A Puzzle! Answer to follow :-)

[ClareC]

See if you can figure out what these words have in common.

1 Banana

2 Dresser

3 Grammar

4 Potato

5 Revive

6 Uneven

7 Assess

[brum]

Two letters the same in each word?

[computedshorty]

?

[alice]

impressive cs

[anapau]

ok I've got one, what do these words have in common-

almost, biopsy, chintz

[Rolo Tomasi]

no letters are repeated?

[anapau]

that's part of it but there is more

[alice]

letters are in alphabetical order

[ruffers]

Is it mackerel? ;-)

[woofmarkthedog]

OK

What do these have in common

Cunt & wanker

W**F

[ClareC]

computedshorty Wrote:

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> Drop the firet letter then all read the same back

> and front.

>

> 1 anana

> 2 resser

> 3 rammar

> 4 otato

> 5 evive

> 6 neven

> 7 ssess

> (tu)

Your nearly there (and correct)...... the answer is move the first letter to last and the word reads the same backwards as it does forwards. :-)

[OutOfFocus]

Supplementary question. What other words fit this pattern.

GENE

GAMMA

[Huguenot]

Can you have a pattern if there's only two elements?

[Ladymuck]

Huguenot Wrote:

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> Can you have a pattern if there's only two

> elements?

*chuckles*

[Huguenot]

In Finnish, apparently SAIPPUAKUPPINIPPUKAUPPIAS means soap cup trader.

Can any Finn's confirm?

[OutOfFocus]

sorry - I meant additional words matching the original pattern

[computedshorty]

Supplementary question. What other words fit this pattern.

GENE

GAMMA

Gala

Grammar

[Ladymuck]

OutOfFocus Wrote:

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> sorry - I meant additional words matching the

> original pattern

No need to apologise OutofFocus...and, bye the way, I wasn't laughing at you...Huguenot's comment made me laugh purely because it came from Huguenot...I don't think I would have found it funny otherwise

[anapau]

alice Wrote:

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> letters are in alphabetical order

Yes- they are the only 6 lettered words in the english language whose letters occur without repetition in alphabetical order.

[computedshorty]

?

[Lawrence]

Three people are paying the bill, it's ?30, split 3 ways. ?10 each. ?30 Total

After paying, the waiter returns and says he over charged by ?5.

Dave says "Thanks, keep ?2, just give us a pound each"

The waiter pockets the ?2 and gives each diner ?1. Thus they paid ?9 each.

So, ?9 each, 3 x 9 = ?27, the waiter kept ?2 27 + 2 = ?29

Where is the missing pound?

[Mick Mac]

whoops -they paid 27 of which 25 was the bill and 2 went to the waiter. No missing pound.

[boosboss]

computedshorty Wrote:

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> What is the singular for these? In clothing only?

> Braces,

> Briefs,

> Flannels,

> Jeans,

> Knickers,

> Pants,

> Pyjamas,

> Shorts,

> Tights,

> Trousers.

A pair

[boosboss]

Lawrence Wrote:

> So, ?9 each, 3 x 9 = ?27, the waiter kept ?2 27

> + 2 = ?29

>

> Where is the missing pound?

The ?2 tip is deducted from the ?27 paid, not added. ?25 bill plus ?2 tip = ?27

No missing ?

[HAL9000]

Huguenot Wrote:

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> In Finnish, apparently SAIPPUAKUPPINIPPUKAUPPIAS

> means soap cup trader.

>

> Can any Finn's confirm?

According to Google Translate, the palindrome "saippuakuppinippukauppias" means "soap deck merchants" in Finnish, apparently. Yahoo!'s BableFish doesn't do Finnish.