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Posted by ToolkiT on 05-24-2001 01:19 AM:

Think of a familiar 3-letter word that has two syllables. Add five letters
to it to get a common 8-letter word that only has one syllable. What word is
it? Hint: All the letters that are added go at the front or at the end.

I don't know the answer myself either...I wonder if it can be solved at all...

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Posted by miradu on 05-24-2001 03:41 AM:

Your crazy

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Posted by ToolkiT on 05-24-2001 04:03 AM:

quote:
Originally posted by miradu2000
Your crazy

what about my crazy

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Posted by Cerulean on 05-25-2001 03:11 PM:

i was thinking about 3 letter words and came up with "ion" .. now just to find 5 additional letters to slap in front of it ..

joe

ps -- someone told me that this CAN be solved..

Posted by homer on 05-25-2001 04:10 PM:

This could be some sort of distributed brain network...if we all work at this, we should be able to solve it!

some 3 letter, 2-syllable words:

via
boa
ado

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Posted by K. Cannon on 05-25-2001 05:27 PM:

Hey y'all!

quote:
Originally posted by ToolkiT
Think of a familiar 3-letter word that has two syllables.

Here in South Carolina, every 3 letter word has two syllables...

Posted by Sideway on 05-25-2001 07:17 PM:

Anybody can think of a 8-letter word with only one syllable?

Posted by K. Cannon on 05-25-2001 07:39 PM:

quote:
Originally posted by Sideway
Anybody can think of a 8-letter word with only one syllable?

strength?

Posted by Toby on 05-25-2001 07:55 PM:

quote:
Originally posted by Sideway
Anybody can think of a 8-letter word with only one syllable?

'straight'
'streaked'

Posted by Yorick on 05-25-2001 08:17 PM:

quote:
Originally posted by Sideway
Anybody can think of a 8-letter word with only one syllable?

'stressed'
'streamed'
'stringed'

anyone see a trend?

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Posted by Yorick on 05-25-2001 08:59 PM:

smoothed, clutched, breathed ?, trounced, flounced, cleansed, glimpsed, clinched, sheathed, squeezed,

everything I think of ends in "ed."
Now I'm thinking of a few choice four-letter, one-syllable words for this puzzle ...

there's 'schmaltz' and 'schnapps' but with all those consonants they don't fit the other criteria.
straight?
Does it have to be an English word?

I've been dwelling on this riddle for too long today.
I have to go do something else.

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Posted by homer on 05-25-2001 10:22 PM:

'syllable' is an eight letter word with one 'syllable'

trick question?

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Posted by miradu on 05-25-2001 11:20 PM:

No it doesn't! syll-a-ble.. oh wait.. you mean.. but ble isn't a word as I last checked.. THIS IS CONFUSING!

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Posted by narnia_77 on 05-26-2001 08:30 AM:

quote:
Originally posted by homer
'syllable' is an eight letter word with one 'syllable'
trick question?

That's cute. I like it, but where would the "familiar 3-letter word that has two syllables" be? Because "All the letters that are added go at the front or at the end." *Sigh* I was hoping for an answer on this... I hate puzzles that I can't solve within a day - gives me headaches.

Posted by MarkEagle on 05-26-2001 01:49 PM:

quote:
Originally posted by ToolkiT
I don't know the answer myself either...I wonder if it can be solved at all...

hmmm... if ToolKit doesn't know the answer and everyone else is making best guesses, how will anyone know if we solve it and come up with the correct answer?

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Posted by dick-richardson on 05-26-2001 04:43 PM:

quote:
Originally posted by MarkEagle

hmmm... if ToolKit doesn't know the answer and everyone else is making best guesses, how will anyone know if we solve it and come up with the correct answer?

The first one that fits the criteria is correct. Period. We're working to solve the question, not read the questioners mind.

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Posted by K. Cannon on 05-26-2001 04:49 PM:

My bad

quote:
Originally posted by narnia_77
That's cute. I like it, but where would the "familiar 3-letter word that has two syllables" be? Because "All the letters that are added go at the front or at the end." *Sigh* I was hoping for an answer on this... I hate puzzles that I can't solve within a day - gives me headaches.

Sorry...I kinda side-tracked us by responding only to Sideway's question, not the original puzzle...

Posted by Yorick on 05-26-2001 10:10 PM:

It seems as though any three-letter word with two syllables would have to have two vowel sounds in it?
Can anyone confirm or deny?

I agree with narnia_77 about puzzles ...

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Posted by homer on 06-04-2001 02:36 AM:

They just had this puzzle on NPR today...but I only caught part of the answer. The 3 letter word is 'ole'

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Posted by Soul Raven on 06-04-2001 03:10 PM:

Here are all the eight letter words with "ole" at the beginning or end, from the Merriam-Webster online dictionary (didn't see any one syllable ones, but I am a programmer, not an linguist. When I worry about syntax, it has to do with FOR..NEXT loops and where all my semi-colons are):

code:
oleander
oleaster
olefinic
amitrole
beanpole
blowhole
borehole
braciole
bunghole
cabriole
camisole
capriole
caracole
clodpole
coalhole
coalhole
diastole
escarole
flagpole
fumarole
girasole
hellhole
kneehole
knothole
loophole
monopole
ovariole
peephole
pesthole
picomole
porthole
posthole
seminole
sinkhole
slipsole
thiazole
turnsole
wormhole

I don't know what worries me most: that the word doesn't seem to be here, or that "bunghole" is in the dictionary...

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