QOD #9 — Solution

Solution

Just to stretch those verbal lobes,

1) What two words in the English language satisfy the following conditions:
     a) Both end in -REAS
     b) Neither is plural
     c) Neither is a proper noun
     d) Both are common

     pancreas and whereas

2) What seven-letter word in the English language fits this description:
     a) the first letter is a vowel
     b) the fourth letter is the same vowel
     c) the seventh letter is the same vowel
     d) the second letter is a consonant
     e) the fifth letter is the same consonant
     f) the third letter is a different consonant
     g) the sixth letter is the same consonant as the third letter

          Or more succinctly: V C1 C2 V C1 C2 V

          Alfalfa (And entente in French)

3) What common phrase does the following sequence represent?

          awCdhADkcQKqvoVnNobRsrSpuxUBX

                              "No big whoop"

                    (there is no capital WHOOP)

Comments

Of course, it seems as if everyone thought of pancreas, and no one thought of whereas
I believe Mary Ellen was the verbal-lobe stretcher...

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