ODD AND ENDS

1. What do the these three words have in common?

JAUNT

ABYSS

ALMONDS

 

2. What three-word phrase of ten letters would Popeye say to his girlfriend - using only five different letters?

 

3. CHASSIS is an interesting word for at least two reasons. What are they?

 

Answers:

 

1. If you drop one letter from each word and re-arrange the others, you get the name of a fish:

JAUNT - TUNA

ABYSS - BASS

ALMONDS - SALMON

 

2.  I LOVE OLIVE

     (Olive Oyl is Popeye's girlfriend.)

 

3. CHASSIS [CHAS' E] (the base frame of a car) is both singular and plural.

    One chassis / Two chassis 

    In the plural, it is pronounced CHAS' EEZ -making it a heteronym (the same word pronounced in two different ways).