• Vocabularies: hypocoristic, recondite, mnemonic, optotype

• Sporting vernacular: ten-pin bowling, Tiddleewinks, marbles, Frisbee trajectories

• Derivations: French leave, sincere, under the aegis of, greengage

• A Mixed Bag: Mickey Mouse, angry/hungry, James I “A Counterblaste to Tobacco”, heights

• Americanisms: bobby pin, thumbtack, snap fastener, tic-tac-toe

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• Vocabularies: hepatic, crassitude, pantechnion, bugaboo

• Derivations: it’s all my eye and Betty Martin, preposterous, dandelion, curfew

• Familiar Shakespeare: to the manor born, the be all and the end all, it beggared all description, wear my heart upon my sleeve

• Words used in their homes: macinsop, horserubbish, bed-raggled, taking one of nature’s cuts, God’s champagne, misled, fiduffa

• Words changing when plural: spectacle(s), marble(s), pant(s), bellow(s)

• Here today gone tomorrow / There’s a sucker born every minute

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• Vocabularies: pollical, nugatory, cordwainer, oojiboo

• Kisses: Mademoiselle from Armetiers, Kipling, Kiss me Hardy, Clementine

• Who or What were They: winged seeds, daffodils, bread biscuits sweets and joints, bees

• Double barreled words: shilly shally, willy nilly, hurly burly, fuddy duddy

• A change is as good as a rest / Do not count your chickens until they are hatched

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• Vocabularies: febrifuge, jeremiad, cumshaw, titubation
• Assortment of sundries: Annie Oakley, separating authors
  by marital status, all the letters, cockledoo
• Who is she? Silly old lady of Chertsey, the Beggar Maid, Matilda,
  La Belle Dame sans Merci
• Double definitions: habit, familiar, dummy, shingle
• Alice in Wonderland / A stitch in time saves time

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• Vocabularies: symposium, salmagundy, sententious, nosology

• Something in Common: translated phrases, ghosts, shipwrecked, Inspectors in Sherlock Holmes

• Verbal imports: kowtow, paradise, wigwam, tycoon

• Of shoes and ships and sealing wax… / You and the night and the music

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• Vocabularies: caprification, flocculent, trogolodyte, flockizenihipilification
  

• Victoriana: a preacher or speaker, a sovereign, an inebriate, hairdos

• Verbal transplants: vasistas, ich niedviet=nitwit, kickshaw, voksal=Vauxhall

• Americana: realtor=estate agent, transom=fanlight, vest=waistcoat, casket=coffin

• Down among the Sheltering Palms / Off We Go into the Wild Blue Yonder

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• limbo, incubus, asphodel, nubile
• Something in Common: Macaulay, all died in their 30's, all
  based on dreams, dark lady of the sonnets
  
• Mnemonics: digits of pi, ranks of nobility, rainbow, musical
  staves
  
• Homophones: style/stile - gait/gate, knit/nit, breach/breech,
  symbol/cymbal
  
• Mixed bag: why do walk the fields in gloves, 12+1-2=11,
  Kipling, died in 1680
  
• Mandatory monosyllables: view from bathroom window, first childhood memory, should Boy George get the OBE, your
  bank manager
  

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• Vocabularies: foist, precocious, burke, dastardly
• Questionable refreshments: illusory food, gashing, lukewarm
  water, watery bier
  
• Poetical gobbledygook: To be or not to be, The woman who lived in a shoe, If winter comes, can spring be far behind?, Can storied urn, or animated bust, back to its mansion call the
  fleeting breath?
  
• Poetical pairings: "No hungry generations tread thee down" (Keats, Ode to a Nightingale), "Beauty's ensign is yet crimson in thy lips" (Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet), "Thou from whose unseen presence the leaves dead are driven" (Shelley, Ode to the West Wind), "And faith unfaithful kept him falsely true"
  (Tennyson, Idylls of the King)
  
• Technical terms: Irish hurricane, to terminate with extreme
  prejudice, plush family, to open the kimono
  
• Reduplicated words: nitty-gritty, hokey-pokey, hurdy-gurdy,
  itsy-bitsy
  

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• Vocabularies: malapert, mansuetude, mordant, unction
• ...
• A thing of beauty is a joy forever / Can I get there by candlelight?

