Sillily

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Unlike all the other sections, this one does consist almost entirely of my own ideas, along with ones from Pannenkoek, which are the ones in black.

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Word Connections

honest & earnest

steady & sturdy

felons & villains

metals & medals

eagles & seagulls

pet & pat

very & really

cuddle & snuggle

enemies & nemeses

example & sample

dominant & prominent

frenetic & frantic

larceny & arson

scarce & sparse

aberrant & abhorrent

putrefy & petrify

seething & scathing

banish & vanish

aspen & alpine

graduations & congratulations

oxymoron & paradox

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eloquent:  elegantly spoken

adapt:  to adopt better behaviors

adept:  well adapted

scold:  to scald with words

stamp:  to stomp with ink

paddle:  to pedal with an oar

wonder:  to wander through thought

embers:  amber ashes

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taunt & flaunt & tout & flout

muttering & mumbling & stuttering & stumbling

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wistful & listless

valueless & invaluable

womb & tomb

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Syllable Reversal Pairs

potty / teapot
leaking / kingly
churner / nurture
saucy / seesaw
insert / certain
lady / delay
racy / erase
story / restore
setup / upset
holdup / uphold
keeper / perky
keeping / pinky
rosy / zero
pursue / super
touchy / cheetah
torment / mentor
welfare / farewell

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Double Letter Words

aardvark
rabbit
accept
cuddle
sleep
muffin
snuggle
withhold
skiing
∅
trekked
pillow
tummy
bunny
book
puppy
∅
starry
dessert
pattern
continuum
savvy
glowworm
∅
∅
jazz

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Redundant Consonants (my magnum opus of first grade)

• “c”__→__k or s
• “q”__→__k + w
• “x”__→__(k + s) or z

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In English class, we were taught that there are four kinds of sentences:

However, I always thought there should’ve been six kinds:

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notable heteronyms:  bow,  wind,  tear,  bass,  lead,  dove,  wound,  putting

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What’s a word that you can add a letter to the end of to create a new word with fewer syllables?

What’s a word that, when made plural, gains (only) an ‘s’ somewhere other than the end?

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new adverbs:  sillily, okayly

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Interesting Consonants

The only other true glottal stop (ʔ) words I know of are ‘uh-uh’ (the opposite of ‘uh-huh’), ‘mnh-mnh’ (alternatively spelled ‘mm-mm’, the opposite of ‘mm-hmm’), and ‘nuh-uh‘.

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Beautiful Words and Concepts

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