Doublets...

Dakkus · Post by **Dakkus** » Wed Jun 01, 2005 4:57 pm

androl wrote:if you mean that body part:

Milz... [anat.] splenic; splenetic
Milz {f} [anat.] spleen; lien
Milz {f} milt

so there are three different words for it in English?

splenic and splenetic seem to be adjective forms of spleen, not actually words of their own.

Craft · Post by **Craft** » Wed Jun 01, 2005 5:20 pm

How about gain -> lose.

Divine · Post by **Divine** » Wed Jun 01, 2005 10:31 pm

gain
Gail
gall
gale
bale
bane
bone
done
dose
lose

Craft · Post by **Craft** » Thu Jun 02, 2005 4:05 pm

Is this possible at all?

rock -> jazz

More:

hiss -> roar

give -> take

milk -> sour

Divine · Post by **Divine** » Thu Jun 02, 2005 4:16 pm

Here we go again with 'milt'.

hiss
kiss
kist
mist
milt
mill
hill
hell
heel
heal
hear
pear
bear
boar
roar

Divine · Post by **Divine** » Thu Jun 02, 2005 4:17 pm

30 seconds:

give
gave
cave
cake
take

Divine · Post by **Divine** » Thu Jun 02, 2005 4:25 pm

This was a bit more hairy:

milk
silk
sill
sell
tell
toll
tool
pool
poor
pour
sour

From rock to jazz? Uggh...that'll be a tough one. By not looking into it more carefully, I'd say it's not possible. I can think of only one word away from 'jazz' and it's a bit dirty.

noogie · Post by **noogie** » Thu Jun 02, 2005 4:51 pm

Divine wrote:This was a bit more hairy:

milk
silk
sill
sell
tell
toll
tool
pool
poor
pour
sour

From rock to jazz? Uggh...that'll be a tough one. By not looking into it more carefully, I'd say it's not possible. I can think of only one word away from 'jazz' and it's a bit dirty.

Now we want to know that word of course....

Divine · Post by **Divine** » Thu Jun 02, 2005 7:29 pm

noogie wrote:
Divine wrote:From rock to jazz? Uggh...that'll be a tough one. By not looking into it more carefully, I'd say it's not possible. I can think of only one word away from 'jazz' and it's a bit dirty.
Now we want to know that word of course....

Umm...I dunno how appropriate it is to use such words on this kind of a board with undoubtedly minorities reading it too, but here goes: the word is 'jizz' which is a slang term for the thick, viscid, whitish fluid of the male reproductive tract that is ejaculated during sexual excitement.

Craft · Post by **Craft** » Thu Jun 02, 2005 9:29 pm

While you're trying to shift from rock to jazz, here's one more:

bore -> yawn

And yet another:

note -> coin

and some variants of that:

bill -> coin
bill -> note

(As I have understood, the two words should be somehow related to each other, and preferably in a bit funny way, so I keep inventing this kind of pairs...)

Here's one where the word must be reversed:

note -> Eton

Divine · Post by **Divine** » Thu Jun 02, 2005 10:43 pm

This was a quick one, needed only to check if 'yaws' is a real word.

bore
more
mare
mars
jars
jaws
yaws
yawn

Divine · Post by **Divine** » Thu Jun 02, 2005 10:58 pm

Ouchie...this was a pain in the arse:

note
dote
date
dane
lane
land
laid
lain
loin
coin

Edit: Hehe, managed to drop 12 words from between.

Divine · Post by **Divine** » Thu Jun 02, 2005 11:03 pm

bill
sill
sell
seal
seat
beat
bean
mean
moan
loan
loon
loin
coin

Divine · Post by **Divine** » Thu Jun 02, 2005 11:06 pm

With all the rehearsal, this turned out to be a quickie....

bill
mill
mall
male
mate
date
dote
note

I'll leave note to Eton for someone else to play with.

Divine · Post by **Divine** » Fri Jun 03, 2005 12:30 pm

Divine wrote:I'll leave note to Eton for someone else to play with.

No answers so far, so here's one:

note
nose
lose
lost
loot
boot
blot
blow
brow
bros
Eros
egos
Egon
Eton