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• Vocabularies: gizzard, samite, lurid, luscious

• Bread and Butter: bread the staff of life, the Reverend Mr Collins, Jael and Heber the Canaanite, the waiter roars it through the hall

• Differences: jocose/jocular, impromptu/ex tempore, fable/parable, complacent/complaisant

• Tales from the Vienna Woods / By the time I get to Phoenix

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• Vocabularies: pettifog, longeur, pinchbeck, shebang
• ...
• I've got the sun in the morning... / I'm reviewing the situation

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• Garland of flowers: talking flowers, Spencer’s Prothalamion, camellia, Surtees’ Jorrocks

• Distinctions: instinct/intuition, meticulous/pernickety, delusion/illusion, sensual/sensuous

• How to start writing each day

• Double definitions: manifest, settle, riddle, sensation

• I wonder who’s kissing her now / It’s a long lane that has no turning

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• Great Fire of London, ...

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• Literary Noses: The Dong, nosey Parker, Cleopatra's nose, Darwin's nose
• Origins and Derivations: to get one's goat, canter, bean feast, a sundae
• Titles: The Romance of Soil, Hindustani Self-Taught, I'm a Middle Aged Werewolf, Never Allow a Sailor an Inch above the Knee
• Badgettisms: Queen Anne, Dean Swift, Palmerston, George III
• Doctor Jekyll and Mister Hyde / Friends Romans and countrymen

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• Vocabularies: hypocoristic, recondite, mnemonic, optotype

• Sporting vernacular: ten-pin bowling. Tiddleewinks, marbles, Frisbee trajectories

• Derivations: French leave, sincere, under the aegis of, greengage

• A Mixed Bag: Mickey Mouse, angry/hungry, James I “A Counterblaste to Tobacco”, heights

• Americanisms: bobby pin, thumbtack, snap fastener, tic-tac-toe

• The boy I love is up in the gallery / It only happens when I dance with you

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• Vocabularies: obloquy, andiron, cenotaph, farrago

• Names into Words: 4^th Earl of Sandwich

• Poetry into Clichés: Tennyson, Cowper, Kipling, Shakespeare

• Thespian Terminology: Aunt Edna, to pong, George Spelvin/ Walter Plinge, yatata yatata

• Double Definitions: cope, murder, pontoon, bustle

• 1984 / I’m Putting All My Eggs in One Basket

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• Vocabularies: jejune, simony, persiflage, scrannel

• Second lines: Let dogs delight, Let joy be unconfined, Say not the struggle naught availeth, Variety’s the very spice of life

• Malicious Criticism: Shaw/Cymbeline, Keats, Mark Twain/Scott, Lady Chatterly’s Lover

• Coined words: pandemonium, centrifugal, blatant, assassination

• Rule Britannia / Come into the garden Maude

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• Vocabularies: fizgig, tomalley, aspirgillum, bdellism

• Something in common: puns, all Thackeray, successive wives of Milton, names for things with forgotten names

• Next lines: the pen is mightier than the sword, a sadder and wiser man, in the spring a young man’s fancy turns to thoughts of love, gone with the wind

• Uncompleted clichés: fact, something that’s obvious, situations, catastrophe

• I want to say thanks for that lovely weekend / Hitch your wagon to a star

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• Vocabularies: lallation, filemot, lustrum, quidnunc

• Places in Common: typographical symbols, clock hand styles, shapes of gravestones, parts of the face

• Colorful Poetry: gray-green Limpopo, blue hills of Shropshire, gray beard of Ancient Mariner, purple cow

• Homophones: berth/birth, gnaw/nor, beret/berry, slight/sleight

• Six of one, half a dozen of the other / Everybody loves somebody sometime

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• Vocabularies: epicurean, friable, harbinger, turnsick

• Mixed bag: brassiere, anagram, inventor of cribbage, fish - ghoti

• Things in common: written in gaol, toadstools, all Shakespearean quotations, John Bainborough

• Monosyllables: 007, Oliver Cromwell’s warts, how to fry an egg, first on becoming PM

• The heart of the matter / The flight of the bumblebee

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• Vocabularies: amanuensis, banshee, afflatus, estivate

• Shakespearean Klangers: Roman clock striking, Cleopatra’s billiards, King John’s cannon, ship in desert of Bohemia

• Numbers: a thousand, 24, 15, 41

• Double Definitions: distemper, spruce, churchwarden, bootless

• Close Encounters of the Third Kind / Who Was that Lady I Saw You with Last Night?

