Square Root of 5: December 2007

Won't need to go to Oklahoma City to check out Feed the Children (FTC).

Monday, December 3, 2007

This is just a sample of the sort of thing you find on the internet if you Google <"Feed the Children">:

American Institute of Philanthrophy | Summer 1999 Watchdog Report

Steve Highfill, who was recently replaced as director of the Nashville center, one of FTC's two U.S. distribution centers, told WTVF: "If they're taking stuff home and giving their little brother a pair of shoes or some food, I don't have much to say about that. If that's wrong, fine. I don't think so and I don't think people are going to think so." Larry Jones, founder and president of Feed the Children, responded later at a press conference by saying: "Donated items are not perks for employees. The executive director was not acting with my authority or approval with the decisions that he made regarding the employees taking donated items, and he was not acting in conformance with company policy."

"No one has to tell you when it's right" apparently doesn't fit Mr. Highfill in its turned-around form.

Or Monty Rainwater either. After forging an Arthur Andersen name on three audit reports, at least two of which were accepted by FTC's board of directors, Rainwater (a previous CFO for FTC in the 1990s) was fined $30,000 by the Oklahoma Accountancy Board. He also lost his CPA Cerfificate -- gee, what a surprise.

Then there's the matter of the small percentage of the cash taken in that reaches those in need. FTC is not very good about divulging financial information, but the best I've been able to find for reaching the target audience is less than 15%. The rest goes to fundraising activities (tv advertising, direct mail, etc.) and running the organization -- payroll, etc.

The words "disreputable charity" and "Feed the Children" seem to go hand-in-hand. Note: That's not to say that its founder, Larry Jones, is getting rich. Absent reliable or even visible financial information, that's hard to say. Still, part of his empire is a for-profit trucking business run in conjunction with FTC. The reason given for that: Someone at FTC thought it would be a good idea to be able to load trucks on return trips after delivering FTC's largesse. Not necessarily dishonest, but setting up a for-profit business under your charity umbrella is not the sort of thing that enhances your reputation for altruism.

If I ever find myself in Oklahoma City with time on my hands, I might go to the Oklahoma County courthouse and see if I can track down any property in Mr. Jones's or his wife's or daughter's name. A Nichol Hills home address would be a sure sign they're living very well. I wouldn't even need to do a drive-by. . . .

I just went downstairs to check on Mandy and tell her what I've been looking into and what I found out. She thinks a second Jones daughter and her husband worked for us when we were losing our investment in a bar and grill. Supposedly, Jones wanted her to be part of his organization, but it didn't work out. They didn't pan out for us either. (For your information, I always took anything anyone told me at the bar with a barrel of salt.)

OK, back to work.

Regards,

"Irwin"

Labels: charity, fraud, scam

Re: Adventures in Oklahoma

Sunday, December 2, 2007

Woke up in the middle of the night all stuffed up and found the always pleasant surprise of a note from you.

There was problem with the previous hyperlink because I had updated with a newer post, changing the web page address. I've re-entered the post to make a working hyperlink that looks like the original one: Homophones and near-homophones. The table format I've used for the homophones list works out very well for making updates, since I'm using a spreadsheet to keep the words sortable. The table looks a lot like the ones I sent to you before, except that I've used a "script" that makes the web page much, much shorter.

Here's a clickable hyperlink to get you to the Square Root of 5 web page: http://2236067977.blogspot.com/. (From memory, thinking mostly in terms of telephone numbers, which I remember easily: 2.23606 7977 4997 896 9640 917 366 8731 to a few more decimal places, thanks to one Johannes Karlsson). If you send an email to ideoskeptic.x@blogger.com, the subject of your email becomes the title of a post and the body of the email becomes the body of the post.

"Xxxxxxx" is now in my file of words to be added to the pd -- waiting for a more suitable time of day to come up with something . . . suitable. Same with the 30,000 grains of rice.

Since I now have access to and know how to update (limited to text, cascading style sheets, HTML, and images -- the programming code is much more than I want to take on) the pd website -- are there any sites you have that you want me to link to on the home page? FreeRice may deserve more attention than it would get being listed as one small part of a string of sites as has been done previously on the home page. Several other "good works" sites could be added as well.

If I'm right about my speculation (>99.44% sure, I am, I am) about what's causing the extra load on the mediatemple server, we'll want to keep plenty of links on the home page that take miscreants to other sites -- a few "enemy sites" might be good candidates for "invisible links" that get found only by software, but not by live visitors. Now that I think about it, I can set up some NotLong hyperlinks that will enable me to do two things easily: get a count of the number of times a link is hit, and change the target site without having to do anything at pseudodictionary.com.

And, now that I've thought about it a little bit more, I know how to come up with the infinite loops and tons and tons of links. I had been trying to think of what target sites I could use to do that without over-burdening one of the limited bandwidth free sites I've set up, but there's an obvious answer: Link to Blogger web pages. Microsoft can handle any load easily. I'll just have to make sure I don't allow comments. I may want to make the pd forum just a little bit trickier to get to as well. I deleted over 300 spam registrations yesterday. It took only about 10 to 15 minutes, but it's still a pain in the ass.

