# Keep a Word, Delete a Word **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [May 1, 2015, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keep-a-word-delete-a-word/719013 "2015-05-01T15:39:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 698
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2017, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keep-a-word-delete-a-word/719013/13944 "2017-02-24T22:27:03Z")
time travel ---
**Author:** ![CatandMouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c89c15/32.png) [@CatandMouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CatandMouse)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2017, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keep-a-word-delete-a-word/719013/13945 "2017-02-24T22:35:07Z")
travel agency ---
**Author:** ![PigArcher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bcef8e/32.png) [@PigArcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PigArcher)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2017, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keep-a-word-delete-a-word/719013/13946 "2017-02-24T22:48:53Z")
denied agency ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2017, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keep-a-word-delete-a-word/719013/13947 "2017-02-24T23:39:58Z")
denied appeal ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2017, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keep-a-word-delete-a-word/719013/13948 "2017-02-25T00:18:31Z")
sex appeal ---
**Author:** ![Blue\_Blistering\_Barnacle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blue_blistering_barnacle/32/3386_2.png) [@Blue\_Blistering\_Barnacle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blue_Blistering_Barnacle)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2017, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keep-a-word-delete-a-word/719013/13949 "2017-02-25T00:52:54Z")
sex change ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2017, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keep-a-word-delete-a-word/719013/13950 "2017-02-25T01:14:04Z")
climate change ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2017, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keep-a-word-delete-a-word/719013/13951 "2017-02-25T01:31:11Z")
spare change ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stainless_steel_rat/32/5727_2.png) [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2017, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keep-a-word-delete-a-word/719013/13952 "2017-02-25T02:01:09Z")
spare tire ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2017, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keep-a-word-delete-a-word/719013/13953 "2017-02-25T02:35:41Z")
tire chains ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2017, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keep-a-word-delete-a-word/719013/13954 "2017-02-25T03:12:17Z")
chain lightning ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2017, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keep-a-word-delete-a-word/719013/13955 "2017-02-25T03:48:03Z")
Lightning McQueen ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2017, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keep-a-word-delete-a-word/719013/13956 "2017-02-25T04:11:14Z")
Steve McQueen ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2017, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keep-a-word-delete-a-word/719013/13957 "2017-02-25T05:31:11Z")
Butterfly McQueen ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2017, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keep-a-word-delete-a-word/719013/13958 "2017-02-25T06:27:31Z")
monarch butterfly ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2017, 10:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keep-a-word-delete-a-word/719013/13959 "2017-02-25T10:40:23Z")
swallowtail butterfly ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stainless_steel_rat/32/5727_2.png) [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2017, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keep-a-word-delete-a-word/719013/13960 "2017-02-25T14:46:08Z")
swallow-tail Kite > **[Swallow-tailed kite](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swallow-tailed_kite)** > > Elanus forficatus (Linnaeus, 1758) > Falco forficatus Linnaeus, 1758 > Falco furcatus Linnaeus, 1766 > Elanoides yetapa Vieillot, 1818 (now a subspecies) > Nauclerus furcatus Vigors, 1825 > Milvus furcatus (Linnaeus, 1766) > The swallow-tailed kite (Elanoides forficatus) is a pernine raptor which breeds from the southeastern United States to eastern Peru and northern Argentina. It is the only species in the genus Elanoides. Most North and Central American breeders winter in South America where the species... ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2017, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keep-a-word-delete-a-word/719013/13961 "2017-02-25T15:21:19Z")
zebra swallowtail ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2017, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keep-a-word-delete-a-word/719013/13962 "2017-02-25T15:42:09Z")
zebra stripes ---
**Author:** ![Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b487fb/32.png) [@Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walken_After_Midnight)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2017, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keep-a-word-delete-a-word/719013/13963 "2017-02-25T17:56:33Z")
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