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• Vocabularies: gubernatorial, magniloquent, Cimmerian, mezzanine

• Literary drinks: Samson-samson, Socrates, Proverbs, Thurber on wine

• Answers: ignorance madam, at Stonehenge/on murdering Alec, a little more than kith, four larks two owls…

• Words for foreigners: entrance, dessert/desert, contract, incense

• Somewhere over the rainbow / Someday I’ll find you

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• Vocabularies: halcyon, meniscus, goluptuous, spuddle

• Things in common: victoria, skipping rope games, hounds, warts

• Poetry with Oceanic Overtones: lonely sea, silent sea, silver sea, sunless sea

• Homonyms: marshall/martial, feint/faint, new/gnu, limb/limn

• The Pirates of Penzance / Do-re-mi-fa-so-la-ti

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• Vocabularies: hepatic, crassitude, pantechnion, bugaboo

• Derivations: it’s all my eye and Betty Martin, preposterous, dandelion, curfew

• Familiar Shakespeare: to the manor born, the be all and the end all, it beggared all description, wear my heart upon my sleeve

• Words used in their homes: macinsop, horserubbish, bed-raggled, taking one of nature’s cuts, God’s champagne, misled, fiduffa

• Words changing when plural: spectacle(s), marble(s), pant(s), bellow(s)

• Here today gone tomorrow / There’s a sucker born every minute

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• Vocabularies: pollical, nugatory, cordwainer, oojiboo

• Kisses: Mademoiselle from Armetiers, Kipling, Kiss me Hardy, Clementine

• Who or What were They: winged seeds, daffodils, bread biscuits sweets and joints, bees

• Double barreled words: shilly shally, willy nilly, hurly burly, fuddy duddy

• A change is as good as a rest / Do not count your chickens until they are hatched

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• Vocabularies: sesquipedalian, catacumen, fanfaronade, cinerary

• Something in Common: curtailed words, all lifted from French, grasses, signs of the Zodiac

• Unique Utterances: you can fool some of the people, Armstrong’s landing speech, never was so much …, I came I saw …

• Onward Christian soldiers / Red sails in the sunset

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• Vocabularies: abecedary, spandrel, basilisk, rumblegumption

• Terms in common: Bellringing, romantic novels, computer terms, aviation terms

• Hats: trilby, William Tell, wideawake hat, candlewax

• In Memoriam / All the News Fit to Print

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• Vocabularies: majuscule, ephemeron, concupiscence, invultuation

• Beginning sentences: 1984, Peter Pan, Brighton Rock, Mr. Loveday’s Little Outing

• Missing first lines: was this the face that launched a thousand ships, under the wide and starry sky, tears idle tears, procrastination is the thief of time

• Homonyms: raise/raze, wood/would, metal/mettle, horde/hoard

• Hallelujah! / Maybe It’s Because I’m a Londoner

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• Vocabularies: izzard, postulant, cerebellum, nexus

• Horses: Black Beauty, one horsepower, Caligula’s horse, Richard III

• Inscriptions: by perseverance I conquer, if thy heart fails thee climb not at all, the gates of Hell, out of strength cometh sweetness

• Three word quotations: all our yesterdays, the silent dust, triumph and disaster, a ghostly batsman

• Oh dear what can the matter me / Every little movement has a meaning of its own

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• Vocabularies: caprification, flocculent, trogolodyte, flockizenihipilification

• Victoriana: a preacher or speaker, a sovereign, an inebriate, hairdos

• Verbal transplants: vasistas, ich niedviet=nitwit, kickshaw, voksal=Vauxhall

• Americana: realtor=estate agent, transom=fanlight, vest=waistcoat, casket=coffin

• Down among the Sheltering Palms / Off We Go into the Wild Blue Yonder

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• Vocabularies: fustigation, wraith, hubristic, graphospasm

• Four of a kind: puns, bird cries, merged words, systems

• Newspaper headlines: Raleigh spreads his coat, apple hits Newton, Cnut can’t halt the tide, Washington confesses about cherry tree

• Double-barreled words: harum scarum, helter skelter, wishy washy, heebie jeebies

• It was the best of times, it was the worst of times / Alice through the Looking Glass

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• Vocabularies: tushery, paradigm, quondam, jirble

• Quotations: Goldsmith, Southey, Coleridge, Shakespeare

• Improbable confrontations: Florence Nightingale, Attila the Hun, Guy Fawkes, Signora Lucretia Borgia

• Ancient adjectives: naughty, silly, enthusiastic, prestigious

• Meni meni teko a parsen / Hoist with his own petard

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• Vocabularies: fenestration, gibbous, condign, digraph

• Lucky Dip into a Mixed Bag: I love you, Orare Ben Johnson, cold as a dog’s nose and a maid’s knee, Adam had ‘em

• Near synonyms: flagrant/blatant, turgid/turbid, kith/kin, flout/flaunt

• Double definitions: temper, assault, shy, brook

• The sound of music / This was the noblest Roman of all

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• Vocabularies: symposium, salmagundy, sententious, nosology

