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What English word can be any part of speech?
There is a four-letter English word that can be a noun, verb, adjective, adverb, preposition, conjunction or interjection. What is it? Are there any others?
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[nq:1]There is a four-letter English word that can be a noun, verb, adjective, adverb, preposition, conjunction or interjection. [/nq] After the Great Gry Scandal, I'm suspicious. Do you know first-hand that there is a good answer and you are posing this to us as a solvable riddle, or are you just passing this along because you don't know any answer?
- [nq:1]There is a four-letter English word that can be a noun, verb, adjective, adverb, preposition, conjunction or interjection.
- [/nq] After the Great Gry Scandal, I'm suspicious.
- Do you know first-hand that there is a good answer and you are posing this to us as a solvable riddle, or are you just passing this along because you don't know any answer?
- There are very few four-letter prepositions, and also very few four-letter conjunctions.
- I get four possible categories for "till" and five for "down".
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[nq:1]There is a four-letter English word that can be a noun, verb, adjective, adverb, preposition, conjunction or interjection. What is it?[/nq]
After the Great Gry Scandal, I'm suspicious. Do you know first-hand that there is a good answer and you are posing this to us as a solvable riddle, or are you just passing this along because you don't know any answer?
There are very few fo
After the Great Gry Scandal, I'm suspicious. Do you know first-hand that there is a good answer and you are posing this to us as a solvable riddle, or are you just passing this along because you don't know any answer?
There are very few fo
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[nq:2]There is a four-letter English word that can be a noun, verb, adjective, adverb, preposition, conjunction or interjection. What is it?[/nq]
[nq:1]After the Great Gry Scandal, I'm suspicious. Do you know first-hand that there is a good answer and you are ... few four-letter prepositions, and also very few four-letter conjunctions. I get four possible categories for "till" and five
[nq:1]After the Great Gry Scandal, I'm suspicious. Do you know first-hand that there is a good answer and you are ... few four-letter prepositions, and also very few four-letter conjunctions. I get four possible categories for "till" and five
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[nq:2]After the Great Gry Scandal, I'm suspicious. Do you know ... get four possible categories for "till" and five for "down".[/nq]
[nq:1]The conjecture that the word might be indelicate led me to this website http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A753527 which contains some fascinating, but probably erroneous,
[nq:1]The conjecture that the word might be indelicate led me to this website http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A753527 which contains some fascinating, but probably erroneous,
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[nq:2]The conjecture that the word might be indelicate led me ... the old lady's abode that I was previously unaware of.[/nq]
[nq:1]Odd use of asterisks in that page, I thought.[/nq]
Me too. If Wilmur Flintstone can say 'bollocks', why not write it out?
[nq:1]I don't get the bit about the name being a euphemism. There's more authoritative info at
[nq:1]Odd use of asterisks in that page, I thought.[/nq]
Me too. If Wilmur Flintstone can say 'bollocks', why not write it out?
[nq:1]I don't get the bit about the name being a euphemism. There's more authoritative info at
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[nq:1]There is a four-letter English word that can be a noun,[/nq]
I'm very fond of riddles, enigmas, puzzles and the like.
[nq:1]verb,[/nq]
As I said, I like riddles.
[nq:1]adjective,[/nq]
Have you any other like riddles for me?
[nq:1]adverb,[/nq]
I love them like crazy. (The AHD4 says it's an adverb here.)
[nq:1]preposition,[/nq]
It's just like the great summe
I'm very fond of riddles, enigmas, puzzles and the like.
[nq:1]verb,[/nq]
As I said, I like riddles.
[nq:1]adjective,[/nq]
Have you any other like riddles for me?
[nq:1]adverb,[/nq]
I love them like crazy. (The AHD4 says it's an adverb here.)
[nq:1]preposition,[/nq]
It's just like the great summe
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[nq:1]Re: what English word can be any part of speech?[/nq]
Any.
Personal accounts are good because they lessen the liability against future taxes of the retiree while sequestering the funds he's been paying in so they cannot be used to mask current general fund deficits.
Any.
Personal accounts are good because they lessen the liability against future taxes of the retiree while sequestering the funds he's been paying in so they cannot be used to mask current general fund deficits.
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I've never heard of Grape St. Here is something authoritative on Magpie Lane, from one of my favourite sites.
Laura
(emulate St. George for email)
Laura
(emulate St. George for email)
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[nq:1]There is a four-letter English word that can be a noun, verb, adjective, adverb, preposition, conjunction or interjection.[/nq]
In my mind words simply aren't parts of speech. They can act as parts of speech, but that's not the same thing. A word isn't a noun any more than Leonardo DiCaprio is Howard Hughes.
Mike Barnes
Cheshire, England
In my mind words simply aren't parts of speech. They can act as parts of speech, but that's not the same thing. A word isn't a noun any more than Leonardo DiCaprio is Howard Hughes.
Mike Barnes
Cheshire, England
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[nq:2]Odd use of asterisks in that page, I thought.[/nq]
[nq:1]Me too. If Wilmur Flintstone can say 'bollocks', why not write it out?[/nq]
I thought so too, but I wondered whether, seeeing as it's the BBC, they do that in order not to have the site blocked by (eg) schools.
Katy Jennison
spamtrap: remove the first two letters after the @
[nq:1]Me too. If Wilmur Flintstone can say 'bollocks', why not write it out?[/nq]
I thought so too, but I wondered whether, seeeing as it's the BBC, they do that in order not to have the site blocked by (eg) schools.
Katy Jennison
spamtrap: remove the first two letters after the @
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