Hello everyone.
I was studying for a final I have tomorrow, and I ran across six words I wrote in the margin of my notes:
san
doo
kin
poo
bin
han
These six words all have a very specific property in common. There is a very closely related property that all but one of the six words have in common.
Maybe it’s easy; maybe it’s hard. It’s probably stupid and contrived. But I am killing time, and here’s the post. Let me know what you think.
“San” and “han” are words? English words?
You add the sound “dle” in a variant spelling, and you get a common word? (Sandal, doodle, kindle, poodle, bindle, handle? (OK, bindle is not so common, but it’s a real word.
Sigmagirl, I am very impressed. Thanks for playing. You pretty much got it. Your second property isn’t exactly what I had in mind, but it can work, too.
In my defense, my dad seemed to use the word “bindle” a lot when I was growing up. I don’t think you could tell which words were common based in his usage, though.
On the other hand, maybe you did get the second property I was looking for but just didn’t say it explicitly? Either way, thanks for giving it some thought.
It’s a broad definition of “words.”
Eh, I knew what that word means. A bindle is a sack made out of a handkerchief tied at the corners, and often tied to the end of a stick, for carrying meager belongings (as seen in old cartoons about hobos). The stick it’s tied to is a bindlestick, and the fellow who carries it is a bindlestiff.