# Wordplay **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 15, 2007, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordplay/430100 "2007-12-15T14:35:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2007, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordplay/430100/1 "2007-12-15T14:35:03Z")
It’s that time again… What is the significance of the following list? Either put your answer in a spoiler box for those who come along later, or add a few more examples. ACHE BATH CARP DUMB EAST FETE GARB HOOP ICKY JOLT KILN LIFE MINX NEXT OUST PULP RUDE SLAY TOUT UMPS VILE WORK YANK ZING ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2007, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordplay/430100/2 "2007-12-15T15:27:31Z")
They each start with successive letters of the alphabet? ---
**Author:** ![Alice\_The\_Goon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2007, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordplay/430100/3 "2007-12-15T17:26:18Z")
You can take out the third letter and make another word ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2007, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordplay/430100/4 "2007-12-15T18:12:38Z")
And **Alice** nails it. Three hours! Yay! I should post these on Saturday mornings more often! ---
**Author:** ![Alice\_The\_Goon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2007, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordplay/430100/5 "2007-12-15T18:15:13Z")
You got to get up _pretty early in the morning_ to fool me… or I just always wanted to say that. You gotta make these harder, **twicks** - I coulda done that even without coffee, but fortunately I didn’t have to. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2007, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordplay/430100/6 "2007-12-15T18:23:38Z")
They’re not intended to be all that hard – I’ll just randomly think of a bit of word manipulation (that one started with “WORK”), fill it out to a list, and post it here – because this is MPSIMS, and what else can I do with something that M&P but S it? ---
**Author:** ![armedmonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@armedmonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/armedmonkey)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2007, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordplay/430100/7 "2007-12-15T19:01:20Z")
I will give you “Bah”, but is “Ums” a word? I think I would have gone with “undo”. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2007, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordplay/430100/8 "2007-12-15T19:21:06Z")
[QUOTE=A Monkey With a Gun] I will give you “Bah”, but is “Ums” a word? I think I would have gone with “undo”. [/QUOTE] I’m a stickler on no proper names and no foreign words on these, which made “u” tricky – and Q and X impossible.