At the Saint Al’s Toastmasters club meeting yesterday the Word of the Day was banal (meaning boring or lacking originality). I couldn’t help noticing that the very different word word anal was contained within it. Lots of other words also have that property, and some contain multiple words. At Wordnik there is a web page of “Puts the ___ in _____” Jokes with 221 items! Twenty examples (with the larger word first) are:
Ambassador – ado, ass, bass
Asking - skin
Brash - rash
Controller - troll
Dungaree - dung
Execute - cute
Flamboyant - boy
Gangster - angst
Grave - rave
Innovation – no, vat
Kidnap - nap
Manslaughter - laughter
Mortgage – gag
Narrative - rat
Origin - gin
Outwit - twit
Pantsuit - ants
Patriot - riot
Sincere - sin
Travel – rave
The Jack-in-the-Box image was adapted from one at Openclipart.
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