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CAYMAN
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D > C
 
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I seem to recall that Margery Allingham wrote a bunch of mysteries featuring
 
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CAMPION
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They bang around in the stall
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PHONEMIC
 
 P-->W:  CHOW-MEIN
 Nah. Twenty minutes later you're just hungry for words again.
 
 Delete E:  M. CHOPIN (M. = "Monsieur." French was the language of the Arts, oui?)
 Nah. We'll do better closer to home.
 
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rearrange
 
 PHONETIC if not phonemic
 
 
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INCHOATE (that means I go to a prep school, right?)
 
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SECTIONAL
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DELETIONS
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LOTTERIES
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 Leona Helmsley & her husband were
 
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 Even tho' I thought we'd be looking at HOSTELRIES ...
 
 I'm sure there'll be other places along the  ...
 
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 Dan Quayle didn't say it, but it seems like something he might've ...
 
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Which is using the same letters as VENERATION three posts up.
 So which word do you want to use in the two posts you've made?
 RENOVATION or are you backing up to my VENERATION?
 
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This happens from time to time and we generally just move on.
 
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This happens from time to time and we generally just move on.There's no hard and fast rule we don't occasionally
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crossthreading: change one letter, anagram, and make up a fanciful definition:
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Among the possible REACTIONS ...
 (to foreplay?!) ... +  N
 
 
 
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