I'm still stuffed up, so I'll perk myself up for another half-hour or so by brushing my teeth; gargling some anti-cavity fluoride rinse; and rubbing a washcloth loaded with astringent skin cleanser about my bald pate, ears, face, and neck. It won't keep me awake nearly as long as a shower would at this point, but it will be refreshing enough for me to create some not-so-short NotLong hyperlinks: http://www.x.notlong.com & http://www.xx.notlong.com & http://www.xxx.notlong.com. (If you cut and paste those into your browser address bar, the http:// is not needed.) I'll set those up as "pseudo-Easter-Eggs," blind hyperlinks for you to click on once in a while to see what I've found interesting and want to pass along to you.

Back to bed before morning gets here. I'll take another look at this before I send it. There's always another tweak to make. And, Marty, I hope there's another birthday for you to celebrate for many, many years to come. . . .

Got sidetracked by a cleanup project for much of the day, but I turned up a site that claims to have obtained information from FreeRice.com, from kids apparently testing their vocabularies:

Warning: this can be quite addictive!

All numbers based on long grain white rice

Numbers should be considered approximate, not actual, as size of grains and other factors may vary.

The Numbers:

1 lb of rice = 29,000 grains
1 lb rice = 4 cups
29,000/4 = 7250
¼ cup = 7250/4 = 1812.50

An actual count of the number of rice grains in ¼ cup was around 2,000

According to the Totals page on the Free Rice website, the program started on October 7, 2007, and donations of rice grains through October 22 have totaled 164,650,960.

If we divide the number of grains by the number of grains in a pound, we get the number of pounds of rice donated to date.

164,650,960/29,000= 567.79 lbs of rice donated so far [[October 7 through October 22]]

Haven't confirmed yet that the donations are legitimate, but I'll bet they are -- it's been pretty good advertising so far and really pretty cheap. According to FreeRice, the total donated as of day's end yesterday: 5,541,225,910 grains = ~200,000 pounds. Of that total, over 100,000 pounds has been donated in the last two weeks, over 200,000,000 grains per day.

FreeRice.com sounds like a worthwhile site to promote, even if it may not end up feeding huddled masses. We can hope that hungry children are the principal beneficiaries of FreeRice.com -- it may be time for me to check out the legitimacy of the "Feed the Children" organization based in Oklahoma City. Might make a nice day trip sometime, with OKC being only about 100 miles away.

My recollection is that ~2000 calories is considered to be the caloric intake needed to maintain weight for the elusive average American adult, but the body weight of a "needy person" is likely to be considerably less than that of the average American. (Not necessarily, though, since there are a lot of fat poor people [not quite the same sense as poor fat people, is it?] in the United States because of a correspondingly poor diet.) I'll use 1200 to 1500 calories as a target intake, unless I find better information to use.

From what I've run across, a pound of rice provides anywhere from ~1600 to ~2200 calories. Using 1500 as the target caloric intake each day, you provided ~15 days of food for one person at 2200 calories/pound of rice, and ~11 days at 1600 calories/pound. Using 1200 calories/day intake, you provided ~19 days on the high end and ~14 on the low end.

You had a good time, feel good about yourself, and no one had to push you into making a donation. I think it's a great marketing idea. Unless I find something objectionable later, we'll give FreeRice a boost. Why don't you post something to the forum, and I'll gen up something for In The News on the home page. I'll try to make it an attention grabber, not with words but with flash. I'll wait for your post to the forum so I can link to it from In the News.

When I recover a bit more from my excess physical activity, I'll give FreeRice a go. Sounds like a lot of people are enjoying it.

Regards,

"Irwin"

Source: Thai Food Composition Table (1999), Institute of Nutrition, Mahidol University:

Nutritional Information

Rice is an extremely healthy food for a number of reasons. Rice is a complex carbohydrate, which means that it contains starch and fiber.

Complex carbohydrates are digested slowly, allowing the body to utilize the energy released over a longer period which is nutritionally efficient.

Rice has low sodium content and contains useful quantities of potassium, the B vitamins, thiamin and niacin. An average portion of rice (50g) provide about 11% of the estimated average daily requirement of protein. One portion also has only 245 kcal. Those looking to reduce their fat and cholesterol intakes can turn to rice because it contain only a trace of fat and no cholesterol. Rice is also gluten free, so suitable for coeliacs, and it is easlily digested, and therefore a wonderful food for the very young and the elderly.

Rice is suitable for vegetarians and vegans, with brown rice in particular complementing vegetarian and vegan dishes.

Calories in White Rice Calories and Nutrition Facts

The complete milling and polishing that converts brown rice into white rice destroys 67% of the vitamin B3, 80% of the vitamin B1, 90% of thevitamin B6, half of the manganese, half of the phosphorus, 60% of the iron, and all of the dietary fiber and essential fatty acids.

FreeRice.com, Generosity or Scam?

