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May #223167 12/16/2015 1:29 PM
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GINGERLY

G ---- > A

..thanks for that message to me

RELAYING ..Alas, it's back to the -ing's

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RELAYING

G --> L

LINEARLY

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.. the flavour of earth's deeper elements, said the snobby oenophile

MINERALLY

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MINERALLY

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I fear this is the end, he said
TERMINALLY

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..brought tears to my eyes, it was about a Venetian canal,not the

ALIMENTARY ..over which Derry's Joe McLaughlin warbled

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ALIMENTARY

+ F

..Doctor, My Eyes ..he said Keratitis, of the kind they call

FILAMENTARY

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Well, I'm going to take a chance here with a little "Magick, Mystery and Mayhem" and go with The General Theory of Stellar Metamorphosis.

Filmamentary(spelt this way)

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p.s. thanks for a wonderful site.

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FILMAMENTARY

E --> O

INFLAMMATORY

Who'd'a thunk it!

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INFLAMMATORY

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..who knew is right! To quote one of the heredity dictionaries, Ukraine oblasts also have variants that are

MATRONYMICAL (meaning the feminizing suffices(?) of family names can be added at the end of the unpronounceable double-barreled names of the current generation PS: If this don't fly, thedouble-switches MATRIMONIALLY & MATRIMONIAL are others

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Unpronounceable double-barreled?


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Yeah, you know ..how the British have Lady Smith-Jones, for example ..

well, the e.g. I found for matronymical Ukrainian names were

Ivano-Frankivsk and (the matronymical) Ivano-Frankivshchyna ...I might get the Ivano- part right, but I'm not trying to pronounce the latter half ( I couldn't even TYPE it right the first time, much less say it)

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Gotcha.
We are really in a situation wordwise


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MATRONYMICAL

L ---- > R

but nonetheless anagrammatical is the son of Robt. Affleck & Maiden Fadzien MacMartin of Letterfinley,Scotland in 1635ff.

ROY MACMARTIN whose fam. coat-of-arms is in Ancestry.com; you've no doubt heard of him

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I can make nothing out of roymacmartin.
Luck to anyone who can.


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ROY MACMARTIN

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..and maybe (like me, here) a straw-grasper, in seeking the

MAIN MORTUARY ..as far as dearly departed Roy's family tree goes,I wouldn't be surprised if Ben Affleck were quietly putting together a bio-pic to mark the 380th anniv. of Roy's birth

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Yes, but we try to keep it to a single word.


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yes, we do ..

and when a single word escapes, just tryin' to keep the boat afloat, the ball in the air ..

in the hope that finding something even remotely viable will enable someone to see yet another iteration to keep us going..

obviously, these were each a stretch, but offered humbly & in good faith ..

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Does the sex change to PATRONYMICAL give us anything better to work with?

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only if you P> M



MATRONYMICAL

but use either if they work.


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Originally Posted By: endymion6
yes, we do ..

and when a single word escapes, just tryin' to keep the boat afloat, the ball in the air ..

in the hope that finding something even remotely viable will enable someone to see yet another iteration to keep us going..

obviously, these were each a stretch, but offered humbly & in good faith ..




Yes, I know you are, keep up the good work.


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PATRONYMICAL

drop L

Everything I do is in code...BWA-HA-HA...

CRYPTOMANIA

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CRYPTOMANIAC


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...not helping matters any, after we jump through neologisms trying to REDUCE the letter count to something more versatile ;-)

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I know = I was just teasing:

-C


CRYPTOMANIA

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...except I do!

CRYPTOMANIA

drop T

PYROMANIAC

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PYROMANIAC

- Y

..like

PANORAMIC

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Good for you for finding that one! It always helps to take a broader view of things.

PANORAMIC

We should drop the P and

call it MACARONI


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-M


OCARINA

brovo both of you

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OCARINA

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CAROLINA

A ---- > G

..not necessarily with Mitch; I hear they have quite a moon there

CAROLING

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C > B



LABORING


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LABORING

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IGNORABLE

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..instead, please bring that dead horse over here; while I won't go into too much detail, I'd simply like to point out, yet again, but certainly with no intent of

BELABORING

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BELABORING

O ---- > B

..after many failed attempts, I can offer this, but/and hope it's not just another address in the same cul-de-sac

BLABBERING ..Happy New Year! (sincere..not blabbed or -ered!)

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HAPPY NEW YEAR


I still got nuthing !


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BLABBERING - B

If I ask a girl to the prom, and she says OK, and her parents say OK, then she's

BRINGABLE, right?

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BRINGABLE

B ---- > T

..while I can't second the motion, I'm all for its

RETABLING ..and if we can re-present the data in rows and columns instead of the way it is now, it'd be easier to read

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