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Friday, April 09, 2010
Here Lies a Special Word
What word begins with 'h', ends with 'n', contains six letters, and contains eight words besides itself without transposing a single letter?
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HAPPEN? Stretching things a bit here, but it contains:
ReplyDeleteHA
PP (pianissimo in music - a word?)
EN
PEN
APP
APPEN (a Yorkshire phrase, as in "Appen as like as not")
PE
HAP
PPE (if you count acronyms?)
I'm going to guess "herein" except I can only find six words:
ReplyDeletehe
her
here
ere
rein
in
Oh, and of course the word "I" is in there, too. And maybe "re" is a word?
ReplyDeleteYou're right, it has to be HEREIN:
ReplyDeletehe
her
here
ere
rein
in
I
re
Herein is the special word. The eight words were spelled out by anonymous and tabitha:
ReplyDeletehe
her
here
ere
re
rein
I
in
But, just let me say, anytime you can throw in a Yorkshire phrase, you've got my vote!