• Something in Common: translated phrases, ghosts, shipwrecked, Inspectors in Sherlock Holmes

• Verbal imports: kowtow, paradise, wigwam, tycoon

• Of shoes and ships and sealing wax… / You and the night and the music

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• Vocabularies: gizzard, samite, lurid, luscious

• Bread and Butter: bread the staff of life, the Reverend Mr Collins, Jael and Heber the Canaanite, the waiter roars it through the hall

• Differences: jocose/jocular, impromptu/ex tempore, fable/parable, complacent/complaisant

• Tales from the Vienna Woods / By the time I get to Phoenix

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• Vocabularies: cicatrice, nostrum, hippogriff, palpebrate
• Somethingin Common: pieces of armour, folding napkins, titles in the Bab Ballads, titles phrases from the Bible
• This and That: Abide with Me, Song of the Shirt, On the Contention of Ajax and Achilles, The Destruction of Senacherib
• My word is my bond / An American in Paris

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• Garland of flowers: talking flowers, Spencer’s Prothalamion, camellia, Surtees’ Jorrocks

• Distinctions: instinct/intuition, meticulous/pernickety, delusion/illusion, sensual/sensuous

• How to start writing each day

• Double definitions: manifest, settle, riddle, sensation

• I wonder who’s kissing her now / It’s a long lane that has no turning

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• Literary Noses: The Dong, nosey Parker, Cleopatra's nose, Darwin's nose
• Origins and Derivations: to get one's goat, canter, bean feast, a sundae
• Titles: The Romance of Soil, Hindustani Self-Taught, I'm a Middle Aged Werewolf, Never Allow a Sailor an Inch above the Knee
• Badgettisms: Queen Anne, Dean Swift, Palmerston, George III
• Doctor Jekyll and Mister Hyde / Friends Romans and countrymen

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• A Packet of Allsorts: Islands of Langerhans, palindrome, Harry S Truman, quite excellent/quite good
• Nuances: authentic/genuine, revenge/vengeance, convince / persuade, further/farther
• Eyewitness accounts: Vesuvius, Destruction of the Cities of the Plain, Parting of the Red Sea, Livingstone and Stanley, opening night of Private Lives
• Trinomials: lock stock and barrel, bell book and candle, tall dark and handsome, cool calm and collected
• There’s no business like show business / If they asked me I could write a book
  

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• Bibliophily: book bindings, bookworms, in black books, blank books
  
• Male Chauvinist Thought: John Knox, Doctor Johnson, Walter Scott, Chesterfield
  
• Summerville and Ross Invented Dictionary: doldrumiser, grawbey, sheba, absquatulate
  
• Hyphenated Threesomes: happy-go-lucky, pit-a-pat, forget-me-not, mother-of-pearl
  
• Twelfth night or What You Will / Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen

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• Common Denominators: pipes, good expressions, days named after Norse gods, archery terms

• Origins: upshot of a matter, filbert nut, nightmare, mum’s the word

• Fundamental truths: always buy a thermometer in the summer, heavy person down on the seesaw, one doesn’t get drier by going into the sea, opinions about marzipan

• Binomials: flotsam and jetsam, hue and cry, ashes and sackcloth, ps and qs

• The Hotel du Lac / The Walrus and the Carpenter

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• Three of a Kind: invented names, Irishisms, terms involving horses, nouns before the adjective

• Origins and derivations: all above board, curry favour, proposing a toast, on your tod

• Graffiti the panelists would write

• Poetic oddity: lines that use only “I” for vowels

• Count of Monte Cristo / Experience teaches

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• Meeting Places: Contracting for Johnson’s Dictionary, disputed barricade, second witch in Macbeth, Holmes meets with Dr. Stamford

• Find the animal: camel, bison, deer, lion/otter

• Choosing a different name: Hartley Winkby, Daisy, --, Trent Nugent

• Try a little tenderness / Silence gives consent

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• Three of a Kind: donkeys, grasses, indefinite articles, comparative standards

• Posy of Prognostications: Endymion, Marx Das Kapital, talking pictures, Titanic

• Feelings of Inadequacy: nursery rhymes, comic books, caterpillars in the kitchen, starting a clean towel

• Verbal composites: spendthrift, killjoy, spitfire, breakneck

• Maybe it’s because I’m a Londoner / What can’t be cured must be endured

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• Unlikely Connections: Ruthless Rhymes/Coldstream Guards, Christopher Wren/last dodo, Trooper Cumberbach/Ancient mariner, Eric  Little by Little/Montgomery

