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I remember when you said this about five letter words.
Is this progress????


Inflation.? :-)
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E-->O

DORITOS

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...over generations, maybe

STORIED ..or able to leap tall buildings???

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+ N

..one of my less savory reactions; they love to talk about how I just

SNORTED

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RODENT


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..no...Why? ..'Cause it's killing me

TORMENT

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...have you heard Amahl ?

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Actually, I think I saw it first in the 50's.
And I have the disc, only an hour long, nice at Christmas.

T > E


ONETIME


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..no less than honorable

MENTION

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CONDIMENT

Nice try, but no cigar. It would have to be O --> DN


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MORONI



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and a song sung by Libera, for one.

http://www.libera.org.uk/



I got nuthin'.



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CHORION

(For a picture, see here.)

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CHORION

- O

..Centaur

CHIRON

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I > A


CHARON drives the boat over the River Styx


or ANCHOR


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...and let's hear that song again; everybody sing

CHORAL

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CHORAL

Drop O

the LARCH

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CHURL

H --> Y

CURLY

(and Larry, and Moe, oh my!)

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BURLY


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BURLY

Let's get the L out of here

..France's flag has some red in it; and the Larch was a Monty Python skit

RUBY

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BURY

drop R

BUY


(P.S. up a few panels, "The flag of France is blue, white, and red" was so titled because the letter change involved was "Drop O" and suggested a phrase from French I (many, many years ago) which went "Le drapeau francais est bleu, blanc, et rouge" - translated above.)

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BUOY


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Years ago in Milano, I tried to ask a waiter, in Italian, if my breakfast tin of marmalade was a fem. noun..His reply .. Oh, no, Signore, a tin of jelly is a BOY forever (I swear that's true!)

BOY ...Btw, that Fr. phrase might have rhymed better if 'le drapeau ... sont rouge, blanc, et bleu' ..non?

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TOY


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EYOT

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EYOT

O --> I

YETI

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.. with a crowd, the card to play is a

TREY

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...said the attorney,

TREY

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RETRY

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BERRY

R --> L

BERYL

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