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  Vocabularies: lallation, filemot, lustrum, quidnunc
  
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  Places in Common: typographical symbols, clock hand styles, shapes of gravestones, parts of the face
  
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  Colorful Poetry: gray-green Limpopo, blue hills of Shropshire, gray beard of Ancient Mariner, purple cow
  
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  Homophones: berth/birth, gnaw/nor, beret/berry, slight/sleight
  
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  “Six of one, half a dozen of the other” (FM) / “Everybody loves somebody sometime” (DN)
  

MoD

27:03, 12685, M

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#433

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  Vocabularies: epicurean, friable, harbinger, turnsick
  
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  Mixed bag: brassiere, anagram, inventor of cribbage, fish - ghoti
  
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  Things in common: written in gaol, toadstools, all Shakespearean quotations, John Bainborough
  
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  Monosyllables: 007, Oliver Cromwell’s warts, how to fry an egg, first on becoming PM
  
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  “The heart of the matter” (FM) / “The flight of the bumblebee” (DN)
  

MoD

27:15, 12783, M

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KALW-FM, 27-Aug-2004

27:29, 25768, S

#434

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  Vocabularies: amanuensis, banshee, afflatus, estivate
  
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  Shakespearean Klangers: Roman clock striking, Cleopatra’s billiards, King John’s cannon, ship in desert of Bohemia
  
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  Numbers: a thousand, 24, 15, 41
  
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  Double Definitions: distemper, spruce, churchwarden, bootless
  
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  “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” (FM) / “Who Was that Lady I Saw You with Last Night?” (DN)
  

MoD

KALW-FM, 03-Sep-2004

26:52, 25195, S

#435

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  Vocabularies: gubernatorial, magniloquent, Cimmerian, mezzanine
  
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  Literary drinks: Samson-samson, Socrates, Proverbs, Thurber on wine
  
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  Answers: ignorance madam, at Stonehenge/on murdering Alec, a little more than kith, four larks two owls…
  
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  Words for foreigners: entrance, dessert/desert, contract, incense
  
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  “Somewhere over the rainbow” (FM) / “Somewhere I’ll find you” (DN)
  

MoD

KALW-FM, 10-Sep-2004

26:36, 24945, S

#436

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  Vocabularies: halcyon, meniscus, goluptuous, spuddle
  
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  Things in common: victoria, skipping rope games, hounds, warts
  
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  Poetry with Oceanic Overtones: lonely sea, silent sea, silver sea, sunless sea
  
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  Homonyms: marshall/martial, feint/faint, new/gnu, limb/limn
  
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  “The Pirates of Penzance” (FM) / “Do-re-mi-fa-so-la-ti” (DN)
  

MoD

ABC-MH, 28-Aug-2003

KALW-FM, 17-Sep-2004

KWAX-FM, 18-Sep-2004

27:00, 25325, S

#437

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  Vocabularies: hepatic, crassitude, pantechnion, bugaboo
  
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  Derivations: it’s all my eye and Betty Martin, preposterous, dandelion, curfew
  
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  Familiar Shakespeare: to the manor born, the be all and the end all, it beggared all description, wear my heart upon my sleeve
  
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  Words used in their homes: macinsop, horserubbish, bed-raggled, taking one of nature’s cuts, God’s champagne, misled, fiduffa
  
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  Words changing when plural: spectacle(s), marble(s), pant(s), bellow(s)
  
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  “Here today gone tomorrow” (FM) / “There’s a sucker born every minute” (DN)
  

MoD

ABC-MH, 04-Sep-2003

KALW-FM, 24-Sep-2004

KWAX-FM, 25-Aug-2007

27:19, 25617, S

#438

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  Vocabularies: pollical, nugatory, cordwainer, oojiboo
  
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  Kisses: Mademoiselle from Armetiers, Kipling, Kiss me Hardy, Clementine
  
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  Who or What were They: winged seeds, daffodils, bread biscuits sweets and joints, bees
  
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  Double barreled words: shilly shally, willy nilly, hurly burly, fuddy duddy
  
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  “A change is as good as a rest” (FM) / “Do not count your chickens until they are hatched” (DN)
  

MoD

KALW-FM, 01-Oct-2004

27:05, 25392, S

#439

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  Vocabularies: sesquipedalian, catacumen, fanfaronade, cinerary
  
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  Something in Common: curtailed words, all lifted from French, grasses, signs of the Zodiac
  
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  Unique Utterances: you can fool some of the people, Armstrong’s landing speech, never was so much …, I came I saw …
  
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  “Onward Christian soldiers” (FM) / “Red sails in the sunset” (DN)
  

MoD

KALW-FM, 08-Oct-2004

26:23, 24747, S

#440

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  Vocabularies: abecedary, spandrel, basilisk, rumblegumption
  
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  Terms in common: Bellringing, romantic novels, computer terms, aviation terms
  
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  Hats: trilby, William Tell, wideawake hat, candlewax
  
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  “In Memoriam” (FM) / “All the News Fit to Print” (DN)
  

MoD

ABC-MH, 25-Sep-2003

KALW-FM, 15-Oct-2004

KWAX-FM, 15-Sep-2007

27:18, 25595, S

#441

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  Vocabularies: majuscule, ephemeron, concupiscence, invultuation
  
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  Beginning sentences: 1984, Peter Pan, Brighton Rock, Mr. Loveday’s Little Outing
  
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  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
  
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  Homonyms: raise/raze, wood/would, metal/mettle, horde/hoard
  
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  “Hallelujah!” (FM) / “Maybe It’s Because I’m a Londoner” (DN)
  

MoD

ABC-MH, 02-Oct-2003

KALW-FM, 22-Oct-2004

KWAX-FM, 22-Sep-2007

27:29, 25769, S