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From yesterdays stumper I believe number puzzles might be how to get revenge!! So lets try this one: AABEIILNST, there are two words that use these letters in English, 10 each and they are______________&__________________? This might be a rough one, these words are real common.

-- mitch hearn (moopups@citlink.net), November 14, 2001

Answers

I got one of the words and a request. When you do this type of puzzle again, would you put a space between the letters for those of us who have trouble reading all caps/ bifocals and dyslexia make it hard to distinguish the letters. Thanks Don't mean to whine

-- Cindy (S.E.IN) (atilrthehony@countrylife.net), November 14, 2001.

Proof reading, The last line should state that the words are NOT real common.

-- mitch hearn (moopups@citlink.net), November 14, 2001.

insatiable-never satisfied. We have an insatiable hunger for more puzzles.

-- Cindy (S.E.IN) (atilrthehony@countrylife.net), November 14, 2001.

I am numb from thinking last night, and i hadn't even thought of that possibility for the numbers. Silly me. I WAS TRYING TO HARD. Looks like i need some R&R for some more of these. They are moocho fun.

-- jillian (sweetunes483@yahoo.com), November 14, 2001.

Yes Cindy, now what is the other one?

-- mitch hearn (moopups@citlink.net), November 14, 2001.


How 'bout a hint:~} just a little one?

-- Cindy (S.E.IN) (atilrthehony@countrylife.net), November 14, 2001.

Do you want a big easy one or a bounch of useless little ones?~

-- mitch hearn (moopups@citlink.net), November 14, 2001.

one small useful one will be a strart Please.

-- Cindy (S.E.IN) (atilrthehony@countrylife.net), November 14, 2001.

O.K., Second hint; of all the tv. actors that would most likely use this word it would the charcter of Charles Emerson Winchester on Mash 4077 and the letters "A" and "I" are seperated by one other letter through the word. This word is on page 111 of my college dictionary.~~~

-- mitch hearn (moopups@citlink.net), November 14, 2001.

Mitch, I wish I had your dictionary! I am currently wading through the "i" words on page 957 of our 2-volume websters.

-- Cathy N. (keeper8@attcanada.ca), November 14, 2001.


What page is it on in Webster's New World Dictionary, Third College Edition? that I just unpacked in the attic. I love anagrams, I usually do extrememly well with them, oh well. Gotta get back to life

-- Cindy (S.E.IN) (atilrthehony@countrylife.net), November 14, 2001.

I have a F & W college standard; the word could describe these stumpers, to highly educated people, stop looking in the I's, the word does have a suffix. I will freely bet you have never used this word, you might have heard it in college when two stuffy professors were trying to impress each other.~~~~

-- mitch hearn (moopups@citlink.net), November 14, 2001.

O.K. The first letter is "B", the last letter is "S", the word means: small, useless things, over worked to a point of stupidity, kinda like Miss Cleo on the tv.......I am going to bed for tomorrow is a veterans medical center day, a 70 mile trip and I must be up earily. Are all the bright people going to chime in now??

-- mitch hearn (moopups@citlink.net), November 14, 2001.

Banalities...perhaps your mistake in the original post was a Freudian one...since banalities are those occurences so common as to be trite.

The word is on page 107 of my college dictionary; I did figure it out before I started to look just out of curiosity.

-- Debbie in S IL (dc1253@hcis.net), November 14, 2001.


Debbie has the answer correct and has displayed two step thinking in her referance to the planted error in the original post. If you readers get a chance, read "Illusions" by Richard Bach. It is a fiction novel with some easy to understand life lessons, the author displays three step thinking.

-- mitch hearn (moopups@citlink.net), November 15, 2001.


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