November 21st, 2007 locilocisu

So I happen to come across this website, FreeRice.com. Reading through the FAQ and the many blog posts on this website [convinced] me that this website is nothing but an honest-to-goodness full fledge charity site, until I came across . . . this article, which might have a good point. After some further work and googling around, I present my findings. WFP, [t]he official receiver of the freerice.com fund has this to report. Stating that John Breen, founder of freerice.com has donated US$100,000

With almost 200 million grains being donated per day, the site's creator, John Breen has already handed a US$100,000 cheque to the Agency, which will help provide food rations for 26,000 Burmese refugees sheltering in Bangladesh.

And as of November 20th, FreeRice.com states that it has collected 3,059,177,080 grains of rice. There are approximately 50,000 grains of rice to a kilo, thus FreeRice should donate approximately 60 tonnes of rice. And let us assume that the price of rice is $190 per tonne (based on this website), thus 60 tonnes of rice would cost $11,400. John Breen has donated $100,000 which is significantly above $11,400, I would conclude that this person, although he "might" gain . . . some profit from his website . . . is truly generous.

----- Original Message -----

From: marty@xxxxx.xxx

To: irwin@xxxxx.xxx

Sent: Sunday, December 02, 2007 12:55 AM

Subject: Re: Adventures in Oklahoma

This email and the copies of those sent to Paul tells me that you've had a lot of challenges to be "amused" about. But I can picture you humming contentedly away as you rev your mind up to warp speed to address them. (Hey -- that mental image just now caused to pop up. . . .)

Thanks for the homophone link, but when I click on it, the blog message is "site not found." Guess you'll have to send me the secret password as well.

My diversions haven't been as challenging. Watching college football games is a mindless enterprise and always rooting for the underdog makes for a simple approach to maintaining interest.

I did find a website that's been pleasurable. FreeRice.com is a vocabulary game that claims to earn 20 - 100 grains of rice for every word meaning you identify correctly. Supposedly, the rice is then collectively shipped to needy people throughout the world. It's a great test for vocabulary -- if the rice part is real, you can feel that your efforts are adding something concretely beneficial as well. I spent the good part of one evening committed to earning 30,000 grains. However, I must turn to your left-brained skills to determine whether that quantity was sufficient for a family's weekly needs or merely a few meals for one. How many grains of rice in an pound? If you decide to check out its authenticity, and find it truly a good cause, do you think the pd could promote the link on our site? We'd be helping our members expand their vocabulary and fighting world hunger as well. (Sounds too good to be true?)

Work at the office is now in overdrive with the year end barreling at us. Have gotten into a bit of a fog with the additional music and lyrics of the play and have set them aside for a sunnier day.

The summer property work is almost shut down as the cold sets in (the contractor will at least attempt to get the concrete footers poured, hopefully this week). Am settling into the traditional malaise as the busy holidays approach, the most upsetting aspect is the awareness of another birthday coming up in a few months and noting that not much has been accomplished, except the too rapid passage of time, since the last one. But I am thankful for all that I do have -- a loving family, good friends, passably good health, most of my teeth, enough hair to comb, a discerning (albeit somewhat too aggressive) appetite and a cranky but effective ability to laugh at myself and the situation whenever it's necessary.

I hope Mandy continues to do well, that you both have the incentive and opportunity to get out and enjoy the things that give you pleasure. The holidays will be upon us before we know it!

Many pleasant thoughts across the miles,

Marty

Labels: free rice, vocabulary

Re: Adventures in Oklahoma

There was problem with the previous hyperlink because I had updated with a new post, changing the web page address. I've re-entered the post to make a hyperlink that looks like the original one work: Homophones and near-homophones.

Regards,

"Irwin"

Labels: homonym, homophone

Homophones and near-homophones.

The table below includes words from many lists of homonyms and homophones. Alan Cooper's Homonym List remains the ne plus ultra of such word lists and is the primary source for the words.

In general, I have left off alternative endings of base words (-s, -es, -ed, -ing, -ion, etc.) unless the extra letters result in homonyms that don't come up with the base word. For example, there's a row with ad and add, and also a row with, adds, ads, adz, and adze. Unless I have slipped up, the words appear in alphabetic order from top to bottom and from left to right.

As a usual practice, I've not bothered with alternative spellings of a given word. There are occasional exceptions -- such as adz and adze, and auntie and aunty. A few proper nouns are also included, primarily because they were given as homophones on sites I visited.

I'm not a big fan of Merriam Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, but I think I'll go along with some definitions from the 11th Edition:

homonym 1 c : one of two or more words spelled and pronounced alike but different in meaning (as the noun quail and the verb quail )

homophone 1 : one of two or more words pronounced alike but different in meaning or derivation or spelling (as the words to, too, two)

2 : a character or group of characters pronounced the same as another character or group.

While some dictionaries treat homonym and homophone as synonyms, I prefer this distinction for now: Homonyms may sound alike, while homophones are pronounced exactly the same -- or almost exactly the same.

The words grouped in yellow rows in the table below were on someone's list of homonyms, but I'm not convinced that all of the words in the groups sound sufficiently alike to be considered homophones. Those groups were moved from the primary list of homophones to the yellow list (yellow=caution) for special consideration. (Reminder to self: Google <sound-alikes> to find more words to add to the list. Possibly generate a separate list of confusables [confusibles?]. Is there a "rule" for using -able as a suffix rather than -ible?)

