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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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(In reply to a couple of wild guesses by Charlie)

The important part is actually the words themselves, not the meaning.

Note that the second sentence talks about deleting a zero (not a capital letter O); and the penultimate sentence refers to the number 13; the last sentence refers to 1/2.

Also the title contains a somewhat obscure Perplexus clue.

Posted by Larry on 2023-05-30 14:21:16

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