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Wordplay Wednesday 2008-10-22
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Ken Jennings wrote:
But “Cigarettes and Coffee” is not the only Otis Redding hit whose last six letters spell a delicious hot drink. Can you name another?


Another beverage you're not supposed to be familiar with, Ken: "I've Been Loving You Too Long"

Ken Jennings wrote:
Anyway, can you think of a common word in American English that uses both an “oe” and an “ae” combination? There are two that are fairly common–and one isn’t a plural noun.


I'll admit that I grepped /usr/share/dict/words to find these. I'm not going to post the non-plural one, not without a court order.

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Finally, Ken posts a wordplay late enough for me to be awake and I still get beat out.

Anyway, I might as well make #2 explicit. The two words are amoebae and subpoenaed.

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Oddly enough, /usr/share/dict/words has unsubpoenaed but not subpoenaed.

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