Quiz Guy John Chaneski has a take-off puzzle this week, offering clues to rhyming two-word phrases made by removing the letter D from the beginning of one of them. For example, if your sound equipment was damaged in a flood, what are you left with? This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Remove a D Rhyming Word Quiz”
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 is our quiz guy, John Chaneski.
Hey, John.
Hey, Martha.
Hey, Grant.
Hey, buddy.
What’s up?
Hey, well, you know, I just got here, but I’m going to take off.
Just kidding.
What I mean is we’re going to do take-offs.
Yeah, we’ve done this before.
These are called take-offs.
That’s where we take off the first letter of a word to get another word, right?
Okay.
Now, this time, we’re only going to make two words by taking the letter D from the start of a word.
Only D this time, okay?
For example, if I said that my sound equipment had been damaged in the flood, that would clue the words damp and amp.
Aha.
Now remember, the two words will always rhyme.
We’re not going to do any devil and evil.
It’s always going to be a rhyme.
Dad and ad like that.
Got it?
Got it.
Okay.
Good.
Let’s see what these clues clue.
I say my false shirt front has become disgusting.
My dicky has become icky.
Dicky and icky.
That’s very good.
And if that wasn’t enough, my lacy decorative mat has become rather oleaginous.
My oily doily.
Oily doily, yes.
And this lifeboat is no better.
It’s watertight, yes, but there’s a breeze coming in through this crack in the canopy.
A drift rift?
I don’t know.
Close.
Change the vowel and you’ve got it.
Draft raft.
Draft raft, yes.
Now this, it’s what the gutters on my rooftop do.
Drain rain.
Hey, drain rain, yes.
Oh, this small baked good is quite amusing.
Not dinner roll.
Oh, so close.
Really?
Really?
This small baked good is so humorous.
Oh, it’s roll roll.
Oh, it’s so, so droll.
Oh, boy.
Oh.
Now, I’ve determined that this Christmas ornament hangs precisely 90 degrees from its branch.
The angle dangle?
Yes, the angle dangle.
Nice.
If you think I can’t escape your clutches, you’re fooling yourself.
Elude, delude, delude, delude.
Yes, elude, delude.
Very good.
And now I acted that role to the highest degree, but I have been relegated to the chorus.
Emoted, demoted?
Yes.
Nice.
Now, finally, will somebody please turn this boat’s lights on?
Dark arc.
Dark arc.
That’s good.
All right.
All right.
Those are our takeoffs for the letter D.
Nicely done, you guys.
Thank you.
Oh, John.
Done in one.
Done in one.
Done in one, yes.
We’ll talk to you next week, John.
Thank you for the quiz.
Talk to you then.
Thank you.
Cheers.
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