No Not Word Puzzle

You’re listening to A Way with Words, the show about language and how we use it. I’m Grant Barrett.

And I’m Martha Barnette. And joining us now on the line is our quiz guy, John Chaneski. Hi, John.

Hey, Martha. Hi, Grant. I have something very letter-based this week.

Now, what follows are words that begin with N-O. No.

But all of the words, all the answers that follow are going to begin with N-O or N-O-T. Not. No or not.

Now, you add N-O to a word, and you get that other word.

For example, I’m not taking off my hat, but I feel like I’m falling asleep.

That’s no-doff or nod-off.

Oh.

Okay.

Now, some of the following could begin with not, like this is not an atom with a net electric charge, but it is an idea, would be…

A not-ion.

Right.

Or…

Or a notion.

Or notion, not ion or notion.

Yes, very good.

So all of your answers will have two parts.

You’ll give me the not or no part, and then you’ll give me the full part.

Yes?

Okay.

Here we go.

I’m not a fan of a classic humor magazine, but I do like to wander about.

Not nomad.

Right.

Or nomad, right?

That one’s kind of pretty straightforward.

How about this one?

I refuse to give my approval to anything, so I’m just going to curl up in my little reading corner.

No okay and nook?

Yes, no okay and nook.

It looks like everything is off.

I’m not surprised.

It’s 12 p.m.

Not on.

No, no on or noon.

No on or noon, yes.

I have a bed and a chair, but no furniture to eat dinner on.

You have to admit, this is rather significant.

It is indeed.

So not able and no table or no table.

Notable.

Notable.

No table and notable.

Nicely done.

This place never has any strong winds.

It’s a city that’s a port of entry on the U.S.-Mexican border.

Oh, it has no gales.

Therefore, it’s Nogales.

Nogales, yes.

Well done.

Muy bien.

She is not, in fact, a physician who delivers babies, for short.

But she’s also inexperienced at using the internet.

Noob and no OB.

That’s right, yes.

Similarly, when I was in school,

I absolutely refused to take gym for short.

I mean, I really, really, really, really refused.

No P.E. Nope.

Nope, would not.

Finally, this water on the lake has not frozen yet,

But I will put up a sign that lets people know that.

Notice. Not ice. Notice. Not ice and notice. Yes, well done.

John, that was noice.

Noice. Thank you so much.

Thanks, John. Take care.

Thanks, John.

Bye-bye.

Bye-bye.

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