Game No 31:  Some Language Games

1.    If you were to spell out numbers, how far would you have to go until you would find the letter 'A'?
Ans: One thousand

2. There are only three words in standard English begin with the letters 'dw' and they are all common words. Name at least two of them. (dweeb is not an answer)
Ans:  dwarf, dwell and dwindle.

3. Name 6 or more things that you can wear on your feet beginning with the letter 'S'
Ans:  Shoes, socks, sandals, sneakers, slippers, skis, skates, snowshoes, stockings, stilts.

4. What is that word that, if you move its 1st letter to the last, it will spell its past tense?
Ans:  "Eat" is the only word that, if you move its 1st letter to the last, it will spell its past tense, "ate"?

5. Give us a word which ends in the letters "mt"
Ans:  "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".

6. Can you tell the words which can rhyme with the following words?
Month, Orange, Silver, and Purple.
Ans:  No word in the English language rhymes with these words

7. Can you name the words which end in "dous"
Clue: There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous" --
Ans:  Tremendous, Horrendous, Stupendous, and Hazardous

8. Tell us a word which has all the five vowels in order - a, e, i, o ,u in it.
Clue:  There are only two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order - a, e, i, o ,u
Ans:  "abstemious" and "facetious."

9. What is the longest word which can be typed on a typewriter's one row of the alphabet?
Ans :  TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one periterrow of the keyboard.

10. What is the longest word which can be typed by only by left hand, and only by right hand?
Ans :  "Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand; and
          "lollipop" with your right hand.

11. Which is the longest English word?
That is "Smiles", because there is a mile in between two s - "Smiles".

12. Here are a few letters. Use these letters to make words.
Each word must contain the letter G
No letter must be used twice.
No proper nouns, but you may make plural words
There is at least one 9-letter word.
Excellent - 24 words;  Good - 18 words;  Average - 15 words
L  E  A  C  N  E  H  L    and    G

Ans:  Common Words - Age,  Allege,  Angel,  Angle,  Cage,  CHALLENGE,  Change,  Clang,  Eagle,  Gal,  Gale,  Gall,  Gel,  Gene,  Glance,  Glean,  Glee,  Glen,  Hag,  Hang,  Lag,  Leg,  Legal,  Nag
All Words - Ag,  Age,  Agee,  Agene,  Aglee,  Allege,  Angel,  Angle,  Cage,  Challenge,  Chang,  Change,  Clag,  Clang,  Eagle,  Egal,  Encage,  Eng,  Gae,  Gaen,  Gal,  Gale,  Gall,  Gan,  Gane,  Gee,  Gel,  Gen,  Gene,  Ghee,  Glace,  Glance,  Glean,  Glee,  Glen,  Hag,  Hang,  Lag,  Lang,  Leg,  Legal,  Nag