Have you given any thought as to how Tiger Woods' “transgression”of December 2009 morphed into a “sin” by January 2010?
In Dmitri Borgmann’s Language on Vacation written in 1965, he claims that Australian aborigines practiced a deleted wordplay form that they called “kangaroos” or “marsupials,” because it involved finding smaller words within larger words in the way a kangaroo would carry her infant in her pouch. Because finding hidden words in this manner is not that difficult to accomplish, Borgmann made the process harder by creating the following rules. The two words must be “etymologically unrelated, exact or almost exact synonyms of each other, and so spelled that the letters of the shorter word are scattered through the longer word, not bunched together.” “Story” would not qualify as a “kangaroo” word of history because all its five letters are adjacent. All this might explain why Tiger Woods first said he had committed a “transgression” and afterwards said that he had committed a “sin,” because “sin” is a kangaroo word of “transgression.” Go figure.
Here are some examples of Borgmann's kangaroo words: “Perambulate” from which we extract “ramble,” and “amble” and “chocolate” which yields “hot” and “cocoa.” Richard Lederer, in an article in the magazine Word Ways expanded Borgmann’s list and found fizzing in Budweiser, “beer.” Lederer provides us with several kangaroo twins in this passage: “Open up a “container” and you get a “can” and a “tin.” “When you have “feasted,” you “ate” and have “fed.” A “routine” is both “rote” and a “rut.” Brooding inside “loneliness” are “loss” and “oneness.”
Lederer points out that this process can be reversed. Therefore two or more words can give birth to the same kangaroo word. “Lighted” and “illuminated” both yield “lit”; both “postured” and “positioned” yield “posed”; and “irritated” and “infuriated” both produce ”irate.” Lederer informs us that the champion “marsupial mothers” are the words “lies” and “dead” “Lies” are found in “falsities,” “falsifies,” “fallacies,” “calumnies,” “plagiarizes,” “hyperbolizes” and “reclines.” “Dead” sleeps in “deceased,” “departed,” “deactivated,” “decayed,” “decimated,” “decapitated,” “disintegrated” and “dessicated.”
Lederer allows for kangaroo words to be antonyms as well as synonyms of each other.
Here are some examples of Borgmann's kangaroo words: “Perambulate” from which we extract “ramble,” and “amble” and “chocolate” which yields “hot” and “cocoa.” Richard Lederer, in an article in the magazine Word Ways expanded Borgmann’s list and found fizzing in Budweiser, “beer.” Lederer provides us with several kangaroo twins in this passage: “Open up a “container” and you get a “can” and a “tin.” “When you have “feasted,” you “ate” and have “fed.” A “routine” is both “rote” and a “rut.” Brooding inside “loneliness” are “loss” and “oneness.”
Lederer points out that this process can be reversed. Therefore two or more words can give birth to the same kangaroo word. “Lighted” and “illuminated” both yield “lit”; both “postured” and “positioned” yield “posed”; and “irritated” and “infuriated” both produce ”irate.” Lederer informs us that the champion “marsupial mothers” are the words “lies” and “dead” “Lies” are found in “falsities,” “falsifies,” “fallacies,” “calumnies,” “plagiarizes,” “hyperbolizes” and “reclines.” “Dead” sleeps in “deceased,” “departed,” “deactivated,” “decayed,” “decimated,” “decapitated,” “disintegrated” and “dessicated.”
Lederer allows for kangaroo words to be antonyms as well as synonyms of each other.
Therefore “encourage” gives us “enrage” as well as “urge” ; and “feast” gives us “fast” as well as “eat.” Out of “communicative” we get its antonym “mute,” “courteous” yield its opposite “curt” ; and out of “animosity” we get “amity.”
In this puzzle, I won’t trouble you to find opposites but only words that are synonyms for the ones I have provided,. See how many of these kangaroo words can give birth to baby joeys. For example, secreted away in the word “precipitation” is its synonym “rain.”
In this puzzle, I won’t trouble you to find opposites but only words that are synonyms for the ones I have provided,. See how many of these kangaroo words can give birth to baby joeys. For example, secreted away in the word “precipitation” is its synonym “rain.”
KANGAROO WORD PUZZLE
Answer
1)amicable
2)appropriate
3)blossom
4)Brobdingnagian
5)catacomb
6)charge
6)charge
7)connection
8)contaminate
9)deception
10)delinquent
11)destruction
12)deteriorate
13)diminutive
13)diminutive
14)dismal
15)displeasure
16)droughty
17)dwindle
18)encourage
19)eradicated
20)exhiliration
21)expurgated
22)fabrication
22)fabrication
23)fountain
24)fragile
25)gloop
26)imposter
27)indolent
28)inheritor
29)jollity
30)masculine
31)impair
32)municipality
33)notice
34)observe
35)petrochemical
36)piloted
37)playfulness
38)rampage
38)rampage
39)rapscallion
40)regulate
41)salvage
42)sense
43)separated
43)separated
44)slithered
45)strives
46)supervisor
47)turncoat
48)uncommunicative
47)turncoat
48)uncommunicative
49)unification
50)unsightly
Answers to DAMN IDI AMIN PUZZLE of Jan 19th
1)Anais Nin 2)Lillian Gish 3)Barry Gibb 4)Betsy Ross 5)Bill Clinton 6)Bo Diddley 7)Nancy Reagan 8)Deborah Kerr 9)Don Johnson 10)Dalai Lama 11)Donna Karan 12)Dallas Clark 13)Donny Osmond 14)Freddie Mercury 15)Francis Crick 16)Roger Moore 17)George Clooney 18)Mia Hamm 19)Ivan Pavlov 20)Chick Corea 21)Ginger Rogers 22)Lily Tomlin 23)Jennifer Jones 24)Jesse James 25)Jesse Owens 26)Katarina Witt 27)Loretta Swit 28)Mary Travers 29)Margaret Thatcher 30)Mahmoud Ahmadinejad 31)Ansel Adams 32)Robert Burns 33)Pope Pius XII 34)Coco Chanel 35)Pierre Trudeau 36)Anna Paquin 37)Peter Lorre 38)Peter Jennings 39)Peter O’Toole 40)Greg Louganis 41)Prince Philip 42)Ernie Els 43)Barbara Bush 44)Sally Field 45)Scott Turow 46)Sean Penn 47)Steffi Graf 48)Muhammad Ali 49)Yoko Ono 50)Liza Minnelli
please kangaroo words for notice
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