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2007-10-10, 03:24
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Transdniestr
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Prefix/Suffix Animal Pairs
Hello all,
My friends and I bumbled across a puzzle tonight. Name a pair of animals such that if you prepend a letter to one animal's name you get a second animal name*. Do the same by appending a letter (pluralizing doesn't count of course). We found one pair for each. Try to avoid gender-specific animal terms. Maybe there's a bunch of solutions but we only came with those during our brief subway trip. *meaning creatures from the kingdom animalia |
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2007-10-10, 04:04
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"Richard B. Woods"
Aug 2002
Wisconsin USA
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Prefix: ox-fox
There's also ox-lox, but I suppose "lox" applies only to a specific food preparation of the animal involved. ox-pox, if viruses were considered animals Last fiddled with by cheesehead on 2007-10-10 at 04:12 |
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2007-10-10, 09:43
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eagle / beagle ?
Not as good as ox/fox because beagle is a particular breed of dog, but it still seems to meet the stated criteria as a beagle is undoubtedly an animal. |
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2007-10-10, 11:50
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"Tim Sorbera"
Aug 2006
San Antonio, TX USA
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possom/opossum (yes, they're two different animals)
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2007-10-10, 12:19
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id / kid
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2007-10-10, 12:38
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Jan 2005
Transdniestr
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Nice answers, especialy your o-pair Mini-Geek.
We came up with : (w)asp boa(r) Any other possibilities? |
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2007-10-10, 13:13
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Jan 2005
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If other languages are allowed:
In dutch: os/vos (ox/fox) for a prepend ka/kat for an append (a kind of bird/cat) |
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2007-10-10, 13:58
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Jan 2005
Transdniestr
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Sure, I'm curious about solutions in other tongues.
Another prepend: (f)owl - a bit of a stretch Last fiddled with by grandpascorpion on 2007-10-10 at 14:07 |
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2007-10-10, 15:46
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Two more:
rasse / wrasse dog /dogy |
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2007-10-10, 18:26
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Jan 2006
Hungary
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In Dutch:
koe / koet |
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2007-10-10, 20:25
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A couple of fully justifiable ones:
tit / titi nag / naga (Mally would have like that one). Two which strictly meet the conditions, but are just alternative spellings for the same animals in each case: zo / dzo and id / ide. Finally, one which demonstrates some creative cheating: rat / ratel (well, "el" is a letter!) Paul |
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