Ten nine-letter words have been separated into units of three letters. The units have been randomly put in the below list. Can you determine the original 10 words?

   ent sen oom ush ile cro
   cla rbr ise lis ssr lig
   hai mar htn age ess new
   sag clo gar ion ing oth
   enc ine col our erw cod 

lightning 
encourage
classroom
hairbrush
margarine
otherwise
closeness
collision
crocodile
newsagent

I had lightness and entourage for awhile... once I changed those to lightning and encourage, I finally found newsagent. But I wasn't sure it was a word until I spell-checked it.

I did this all in Excel, by the way--it's a nice tool for dragging the syllables around.

Edited on October 15, 2004, 5:20 am

Posted by Ken Haley on 2004-10-15 05:18:46