One thing I have concluded from this little amuse-myself exercise: The region of the country you're from affects what you consider to be words that sound alike. For instance, I was a bit put off when I first saw that whale was on some lists as a homophone (or homonym) for wail and wale. Not a homophone to my ear. But when I checked a couple of dictionary sites, I found that dropping the h sound was considered to be an acceptable alternative pronunciation.

I moved allusion, elusion, and illusion from the primary list to the yellow list mostly because of allusion. I don't see the ə (upside down e) (about, item, edible, gallop, circus) as being the same as the ĕ (short e) of pet or the ĭ (short i) of pit. I'll probably end up accepting the ĕ (short e) and ĭ (short i) as sufficiently homophonic in separate syllables to have an entry in the main table for elusion and illusion. I won't carry that too far, though; otherwise I might feel obliged to treat pet and pit as homophones, as well as pen and pin, etc. Doing that could make the list unmanageably long.

No doubt I'll end up being idiosyncratic about the words I consider to be homophones. That's because my choices will be based largely on how I have heard them pronounced all my life -- a unique combination of saying and hearing experienced only by me. Still, I'll list words as homophones if I find the same pronunciation for them in a reputable dictionary. That is, I won't rely just on what I hear and on my biases; I'll also refer to character-defined pronunciations and pronunciation keys in dictionaries.

I'm not making any promises that I will look up every word considered for my list: Access and excess may be confusing to someone for whom English is not her native language. Nevertheless, the words do not sound the same -- unless they're said by someone with a mouthful (or mouth full) of mush.

One word of particular interest to me from other lists was knick. Perhaps that's an acceptable alternative spelling of nick, but I didn't find it at either m-w.com or dictionary.com. If I had looked further, I might have found it's a real word. ("No definitions of knick were found in English.") I included the plural form in recognition of the New York Knicks basketball team, and in the process pulled in the additional word nix. I also violated my general rule and listed knickers and nickers, rather than knicker and nicker. Chalk it up as an idiosyncracy, if you will, but there's a rather obvious reason for my choice.

Double click on a word to see its definition and pronunciation. Using the script I ran across to do that may not fall under fair use provisions of copyright law. If this turns out to be anything other than a more or less private site, I may have to disable the feature. . . .

Rats ass, I have no idea why the table displays so far below this, but it's there if you look long enough. Just keep scrolling until you find it. I also have no idea why the blog description moves up after the Answers.com pop-up window displays. (The display problem can be cleared up by a page refresh.)

I'm a stickler about details, but am I enough of a nitpicker to try to get around these glitches? Probably not. . . . Then again. . . . It looks as if there might be an extra line feed for each row in the table. If so, that shouldn't be too hard to fix. . . . Yep, that was it, a result of the Convert line breaks option I chose as a formatting setting. The screwed-up version can be found below for now.

