{"id":2573,"date":"1997-04-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1997-04-28T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/1997\/04\/28\/queen-comments\/"},"modified":"2018-01-14T10:24:34","modified_gmt":"2018-01-14T18:24:34","slug":"queen-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/1997\/04\/28\/queen-comments\/","title":{"rendered":"q: Off With Their Heads (Reader Comments)"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>Dobe suggests \"are &lt;\u2014 share,\" which brings up an extension or variation of the Queen's Game: beheading by two letters to produce a non-rhyming word. I'm not certain yet whether such two-letter beheadments are significantly more common than the one-letter version; so far I've only found a few:<\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>at &lt;\u2014 beat\/heat<\/li>\r\n  <li>cord &lt;\u2014 record<\/li>\r\n  <li>eat &lt;\u2014 great<\/li>\r\n  <li>me &lt;\u2014 name<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p>Of course, one could generalize further to allow removing any number of letters from the beginning of the word to produce a non-rhyming word, but I suspect that much expansion opens the field too wide.<\/p>\r\n<p>Jim Moskowitz found an expanded version of the beheadable sentence in Dmitri Borgmann's <cite>Language on Vacation<\/cite>:<\/p>\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<p>Show this bold Prussian that praises slaughter, slaughter brings rout. Teach this slaughter-lover his fall nears.<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<p>Which, of course, beheads to: \"How his old Russian hat raises laughter\u2014laughter rings out! Each, his laughter over, is all ears.\"<\/p>\r\n<hr \/>\r\n<p>(Last updated: 31 August 1997)<\/p>\r\n<hr \/>\r\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/1997\/04\/27\/queen\/\">Back to column q<\/a><\/p>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1-lowercase-1"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2573"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3172,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2573\/revisions\/3172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}