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  Vocabularies: izzard, postulant, cerebellum, nexus
  
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  Horses: Black Beauty, one horsepower, Caligula’s horse, Richard III
  
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  Inscriptions: by perseverance I conquer, if thy heart fails thee climb not at all, the gates of Hell, out of strength cometh sweetness
  
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  Three word quotations: all our yesterdays, the silent dust, triumph and disaster, a ghostly batsman
  
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  “Oh dear what can the matter me” (FM) / “Every little movement has a meaning of its own” (DN)
  

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KALW-FM, 29-Oct-2004

27:054, 2539823, S

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  Vocabularies: caprification, flocculate, trogolodyte, flockizenihipilification
  
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  Victoriana: a preacher or speaker, a sovereign, an inebriate, hairdos
  
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  Verbal transplants: vasistas, ich niedviet=nitwit, kickshaw, voksal=Vauxhall
  
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  Americana: realtor=estate agent, transom=fanlight, vest=waistcoat, casket=coffin
  
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  “Down among the Sheltering Palms” (FM) / “Off We Go into the Wild Blue Yonder” (DN)
  

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KALW-FM, 05-Nov-2004

KWAX-FM, 06-Nov-2004

KXOT-FM, 06-Oct-2007

26:56, 25254, S

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  Vocabularies: fustigation, wraith, hubristic, graphospasm
  
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  Four of a kind: puns, bird cries, merged words, systems
  
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  Newspaper headlines: Raleigh spreads his coat, apple hits Newton, Cnut can’t halt the tide, Washington confesses about cherry tree
  
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  Double-barreled words: harum scarum, helter skelter, wishy washy, heebie jeebies
  
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  “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times” (FM) / “Alice through the Looking Glass” (DN)
  

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KALW-FM, 12-Nov-2004

KWAX-FM, 13-Nov-2004

KXOT-FM, 13-Oct-2007

27:04, 25382, S

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  Vocabularies: tushery, paradigm, quondam, jirble
  
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  Quotations: Goldsmith, Southey, Coleridge, Shakespeare
  
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  Improbable confrontations: Florence Nightingale, Attila the Hun, Guy Fawkes, Signora Lucretia Borgia
  
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  Ancient adjectives: naughty, silly, enthusiastic, prestigious
  
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  “Meni meni teko a parsen” (FM) / “Hoist with his own petard” (DN)
  

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KALW-FM, 19-Nov-2004

KWAX-FM, 20-Nov-2004

KXOT-FM, 20-Oct-2007

26:58, 25292, S

#446

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  Vocabularies: fenestration, gibbous, condign, digraph
  
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  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
  
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  Near synonyms: flagrant/blatant, turgid/turbid, kith/kin, flout/flaunt
  
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  Double definitions: temper, assault, shy, brook
  
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  “The sound of music” (FM) / “This was the noblest Roman of all” (DN)
  

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KALW-FM, 26-Nov-2004

KWAX-FM, 27-Nov-2004

KXOT-FM, 27-Oct-2007

27:10, 25471, S

#447

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  Vocabularies: symposium, salmagundy, sententious, nosology
  
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  Something in Common: translated phrases, ghosts, shipwrecked, Inspectors in Sherlock Holmes
  
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  Verbal imports: kowtow, paradise, wigwam, tycoon
  
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  “Of shoes and ships and sealing wax…” (FM) / “You and the night and the music”(DN)
  

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KALW-FM, 03-Dec-2004

KWAX-FM, 05-Dec-2004

KXOT-FM, 03-Nov-2007

27:10, 25485, S

#448

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  Vocabularies: gizzard, samite, lurid, luscious
  
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  Bread and Butter: bread the staff of life, the Reverend Mr Collins, Jael and Heber the Canaanite, the waiter roars it through the hall
  
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  Differences: jocose/jocular, impromptu/ex tempore, fable/parable, complacent/complaisant
  
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  “Tales from the Vienna Woods” (FM) / “By the time I get to Phoenix”(DN)
  

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KALW-FM, 10-Dec-2004

27:24, 25703, S

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

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KALW-FM, 17-Dec-2004

26:35, 24932,, S

#464

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

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KALW-FM, 07-Jan-2005

27:07, 25435, S

#467

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  Common Denominators: tiddlywinks, flowers named after people, Shakespeare’s siblings, icicles
  
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  Origins: steal one’s thunder, a hooligan, lackadaisical, toodle loo
  
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  Eponymities: perpetual bowtie, self-pruning rose, dog training, elastic band on wrist
  
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  Rhyming Chiming: higgledy piggledy, argy bargy, hanky panky, roly poly
  
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  “Treasure Island” (FM) / “Never give a sucker an even break”(DN)
  

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KALW-FM, 14-Jan-2005

27:05, 25403, S

#465

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

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KALW-FM, 21-Jan-2005

27:12, 25502, S

#466

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  Common Denominators: pipes, good expressions, days named after Norse gods, archery terms
  
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  Origins: upshot of a matter, filbert nut, nightmare, mum’s the word
  
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  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
  
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  Binomials: flotsam and jetsam, hue and cry, ashes and sackcloth, ps and qs
  
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  “The Hotel du Lac” (FM) / “The Walrus and the Carpenter” (DN)
  

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KALW-FM, 28-Jan-2005

26:54, 25221, S

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