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to distract myself, I did tomorrow's mensa page. it's appropriate, too.

Posted by b. (aka starrynit) Jun 26 '15, 16:26

There are two familiar seven-letter words that contain all of the letters in the word BRAWN. What are the words? (Hint: In each word, the other two letters are vowels, neither of which is "A.") One word is common, and the other is a recent coinage.

I had to write the letters out and play around with variations. The first came fast, the second took a while.

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And 2 - Rollo Jun 26, 17:01 6
- It can't be a made-up word! -- nm - mud Jun 26, 17:10 3
  - it was added to the OED in 2008! -- nm - b. Jun 26, 17:13
  - It's a perfectly cromulent word -- nm - Rollo Jun 26, 17:13 1
    - I got your cromulent right here! [rude gesture] -- nm - mud Jun 26, 17:18
- excellent! -- nm - b. Jun 26, 17:02 1
  - The hint helped a lot - Rollo Jun 26, 17:05
1 - Rollo Jun 26, 16:58 1
- yep! -- nm - b. Jun 26, 17:00

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to distract myself, I did tomorrow's mensa page. it's appropriate, too.

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