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BNC
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I start with the letter E,
I end with the letter E.
I contain only one letter,
Yet I am not the letter E!
What am I?
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How about supercalifragilisticexpialidociouspuzzler [Towr, 2007]
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Dudidu
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Re: One letter
« Reply #1 on: Oct 19th, 2003, 6:45am » |
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Maybe I'm an Eye 
(or maybe I'm not so good with this kind of riddles  ).
Surely, I'm not so good with this kind of riddles !!!
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Speaker
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Re: One letter
« Reply #2 on: Oct 19th, 2003, 6:00pm » |
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I posted the answer. 
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BNC
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Re: One letter
« Reply #3 on: Oct 19th, 2003, 10:31pm » |
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Speaker, I just received your answer.
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aero_guy
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Re: One letter
« Reply #4 on: Oct 20th, 2003, 3:59am » |
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Took me a sec to get the clue, Speaker. American vs British English and all. You really push the edge of it with your hints.
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Re: One letter
« Reply #5 on: Oct 20th, 2003, 6:04pm » |
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Dear Dudidu,
You were almost there with your first guess. Continue with that line of thought and consider the other clues.
Sincerely
Speaker
PS Hints come in all shapes and sizes.
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Icarus
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Re: One letter
« Reply #6 on: Oct 21st, 2003, 3:55pm » |
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There is a second answer.
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And e is just as cursed.
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aero_guy
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Re: One letter
« Reply #7 on: Oct 22nd, 2003, 6:33am » |
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EEEEEE?
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Re: One letter
« Reply #9 on: Oct 22nd, 2003, 8:13pm » |
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towr's might be considered a third, but the one I was thinking of is similar to the intended answer.
Hint 1: My namesake would know it.
Hint 2: My real name, that is.
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Re: One letter
« Reply #10 on: Oct 22nd, 2003, 8:57pm » |
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It towr's answer is OK, then Dudidu's answer way at the top of the thread would be OK too.
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Re: One letter
« Reply #11 on: Oct 22nd, 2003, 9:13pm » |
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Yeah, I recalled that only after I posted, but didn't bother to go back and change it. While not the intended answer, they both can be said to meet the puzzle conditions, with only a little stretching.
My 2nd answer is less of a stretch, I think.
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maryl
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: "epistle" would work
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Re: One letter
« Reply #13 on: Oct 25th, 2003, 4:56pm » |
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That's it!
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TimMann
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Re: One letter
« Reply #14 on: Oct 25th, 2003, 9:24pm » |
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I object -- an epistle is a letter; it doesn't contain a letter. But now I finally understand what the intended answer was that you were all hinting at!
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Re: One letter
« Reply #15 on: Oct 26th, 2003, 7:01am » |
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how about ::envelope. Envelopes may not allways contain one letter, but perhaps this riddle is about a specific envelope that does contain exactly one letter::
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Wikipedia, Google, Mathworld, Integer sequence DB
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Re: One letter
« Reply #16 on: Oct 26th, 2003, 12:03pm » |
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on Oct 25th, 2003, 9:24pm, TimMann wrote:| I object -- an epistle is a letter; it doesn't contain a letter. But now I finally understand what the intended answer was that you were all hinting at! |
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I disagree. Language is fuzzy that way - a letter has content - i.e. it contains something. But its content is also referred to as being the letter. So an epistle, which is another name for a letter, contains itself.
And yes, envelope is the answer hinted at by Speaker.
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