Can you solve the problem here and figure out the answer as all of the words listed below have an amazing thing in common?

PECAN                   SHALL
BAYOU                  ROOF
RESOLVE              TITHE
BATHE                   BYWORDS
REPRO                   ENLISTED
EMBLEM               CUBE
SPHERE                 ALLOW
STAND                   BEHAVE
REFIGURE            SWAN
ABOUT                  DRAMA
LATHE                   DOZING
PLANS                   NOTHING
LOWER                  SPIN
PEAS                       UNCOMMON

HINT:
Does the opening question seem a bit awkward? There's a reason for that.

Answer:

When the first two letters of each words are removed, new or partial words are revealed. Reading these new words in order down the columns results in the same sentence as the opening question of the puzzle.

Credit:
GAMES/World of Puzzles
October, 2016
Raymond Love
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