 letters were temporarely paralyzed in this game and that is what tapering or tapered means. I'm glad to see the spell is broken. OOOOOOOOOOOH! Yep!
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Whew! I am glad you figured them all out.
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I'd still like to know Wofa, were all those 65 whole words or did they brake'm up?
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I came away with the conclusion that they were all one-word anagrams. I don't think I jumped, but it's a possibility.
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The train is leaving the STATION again.
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Are you sure you didn't want to do something else INSTEAD?
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Such as wash my DAINTIES?
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Just as long as they aren't STAINED
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SEDATION
but even if you do it's OK, because with S --> T I have the
ANTIDOTE
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PADRONE He's a hoodlum anyway.
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PRONATED Don't take out the T, put in an N, and fly with your PTERANDON . Oh. Too late; you already did. OK, then. PADRONEI'll change the A-->S and RESPOND.
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PRONATED Don't take out the T, put in an N, and fly with your PTERANDON . Oh. Too late; you already did. OK, then. But PTERANDON is much nicer to continue from. So.
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I thought it was nice too, but for the moment we're on RESPOND. I know rules were meant to be broken, but let's not do so on purely esthetic grounds. Maybe we can work our way back to our flying reptile later.
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Okay, is fun. Reculer:
RESPOND----E to A
PARDONS----S to E
PADRONE----add T
PRONATED----add N
PTERANDON
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thanks, I did not know you could make so many changes in one
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(You're not really supposed to, but this was for a special event.)
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PTERANDON
How about N-->I = PREDATION ? (That could have come directly from PRONATED, come to think of it.) I don't capitalize it because it's so mundane and we ought to be able to come up with something more elegant.
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I've been looking for the flying fossil but then I found three words for it,Pterandon, Pteradon and Pteranodon Where do we go from here? Another language matter I might as well ask here is: Is mundane opposite to elegant? I always thought it meant the same as 'mondaine', which means elegantly wordly.
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I've always used "mundane" to mean not only worldly but with the suggestion of being ordinary, uninspired, common, simple, obvious. "Elegant" carries connotations of being special, high-class, somewhat out-of-the-way yet still appropriate, perceptive. Elegant can be simple too.
Select all that apply.
"Mondaine" as "elegantly world-wise" may place it among the faux-amis; in English "mundane" emphasizes the commonplace, rather than the loftiness of elegance. At least as I've used it. (Whom are you going to believe, me or some strange dictionary?)
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Just was surprised I must have misunderstood that word a good number of decades as I never looked it up. I did now. Thanks for the explanation. Let's grabs that PTERANDON elegantly by the wings. N to V >> DAVENPORT _ elegant enough?
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DAVENPORT
A --> I
PROVIDENT
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I think it is funny. You have "Roolz", but you change them
as you go. Sounds like a kids' game, no offense intended: just
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My bad Luke, I liked that pterandon better than my word. I know it's childish, but tja...games....hmm..tsss, sorry.
It will not happen again. (can't vouch for others)Duizend maal pardon.
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I think it is funny. You have "Roolz", but you change them
as you go. Sounds like a kids' game, no offense intended: just
interesting. Perhaps, but in general the changes are all within a fairly narrow range, and usually the same transgressions repeatedly. So far we're occasionally ignored the No-Capitalized-Words rule and the only-one-change-per-entry rule. I offer that it's a matter of esthetics, and we break the Roolz to post an entry that feels particularly elegant or clever.
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I'll say this: I've lost interest due to the lost roolz* -- does that sound disingenuous coming from a hogmaster®? *or maybe it's due to the endlessness of it all! 
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link. I'd rather use the word countlessness as I do not count posts and pages. But a hogwash might distract the attention. 
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or from rags to ruin; V to I PERDITION
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PERDITION
drop the O and do heroic things
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Where do you find these words? Wow!
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