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86 11 Mar 2025

Working Hypothesis

Join the following ideas together to form a single sentence:

Your desk is untidy. I know your character.

Try to do this in at least two different ways. You can change anything you like so long as the underlying ideas remain the same. See if you can include one of more of these words:

Mess. Sort. Tell.

This exercise appeared in Exercises 12-13 (1933) by NL Clay.

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87 10 Mar 2025

The Minstrel Boy

Thomas Moore

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88 10 Mar 2025

Train

Introduction — A Polyword is a game with words and letters. Make words of four letters or more from the letters of a nine-letter word, using each letter only once. Include the highlighted letter in every word you make. Can you beat our score?

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89 10 Mar 2025

Window Scene

The words of the following sentence have been jumbled up; can you restore the original order, and add suitable punctuation?

window to crowded bridesmaids the the

Original

Can you do it with these sentences as well?

1. another I dance to with have hoped you

2. with said start a why elizabeth

3. he woman said the little artful smiling

Originals

Sentences taken from the novels of Thomas Hardy.

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