1	Carie	carry
2	Ceres	series
3	Chile	chili	chilly
4	Claus	clause	claws
5	Crays	craze
6	Euler	oiler
7	Flo	floe	flow
8	Harold	herald
9	Hays	haze
10	Knicks	nicks	nix
11	Mary	marry	merry
12	Mays	maize	maze
13	Mrs.	misses
14	Pistel	pistil	pistol
15	Pole	pole	poll
16	Sioux	sou	sue
17	Thai	tie
18	Wacs	wax	whacks
19	Whig	wig
20	a	eh
21	acclamation	acclimation
22	acts	ax
23	ad	add
24	adds	ads	adz	adze
25	ade	aid	aide
26	adherence	adherents
27	admittance	admittants
28	adolescence	adolescents
29	aerie	airy
30	aero	arrow
31	aids	aides	AIDS
32	ail	ale
33	air	heir
34	aisle	I'll	isle
35	ait	ate	eight
36	all	awl
37	allowed	aloud
38	altar	alter
39	an	Ann
40	analyst	annalist
41	ant	aunt
42	ante	anti	auntie	aunty
43	apatite	appetite
44	appose	oppose
45	ar	are
46	arc	ark
47	ascent	assent
48	assistance	assistants
49	attendance	attendants
50	auger	augur
51	aught	ought
52	aural	oral
53	auricle	oracle
54	away	aweigh
55	awed	odd
56	awful	offal
57	ax	axe	acts?
58	axel	axil	axle
59	axes	axis
60	aye	eye	I
61	bad	bade
62	bail	bale
63	bailee	bailey	bailie
64	bailer	bailor	baler
65	bait	bate
66	baize	bays	beys
67	bald	balled	bawled
68	ball	bawl
69	balm	bomb
70	band	banned
71	bands	banns	bans
72	bard	barred
73	bare	bear
74	bark	barque
75	basal	basil
76	base	bass
77	based	baste
78	bask	basque
79	bat	batt
80	baud	bawd
81	bay	bey
82	bazaar	bizarre
83	be	bee
84	beach	beech
85	bean	been
86	beat	beet
87	beau	bow
88	beaut	butte
89	beer	bier
90	beetle	betel
91	bel	Bel	bell	belle
92	belligerence	belligerents
93	benzene	benzine
94	berg	burg
95	berger	burger	burgher
96	berry	bury
97	berth	birth
98	better	bettor
99	bight	bite	byte
100	billed	build
101	bird	burd	burred
102	bit	bitt
103	bizarre	bazaar
104	blend	blende
105	blew	blue
106	bloat	blote
107	bloc	block
108	boar	Boer	bore
109	board	bored
110	boarder	border
111	bocks	box
112	bode	bowed
113	bogey	bogie	bogy
114	bold	bolled	bowled
115	bolder	boulder
116	bole	boll	bowl
117	boos	booze
118	bootee	bootie	booty
119	born	borne	bourn	bourne
120	borough	burro	burrow
121	bough	bow
122	boy	buoy
123	bra	braw
124	brae	bray
125	braid	brayed
126	brain	brane
127	braise	brays	braze
128	brake	break
129	breach	breech
130	bread	bred
131	brede	breed
132	brews	bruise
133	bridal	bridle
134	broach	brooch
135	brood	brewed
136	brows	browse
137	brr	burr
138	buccal	buckle
139	bundt	bunt
140	burger	burgher
141	bus	buss
142	bussed	bust
143	but	butt
144	buy	by	bye
145	buyer	byre
146	cache	cash
147	cachou	cashew
148	calendar	calender
149	calix	calyx
150	call	caul	cawl	col
151	caller	collar
152	callous	callus
153	cam	Kam
154	can't	cant
155	canape	canopy
156	cane	Cain
157	cannon	canon
158	canter	cantor
159	canvas	canvass
160	capital	capitol
161	carat	caret	carrot	karat
162	caries	carries
163	carol	carrel
164	carpal	carpel
165	cart	carte	kart
166	cask	casque
167	cast	caste
168	caster	castor
169	caudal	caudle
170	cause	caws
171	cay	key	quay
172	cedar	seeder
173	cede	seed
174	cee	sea	see
175	ceil	seal	seel
176	cel	cell	sell
177	cellar	seller
178	cense	cents	scents	sense
179	censer	censor	sensor
180	census	senses
181	cent	scent	sent
182	cents	scents	sense
183	cere	sear	seer	sere
184	cereal	serial
185	cession	session
186	chalk	chock
187	chance	chants
188	chard	charred
189	chary	cherry
190	chased	chaste
191	cheap	cheep
192	cheaper	cheeper
193	check	Czech
194	chews	choose
195	chic	sheik
196	chili	chilly	Chile
197	choir	quire
198	choler	collar
199	choral	coral
200	chorale	corral
201	chord	cord	cored
202	chordate	cordate
203	chott	shot	shott
204	chough	chuff
205	chronical	chronicle
206	chute	shoot
207	cirrus	serous
208	cite	sight	site
209	clack	claque
210	clause	claws
211	clew	clue
212	click	clique	klick
213	climb	clime
214	close	clothes
215	coal	kohl
216	coaled	cold
217	coarse	corse	course
218	coat	cote
219	coax	cokes
220	cocks	cox	Cox
221	coddling	codling
222	coffer	cougher
223	coign	coin	quoin
224	collard	collared
225	colonel	kernel
226	come	cum
227	competence	competents
228	complacence	complaisance
229	complacent	complaisant
230	complement	compliment
231	conceded	conceited
232	conch	conk
233	concord	conquered
234	continence	continents
235	coo	coup
236	coop	coupe
237	copes	copse
238	copped	copt
239	coquet	coquette
240	core	corps
241	correspondence	correspondents
