Anon threw down this gauntlet: ""UK soap operas sharing names with National Trust properties."
Bayard aced it with Springhill (UK soap opera, National Trust site).
I'm not sure that a single item actually qualifies as a list; if anybody has a bright suggestion for a Short List with at least two but preferably no more than three items on it, please leave a comment.
Wednesday 3 August 2011
Short Lists
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I've got a stunner for the newly popular one item list should all else fail.Which common British bird,featured in popular song, is known for its addiction to marijuana?This is a matter of genuine scientific interest IMO, as that explorer geezer said in A Handful of Dust when he discovered the rivers were flowing both ways.
How about queens of England that were born commoners? (Kate M doesn't count as she hasn't made it to queen yet.)
A famous old joke: "what's brown and sticky? A stick".
Ha ha.
Now, this joke relies on a special property of the word "stick" and the adjective "sticky". Normally, that "y" suffix to a noun makes the adjective mean "like the noun"; but in the case of stick it has a secondary meaning, making the joke possible.
The short list I'm after (and I have no definitive answers) is the list of words that share this property. They don't have to be funny.
e.g. "What's white and cloudy? A cloud" would not qualify, because the adjective means "noun-y".
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