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Offline CG6468

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What's special about these words?
« on: February 03, 2012, 04:53:45 PM »
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Re: What's special about these words?
« Reply #1 on: February 03, 2012, 05:18:13 PM »
All but the last one have a set of duplicate identical vowels and consonants,.....the last one has two sets of identical consonants????

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Re: What's special about these words?
« Reply #2 on: February 03, 2012, 05:25:51 PM »
The first six have reverse pairing of a consonant and a vowel.  The last one has two consonants, but if I say they simple have reverse pairing of letters, it works.

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Re: What's special about these words?
« Reply #3 on: February 03, 2012, 06:07:49 PM »
I think I got it. 

If you take the first letter of each word, remove it and add it to the end of the word, each word is spelled the same forwards and backwards.
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Re: What's special about these words?
« Reply #4 on: February 03, 2012, 06:20:21 PM »
Quote from: Reality vs DU on February 03, 2012, 06:07:49 PM
I think I got it. 

If you take the first letter of each word, remove it and add it to the end of the word, each word is spelled the same forwards and backwards.

I bet that's it!  Good job.
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Re: What's special about these words?
« Reply #5 on: February 03, 2012, 06:48:31 PM »
BINGO!

Reality vs DU got it!  :yahoo:  :cheersmate:  :-)
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Re: What's special about these words?
« Reply #6 on: February 03, 2012, 07:01:02 PM »
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Re: What's special about these words?
« Reply #7 on: February 03, 2012, 08:05:44 PM »
Quote from: JohnnyReb on February 03, 2012, 07:01:02 PM
palendrones

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Re: What's special about these words?
« Reply #8 on: February 03, 2012, 08:12:51 PM »
Quote from: JohnnyReb on February 03, 2012, 07:01:02 PM
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