Thursday, March 29, 2012

How is This Different

One of these words is not like the others. Which one, and how is it different? Race... borrow... taste... suspect... drive... dive.

7 comments:

  1. I'm going to go with borrow, because it is the only word that can only be a verb and not a noun.

    But, there's also:

    Race is the only one capitalized.

    dive doesn't have 3 dots after it.

    borrow is the only one with double consecutive letters.

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  2. Here are a few more possibilities (at least one for each word):

    -race (only verb to add a syllable in the third person present)
    details: (race/s; vs. borrow/s, taste/s, suspect/s, drive/s, dive/s)

    -borrow (cannot make a new valid word by appending one of its own letters)
    details: (race/r, taste/s, suspect/s, drive/r, dive/d)

    -borrow (does not contain the letter "e")
    details: (self-explanatory)

    -taste (only word to contain two consecutive letters in an uninterrupted alphabetic sequence)
    details: (ta[st]e)

    -suspect (only word that ends in an unvoiced letter)
    details: (t; vs. e/w/e/e/e)

    -drive (all others contain another valid word starting at the second letter)
    details: (r/ace, b/or/row, t/as/te, s/us/pect, d/i/ve)

    -drive (all others contain a periodic table abbreviation starting at the second letter)
    details: (r/ac/e, b/o/rrow, t/as/te, s/u/spect, d/i/ve)

    -drive (contains an odd number of distinct letters)
    details: (race, borw, tase, supect, dive; vs. drive)

    -dive (only strictly intransitive verb) (cannot say "they x them")
    details: (self-explanatory)

    I'm leaning toward the first option ("race"), maybe...

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  3. "borrow" is the only word that is only a verb; i.e., instead of both a verb and a noun.

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  4. All of the words except borrow have the letter e

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  5. Wow... that's all I can say is wow!

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  6. Suspect changes pronunciation when used as a noun vs a verb.

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  7. also all the words but 'drive' have a past tense form using "ed" as in borrowed.

    Where as the past tense of drive is driveN

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