242	cosher	kosher
243	cosign	cosine
244	coulee	coolie	coolly
245	council	counsel
246	councillor	counselor
247	cousin	cozen
248	coward	cowered	cowherd
249	craft	kraft
250	crape	crepe
251	crater	krater
252	creak	creek
253	crewed	crude
254	crewel	cruel
255	crews	cruise	crus	cruse
256	cubical	cubicle
257	cubit	qubit
258	cue	Kew	que	queue
259	currant	current
260	curser	cursor
261	cygnet	signet
262	cymbal	symbol
263	dam	damn
264	dawn	don
265	days	daze
266	dean	dene
267	dear	deer
268	deem	deme
269	delinquence	delinquents
270	dense	dents
271	dental	dentil
272	dependence	dependents
273	descent	dissent
274	deviance	deviants
275	deviser	divisor
276	dew	do	due
277	dewed	dude
278	die	dye
279	dine	dyne
280	dire	dyer
281	disc	disk
282	discreet	discrete
283	discussed	disgust
284	dissidence	dissidents
285	djinn	gin	jinn
286	do	doe	dough
287	doc	dock
288	does	doughs	doze
289	done	dun	Dunne
290	donjon	dungeon
291	dost	dust
292	draft	draught
293	dram	drachm
294	dray	drey
295	droop	drupe
296	dual	duel
297	ducked	duct
298	dyeing	dying
299	e'er	ere	err
300	earn	erne	urn
301	eave	eve
302	elicit	illicit
303	emerge	immerge
304	eminent	immanent	imminent
305	ensure	insure
306	epic	epoch
307	equivalence	equivalents
308	erupt	irrupt
309	eunuchs	Unix
310	ewe	yew	you
311	ewes	use	yews
312	existence	existents
313	eyed	I'd	ide
314	eyelet	islet
315	facts	fax
316	faille	file	phial
317	fain	fane	feign
318	faint	feint
319	fair	fare
320	fairy	ferry
321	faker	fakir
322	farrow	pharaoh
323	fate	fete
324	faun	fawn
325	faux	foe
326	fay	Faye	fey
327	fays	faze	phase
328	fear	fere
329	feat	feet
330	fends	fens
331	fern	firn
332	ferule	ferrule
333	feted	fetid
334	feudal	futile
335	few	phew
336	fills	fils
337	filter	philter
338	find	fined
339	finish	Finnish
340	fir	fur
341	fisher	fissure
342	flacks	flax
343	flair	flare
344	flea	flee
345	flecks	flex
346	flew	flu	flue
347	flocks	phlox
348	floe	flow
349	flour	flower
350	foaled	fold
351	for	fore	four
352	forbear	forebear
353	forego	forgo
354	foreword	forward
355	fort	forte
356	forth	fourth
357	foul	fowl
358	fraid	frayed
359	franc	frank
360	frays	phrase
361	frees	freeze	frieze
362	friar	fryer
363	fungous	fungus
364	furs	furze
365	fussed	fust
366	gaff	gaffe
367	gage	gauge
368	gait	gate
369	galley	gally
370	gallop	galop
371	gamble	gambol
372	gang	gangue
373	gays	gaze
374	gel	jell
375	gene	jean
376	gibe	jibe
377	gild	gilled	guild
378	gilt	guilt
379	glair	glare
380	glutenous	glutinous
381	gnaw	naw
382	gneiss	nice
383	gnomic	nomic
384	gnu	knew	new	nu
385	gnus	news
386	goaled	gold
387	god	gaud
388	gored	gourd
389	gorilla	guerrilla
390	grade	grayed
391	graft	graphed
392	grate	great
393	grays	graze
394	grease	Greece
395	greave	grieve
396	grill	grille
397	grip	grippe
398	grisly	gristly	grizzly
399	groan	grown
400	grocer	grosser
401	guessed	guest
402	guide	guyed
403	guise	guys
404	gunnel	gunwale
405	gym	Jim
406	hail	hale
407	hair	hare
408	hairier	harrier
409	hairy	harry
410	hale	hail
411	hall	haul
412	halve	have
413	handsome	hansom
414	hangar	hanger
415	hardy	hearty
416	hart	heart
417	hay	hey
418	he'd	heed
419	he'll	heal	heel	hill
420	hear	here
421	heard	herd
422	heigh	hi	hie	high
423	heroin	heroine
424	hertz	hurts
425	hew	hue	Hugh
426	hide	hied
427	higher	hire
428	him	hymn
429	hoar	hoer	whore
430	hoard	horde	whored
431	hoarse	horse
432	hoe	ho
433	hoes	hos	hose
434	hold	holed
435	hole	whole
436	holey	holy	wholly
437	hoop	whoop
438	hostel	hostile
439	hour	our
440	humerus	humorous
441	hurdle	hurtle
442	idle	idol	idyl	idyll
443	ileum	ilium
444	impassable	impassible
445	impatience	impatiens
446	in	inn
447	inc	ink
448	incidence	incidents
449	incite	insight
450	independence	independents
451	indict	indite
452	indigence	indigents
453	innocence	innocents
454	instance	instants
455	intense	intents
456	it's	its
457	jam	jamb
458	jewel	joule
459	jinks	jinx
460	juggler	jugular
461	knap	nap
462	knave	nave
463	knead	need	kneed
464	knickers	nickers
465	knight	night	nite
466	knit	nit
467	knob	nob
468	knock	nock
469	knot	naught	not
470	know	no	Noh
471	knows	no's	noes	nose
472	laager	lager
473	lac	lack
474	lacks	lax
475	ladder	latter
476	lain	lane
477	lair	layer
478	lam	lamb
479	lama	llama
480	laps	lapse
481	lase	lays	laze	leis
482	laser	lazar