• Origins and Derivations: at sixes and sevens, dress to the nines, grapes of wrath, conspiracy of silence

• Newfangled nursery rhymes:

• Eureka / Too marvelous for words

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• Regional Variations: children’s truce words, freckles, roof slates, left-handed
• Differences: allay/alleviate, assuage/appease, solid/stolid, inescapable/ineluctable
• Examples of Style
• Definitely Definative: serendipity, ambergris, mnemonic, philander
• Rose of Washington Square / The end justifies the means

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• Odd Man Out: forlorn hope, comparison are odious, soliloquy, types of window

• Eponyms: macadam, grainger, mesmer, bowdler, galvani

• Business References

• Definitely Definitive: widdeshins, nubile, cochineal, giggle

• A room with a view / And this is my beloved

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• Songs from the Shows: Here’s to the Maiden, When Lovely Woman Stoops to Folly, It was a Lover and His Lass, Has Anybody Seen Our Ship

• Four Cities: Paris, Oxford, Athens, Edinburgh

• Verse to Fit Rhymes

• Double Definitions: pool, digs, race, log

• Popocatepetl / It’ll Be Alright on the Night

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• Night Poetry: The Night before Christmas, Aubade by Larkin,
  Byron’s So We’ll No More Go A-Roving, Longfellow’s Excelsior

• Origins and Derivations: between the devil and the deep blue sea, taxi, on the nail, son of a gun

• Stepping Stones: dog-sex, Roy Fuller-Harold Pinter, Henry-Cary, Billingsgate-East Lynn

• Literary Animals: Hodge the cat, Flush the dog, Ricky Ticky Tavi, National Velvet

• An ill-favoured thing sir but mine own / I think therefore I am

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• Golden Round: golden ass, golden apples, golden verses, realms of gold

• Distinctions: equal/emulate, casuistry/sophistry, precise/ punctilious, neurosis/psychosis

• Rhymes: night-fright-puzzle-guzzle, joy-cloy-thunder-asunder, wet-debt-above-shove, portend-bend-larks-Karl Marx

• Deceptive definitions: bijou, personalized/executive, indispensable, adult

• For whom the bell tolls / Things that go bump in the night

[Powell, Muir, Fraser, Norden
O'Donnell/Moore/Atkin]

• Unfavourable Reviews: Wuthering Heights, Milton, Hamlet, Remembrance of Things Past

• Connections: namby-pamby/Gracie Fields, Aldous Huxley / John Whiting/Arthur Miller, sexual politics/frogs, Alexander Dumas pere/Franz Liszt

• Highly adjacent: game-thorax-sofa, antiquated-obstruction- midwifery, string-pain-star, belly-beggar-interval

• Opening Lines: Keats, O’Shaunessey, Wordsworth, Hopkins

• No man is an island / Love is a many splendoured thing

[Scott-James, Muir, Glendenning, Norden
O'Donnell/Moore/Atkin]

• Vocabularies: abetting, juggernaut, plummet, martingale/ farthingale
• Poets: Rupert Brooke, Yeats, Tennyson, WH Auden
• Stepping Stones: Christmas-Lou Grade, steak and kidney-New Orleans, red-wine, Old Vic-Hampton Court
• New meaning: Levels on the splonk, pubcaster, Donald Duck effect, one plus one
• Once more into the breach, dear friends / I’ve got a little list

[Powell, Muir, Fraser, Norden
O'Donnell/Moore/Atkin]

• Verses: G.K. Chesterton/The Rolling English Road, Dylan Thomas, Louis McNeese, John Betjeman

• Pub Signs: Eagle and child, the dog and duck, the fox and grapes, Jack Straw’s castle

• Neighbours: deluxe/delude/deluge, repository/repose / repossess, scratch/scrape/scrap, spotty/spouse/spout

• Common prefix: mis-, pre-, ante-, mid-/over-

• Your eyes are the eyes of a woman in love / Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

[Powell, Muir, Fraser, Norden
O'Donnell/Moore/Atkin]

• Verbal Vagaries: all the letters except “e”, all on the upper row of keys, palindrome, anagram

• Origins and Derivations: pulling a leg, odour of sanctity, hoodwink, peter out

• Differences of Opinion: arguing with a woman is like airmailing the Times in a high wind

• Definitions: galumph, calisthenics, budgerigar, arsenic

• Round the World in 80 days / A little learning is a dangerous thing

[Powell, Muir, Fraser, Norden
O'Donnell/Moore/Atkin]