UNUSUAL WORDS XXVII

1. What is unusual about the word UNDERSTUDY?

2. What is unusual about the two words MILK JOHN

3. Name two words starting with double E.

4. Name two words starting with double O.

5. Name a word and a name starting with double L.

6. What is the only English word ending in MT?

7. Name the only three words in English ending in CION.

8. Two five-letter words differ by only their fourth letter, which is U in one of the words and changes to V in the other. These are the only two English words that have this type of change. What are they?

HINT:

8: Both words start with V.

Answers:

 

1. UNDERSTUDY contains four letters in consecutive alphabetical order: undeRSTUdy

 

2. The eight letters that make up the words MILK JOHN are in consecutive order in the alphabet: H I J K L M N O .

 

3. EEL - EERIE

4. OOMPH - OOZE

5. LLAMA - LLOYD

6. DREAMT 

7. SCION, SUSPICION, COERCION

8. VALUE - VALVE