483	lay	lei	ley
484	lea	lee	Li
485	leach	leech
486	lead	led
487	leader	lieder	liter
488	leaf	lief
489	leak	leek
490	lean	lien
491	leased	least
492	lends	lens
493	lessen	lesson
494	lesser	lessor
495	levee	levy
496	liable	libel
497	liar	lyre
498	lichen	liken
499	licker	liquor
500	lickerish	licorice
501	lie	lye
502	lieu	loo	Lou
503	lightening	lightning
504	limb	limn
505	linch	lynch
506	links	lynx
507	literal	littoral
508	lo	low
509	load	lode	lowed
510	loan	lone
511	loch	lock
512	lochs	locks	lox
513	loon	lune
514	loop	loupe
515	loos	lose
516	loot	lute
517	mach	mock
518	made	maid
519	magnate	magnet
520	mail	male
521	main	mane
522	male	mail
523	mall	maul	mawl	moll
524	manner	manor
525	marc	mark	marque
526	marquee	marquis
527	marshal	marshall	martial
528	massed	mast
529	me	mi
530	mean	mien
531	meat	meet	mete
532	medal	meddle	metal	mettle
533	men's	mends
534	mewl	mule
535	mews	muse
536	might	mite
537	mince	mints
538	mind	mined
539	miner	minor
540	missal	missile
541	missed	mist
542	moan	mown
543	moat	mote
544	mode	mowed
545	moiré	moray
546	moo	moue
547	mood	mooed
548	moor	more	mower
549	moose	mousse
550	moral	morel
551	morn	mourn
552	muscle	mussel
553	mussed	must
554	mustard	mustered
555	naval	navel
556	nay	nee	neigh
557	neep	neap
558	none	nun
559	o	oh	owe
560	oar	o'er	or	ore
561	odder	otter
562	ode	owed
563	one	won
564	oohs	ooze
565	ordinance	ordnance
566	overdo	overdue
567	overseas	oversees
568	paced	paste
569	packed	pact
570	paean	peon
571	pail	pale
572	pain	pane
573	pair	pare	payer	pear
574	palate	palette	pallet	pallette
575	pall	Paul	pawl
576	parish	perish
577	parity	parody
578	passable	passible
579	passed	past
580	patience	patients
581	pause	paws
582	pea	pee
583	peace	piece
584	peak	peek	pique
585	peal	peel
586	pearl	Perl	purl
587	peas	pease	pees
588	pedal	peddle	petal
589	peer	pier
590	pencel	pencil	pensil
591	pend	penned
592	pendant	pendent
593	pends	pens
594	penitence	penitents
595	per	purr
596	petit	petty
597	petrel	petrol
598	phosphorous	phosphorus
599	pi	pie
600	pica	pika
601	picks	pix	pyx
602	picnic	pyknic
603	pidgin	pigeon
604	pieced	piste
605	pincher	pinscher
606	pinion	pinon
607	place	plaice
608	plain	plane
609	plait	plate
610	planar	planer
611	plantar	planter
612	pleas	please
613	pleural	plural
614	plough	plow
615	plum	plumb
616	pocks	pox
617	polar	poler
618	pole	poll
619	policlinic	polyclinic
620	politic	politick
621	poor	pore	pour
622	populace	populous
623	port	Porte
624	praise	prays	preys
625	pray	prey
626	precedence	precedents	presidents
627	presence	presents
628	pride	pried
629	prier	prior	pryer
630	pries	prise	prize
631	prince	prints
632	principal	principle
633	profit	prophet
634	pros	prose
635	psalter	salter
636	psi	sigh
637	pupal	pupil
638	puttee	putty
639	quarts	quartz
640	quean	queen
641	quince	quints
642	rabbet	rabbit
643	rack	wrack
644	racket	racquet
645	radical	radicle
646	rail	rale
647	rain	reign	rein
648	raise	rays	raze
649	raiser	razor
650	rancor	ranker
651	rap	wrap
652	rapped	rapt	wrapped
653	ray	re
654	read	red
655	read	rede	reed
656	real	reel
657	recede	reseed
658	receipt	reseat
659	reck	wreck
660	recks	rex	wrecks
661	reek	wreak
662	reference	referents
663	rends	wrens
664	residence	residents
665	resinate	resonate
666	resisters	resistors
667	rest	wrest
668	retch	wretch
669	review	revue
670	rheum	room
671	rheumy	roomie	roomy
672	rho	roe	row
673	rhumb	rum
674	rhyme	rime
675	rigger	rigor
676	right	rite	wright	write
677	ring	wring
678	rise	ryes
679	road	rode	rowed
680	roam	Rome
681	roc	rock
682	roe	row
683	roil	royal
684	role	roll
685	rood	rude	rued
686	roomer	rumor
687	root	route
688	rose	rows
689	rot	wrought
690	rote	wrote
691	rough	ruff
692	rouse	rows
693	rout	route
694	roux	rue
695	rowed	rode	road
696	rues	ruse
697	rung	wrung
698	rye	wry
699	sac	sack
700	sachet	sashay
701	sacks	sax
702	sail	sale
703	sane	seine
704	saver	savor
705	sawed	sod
706	scarf	scarph
707	scene	seen
708	scents	sense
709	scull	skull
710	sea	see
711	seal	seel
712	seam	seem
713	seamen	semen
714	sear	seer
715	seas	sees	seize
716	season	seisin	seizin
717	sects	sex
718	seek	Sikh
719	serf	surf
720	serge	surge
721	set	sett
722	sew	so	soe	sow
723	sewer	suer
724	shake	sheik
725	she'll	shill
726	shear	sheer
727	sheave	shiv
728	shew	show
