Joel and I enjoy seeing the alternative words suggested by our cell phones when texting. For example, I was typing "soap" and found that 7627 could also spell snap, roar, robs, soar, and sobs. We have often gotten tricked by "home" turning into "good" or vice versa without our noticing, causing some strange messages. But 4663 can also be gone, goof, hood, hone, and hoof. Joel noticed that "biking" can also be "ailing" or even "bikini!"
We thought it might be fun to start a parlor game or poetry contest based on these word sets. Making words out of a set of letters reminded me of the game Boggle, which I accidentally typed as Boogle when emailing Joel , so now we have a name for this concept.
BTW, Liv's homemade Greek-style yogurt did not turn out when using Blue Bunny brand yogurt (it all ran through the cheesecloth). So I make no guarantees, but mine is great.
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I've discovered there is another name for these (though I like ours better) - "textonyms."
I made a web page with a list of (some of) them:
http://mrklingo.freeshell.org/boogles.html
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