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Phrasing Frustration (Posted on 2023-05-29)

How is an eclipse a palindrome?
How does deleting 0 from advisory produce a pelvis?
What does humming have to do with Stanley Kubrick?
How can a circumcision start out like a palindrome but later include a modified 13?
How can you multiply a semivowel by one half and get radii?

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a couple of wild guesses

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Here I'm assuming the referent is the subject, rather than the word itself.

In an eclipse, the moon comes in and starts to cover the sun and leaves in the reverse order of phases. Or in the case of a lunar eclipse, the earth's shadow comes in from one side and leaves via the other, reversing the sequence again.

If you take half a W, or the top half of a Y, you get a V, which might be considered two radii of a circle with the center at where the two lines (radii) meet.

Posted by Charlie on 2023-05-30 10:39:16

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