729	shier	shyer	shire
730	shoe	shoo
731	shone	shown
732	shudder	shutter
733	sic	sick
734	sics	six
735	side	sighed
736	sigher	sire
737	sighs	size
738	sign	sine
739	sink	sync	synch
740	slay	sleigh
741	sleave	sleeve
742	sleight	slight
743	slew	slough	slue
744	sloe	slow
745	soar	sore
746	soared	sword
747	socks	sox
748	sol	sole	soul
749	solace	soulless
750	sold	soled	souled
751	some	sum
752	son	sun
753	soot	suit
754	sordid	sorted
755	spade	spayed
756	spoor	spore
757	staff	staph
758	staid	stayed
759	stair	stare
760	stake	steak
761	statice	status
762	stationary	stationery
763	steal	steel
764	step	steppe
765	stile	style
766	stoop	stoup
767	storey	story
768	straight	strait
769	succor	sucker
770	suede	swayed
771	suite	sweet
772	summary	summery
773	sundae	Sunday
774	tacet	tacit
775	tach	tack
776	tacked	tact
777	tacks	tax
778	tail	tale
779	tailer	tailor
780	taper	tapir
781	tare	tear
782	tarry	terry
783	taught	taut
784	taupe	tope
785	taut	taught
786	tea	tee	ti
787	team	teem
788	tear	tier
789	teas	tease	tees
790	tenner	tenor
791	tense	tents
792	tern	terne	turn
793	ternary	turnery
794	the	thee
795	their	there	they're
796	threw	through
797	throe	throw
798	throne	thrown
799	thyme	time
800	tic	tick
801	tidal	title
802	tier	tire	tyer
803	tighten	titan
804	timber	timbre
805	to	too	two
806	toad	toed	towed
807	tocsin	toxin
808	toe	tow
809	toke	toque
810	told	tolled
811	tole	toll
812	ton	tonne	tun
813	tongue	tung
814	tool	tulle
815	toon	tune
816	tor	tore
817	tort	torte
818	tough	tuff
819	toughed	tuft
820	tracked	tract
821	tray	trey
822	troop	Troup	troupe
823	trooper	trouper
824	trussed	trust
825	tucks	tux
826	udder	utter
827	undo	undue
828	vail	vale	veil
829	vain	vane	vein
830	valance	valence
831	valiance	valiants
832	variance	variants
833	vellum	velum
834	veracious	voracious
835	verdure	verger
836	verses	versus
837	vial	vile	viol
838	vice	vise
839	villain	villein
840	viscous	viscus
841	wade	weighed
842	wail	wale	whale
843	wain	wane	Wayne
844	waist	waste
845	wait	weight
846	waive	wave
847	walk	wok
848	want	won't	wont
849	war	wore
850	ward	warred
851	ware	wear	where
852	warn	worn
853	warrantee	warranty?
854	warship	worship
855	wart	wort
856	wary	wherry
857	watt	what
858	wax	whacks
859	way	weigh	whey
860	we	wee
861	we'd	weed
862	we'll	weal	wheal	wheel
863	we're	weir
864	we've	weave
865	weak	week
866	weald	wheeled	wield
867	wean	ween
868	wear	where
869	weather	wether	whether
870	weld	welled
871	wen	when	whin	win
872	were	whir
873	wet	whet
874	which	witch
875	while	wile
876	whiled	wild
877	whine	wine
878	whined	wind	wined
879	whirled	whorled	world
880	whirred	word
881	whit	wit
882	white	wight	wite
883	whither	wither
884	who's	whose
885	whoa	woe
886	why	wye
887	whys	wise
888	winds	wins
889	won't	wont
890	wood	would
891	worst	wurst
892	y'all	yawl
893	yack	yak
894	yoke	yolk
895	yore	your	you're
896	you'll	yule
1001	accede	exceed
1002	accel	excel
1003	accent	ascent
1004	accept	except
1005	addition	edition
1006	advice	advise
1007	affect	effect
1008	allude	elude
1009	allusion	elusion	illusion
1010	allusive	elusive	illusive
1011	amend	emend
1012	arrant	errant
1013	aureole	oriole
1014	barrel	beryl
1015	bases	basis	basses
1016	been	bin
1017	bergle	burgle
1018	besot	besought
1019	bobbin	bobbing
1020	bouillon	bullion
1021	broom	brougham
1022	caught	cot
1023	comedy	comity
1024	deference	difference
1025	defuse	diffuse
1026	depravation	deprivation
1027	disburse	disperse
1028	dowager	dowitcher
1029	extravagance	extravagants
1030	fail	faille
1031	ferrate	ferret
1032	fill	faille
1033	finally	finely
1034	floor	fluor
1035	formally	formerly
1036	gnawed	nod
1037	gorgeous	gorges
1038	guarantee	guaranty
1039	hallo	hallow
1040	hammock	hummock
1041	inequity	iniquity
1042	ingenuous	ingenious
1043	lineament	liniment
1044	picture	pitcher
1045	plaintiff	plaintive
1046	popery	potpourri
1047	roar	rower
1048	shore	sure
1049	stalk	stock
1050	surplice	surplus
1051	talesman	talisman
1052	tends	tens
1053	tenser	tensor
1054	therefor	therefore
1055	trader	traitor
1056	vary	very
1057	virtu	virtue

Feedback on including or removing words from the table is welcome -- just be gentle with me. I make no claim to being a word maven, just a word lover.

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