Alphabetic pairs of letters within words:
AA = Aardvark
AB = Table
AC = Miracle
AD = ?
At some point, this may require a whimsical compound word, but try to use one in a dictionary if possible.
AD = Adamantine
AE = paean
AF = cafeteria
AG=wag
AH = quahog
AI = aisle
AJ=major
I always feel like proper nouns shouldn’t count for things like this; it’s a pernicious side effect of playing Scrabble. For AH, may I suggest “seahorse”.
AK = teak
AL = teal
AM = team
Quahog is a common name for the hard clam (e.g., you can eat or cook a quahog). Also, I think we are to play one letter pair each. I think jtur88 had three plays as examples.
AN: implant
AO = chaos
Whether or not proper nouns should be allowed is up to jtur88, since he/she started this thread.
AP: crap
Agree, but quahog is not a proper noun.
AQ - plaque
Only if no other suitable word seems to exist. General priority would be
Common words in dictionary
Feasible compound words
Frivolous compound words
Proper nouns as names or places with a Wiki entry
Some other imaginative way of wiggling off the hook when we get to QX
Yeah, but when I came up with three consecutive words that only differed by the key letter, I couldn’t resist.
AR = carpet
AS = miasma
AT - battle
AU - laugh