Need some more "transponyms"

Henry Mullish hqm2011 at NYU.EDU
Wed Dec 10 15:01:51 UTC 2003


In the following list of what I hace called "transponyms", the transpositions can occur anywhere in the word, so long as the
letters are adjacent to each other.The list currently contains
155 pairs of words:

able bale; acne cane; acre care; act cat; add dad;
aft fat; ale lea; alter later; am ma; amid maid;
amp map; angel angle; any nay; apes apse; apt pat;
arid raid; arise raise; arm ram; art rat; asp sap;
awn wan; awning warning; awry wary; axel axle; bar bra;
bard brad; barn bran; bat tab; beast beats; best bets;
beat beta; blot bolt; boast boats; boost boots; brunt burnt;
bust buts; calm clam; carp crap; carve crave; cast cats;
casual causal; claps clasp; clod cold; clot colt; coast coats;
code coed; compiled complied; corps crops; cost cots; crud curd;
cups cusp; dairy diary; dart drat; dies ides; discreet discrete;
doe ode; does dose; does odes; door odor; ear era;
east eats; elan lean; ever veer; evil veil; exist exits;
farmer framer; fast fats; feast feats; field filed; filers fliers;
files flies; fired fried; fist fits; form from; forth froth;
gaol goal; gaps gasp; garb grab; gas sag; gird grid;
gore ogre; grist grits; gnu gun; gust guts; hoes hose;
infarction infraction; jest jets; just juts; lair liar; lest lets;
lair liar; lion loin; lips lisp; lore role; lost lots;
mantel mantle; marital martial; mast mats; mien mine; mist mits;
most mots; nest nets; no on; noes nose; nuclear unclear;
ones noes; opt pot; option potion; orb rob; owe woe;
own won; past pats; pate tape; perfect prefect; pest pets;
piles plies; ploy poly; polo pool; post pots; quiet quite;
rasp raps; rat tar; regarding regrading; retired retried; roes rose;
roost roots; rote tone; run urn; rust ruts; sacred scared;
salt slat; salve slave; sap spa; silt slit; silver sliver;
spilt split; steel stele; sue use; tarp trap; tear tera;
there three; tide tied; tier tire; tired tried; tort trot;
tow two; trail trial; used sued; vast vats; vest vets;
warp wrap; west wets; wist wits; worst worts; wrist writs;

I suspect that there are about 200 such pairs of words. So far I have only 155 pairs. Would anyone like to contribute?


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