Noam More @ otoh

Noam More

Playing with words is cheap entertainment. [And, trust me, I'm cheap ~~...but not easy!~~.] After observing the similar phoneme pattern of /j/ vowel /n/ in many names, I began to wonder if there are any two consonants that form common English words if you place any vowel sound in between them?

I don’t know whether someone has to think of these things, but if so, you’re welcome. I’ll take the hit for the team. More likely, it’s just that my brain tends to wander in weird directions. After ~~exhaustive research~~ mulling and doodling, I came up with two pairs of consonants that are fairly… um promiscuous. /b/ vowel /t/ and /m/ vowel /t/ make a remarkable [well, I'm remarking on it, anyway] number of words.

bat
bait
bet
beat
bit
bite
bot
boat
boot
but
butte

mat
mate
met
meet
mitt
mite
mot
moat
moot
mutt
mute

Posted on January 15th, 2009 Tim 1 comment

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One response to “Noam More”
1. kitty January 17th, 2009 at 13:46
  
  OMG!! that is totally something I would do!! wasting time while I waste time watching tv…
  
  one time I got a place mat with a phrase on it (having to do with the theme of the restaurant) asking how many words I could make out of the letters in the phrase… for months I sat there making a HUGE list of words… because it never gave a number – it just said you should be able to make ‘at least’ this many… I’ve made WAY more than that many
  
  I get bored of it and stick it away and then every few months I stumble upon it and start working on the list again… it seems it may be never ending!! haaaa
  
  anyway… new project… write a story using those words

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