* charade, façade, saccade, estrade, debarred, disbarred, discard, regard, petard, retard, ill-starred, jihad, glissade, bombard, en garde, rock-hard, pomade, roulade, * Jacquard, placard, scratchcard, vanguard, Ballard, mallard, Garrard, back yard, canard, Hansard, mansard, smart card, farmyard, barnyard, railcard, racecard, safeguard, graveyard, kaleyard, Maynard, Gerard, churchyard, rearguard, steelyard, Rickard, Liskeard, Fishguard, shipyard, brickyard, vineyard, Izzard, wild card, lifeguard, diehard, spikenard, fireguard, Lombard, Stoppard, Goddard, bollard, Lollard, Pollard, dockyard, stockyard, scorecard, courtyard, postcard, phonecard, Bogarde, coastguard, boatyard, boneyard, mudguard, junkyard, Coulthard, foulard, schoolyard, Cunard, * battle-scarred, Abelard, avant-garde, Savoyard, Everard, esplanade, credit card, self-regard, birthday card, Kierkegaard, greetings card, leotard, zindabad, Isambard, interlard, timberyard, Hilliard, milliard, disregard, Scotland Yard, promenade, bodyguard, Communard, boulevard, * Islamabad, * Allahabad, Faisalabad, Hyderabad, camelopard, fanfaronade, Marquis de Sade, rodomontade
No memory of having starred
Atones for later disregard,
Or keeps the end from being hard.
ROBERT FROST
3.9 barf, calf, chaff, graph, half, laugh, quaff, scarf, Scarfe, staff, strafe, * carafe, behalf, giraffe, Clontarf, * flagstaff, Metcalfe, headscarf, distaff, tipstaff, pikestaff, digraph, Falstaff, mooncalf, * tachograph, Van de Graaff, barograph, paragraph, shadowgraph, Cenotaph, stenograph, epitaph, epigraph, telegraph, Dictograph®, pictograph, lithograph, spirograph, micrograph, seismograph, Chinagraph®, logograph, holograph, homograph, chronograph, monograph, polygraph, quarterstaff, autograph, photograph, phonograph, * cardiograph, radiograph, ideograph, Mimeograph®, choreograph, * encephalograph
3.10 aft, barfed, chaffed, craft, daft, draft, draught, graft, haft, Kraft, laughed, quaffed, raft, shaft, staffed, waft, * abaft, unstaffed, redraft, engraft, * handcraft, crankshaft, camshaft, aircraft, statecraft, spacecraft, stagecraft, fieldcraft, priestcraft, lift shaft, kingcraft, witchcraft, drive shaft, mine shaft, swordcraft, downdraught, updraught, woodcraft, bushcraft, * handicraft, needlecraft, hovercraft, watercraft, overstaffed, photographed, overdraft, understaffed, Wollstonecraft
3.11 blague, Prague, * Camargue, Den Haag, * Reichstag, * Bundestag
3.12 barge, charge, hajj, large, marg, marge, raj, sarge, Taj, targe, * the Raj, recharge, enlarge, in charge, discharge, * surcharge, discharge, * turbocharge, countercharge, overlarge, overcharge, undercharge, supercharge
3.13 plage, raj, * the Raj, ménage, sondage, frottage, potage, montage, collage, corsage, * barrage, garage, massage, dressage, mirage, triage, * badinage, cabotage, sabotage, camouflage, arbitrage, décolletage, decoupage, reportage, persiflage, bricolage, bon voyage, entourage, curettage, fuselage, * espionage, photomontage, * counterespionage
3.14 Arles, Baal, Basle, Carl, Dahl, dhal, gnarl, Karl, kraal, marl, snarl, toile, * Natal, corral, morale, Jamal, Kemal, banal, unsnarl, timbale, halal, Chantal, Vidal, chorale, Bhopal, locale, * Transvaal, Stendahl, mistral, * femme fatale, pastorale, Albemarle, rationale, Parsifal, Taj Mahal, Heyerdahl, Emmenthal, Provençal, Provençale, * Neanderthal, Massif Central, Escorial, * Internationale, succès de scandale, entente cordiale
3.15 Arles, Charles, Karl’s, snarls, etc.
3.16 arm, balm, barm, calm, charm, farm, Guam, harm, ma’am, palm, psalm, qualm, smarm, * madame, alarm, salaam, unarm, rearm, embalm, becalm, imam, disarm, forearm, * yardarm, gendarme, napalm, wind farm, Islam, firearm, forearm, schoolmarm, * Notre Dame, overarm, underarm, * Dar es Salaam, Omar Khayyám
3.17 armed, calmed, charmed, farmed, harmed, * unarmed, unharmed, alarmed, rearmed, embalmed, becalmed, disarmed, forearmed
3.18 alms, arms, Brahms, farms, Glamis, palms, Psalms, qualms, * alarms, salaams, rearms, embalms, becalms, * gendarmes, wind farms, firearms, etc.
Ben Battle was a soldier bold,
And used to war’s alarms:
But a canon-ball took off his legs,
So he laid down his arms!
THOMAS HOOD
3.19 Arne, barn, darn, Hahn, Juan, khan, Khan, Marne, naan, Sian, tarn, yarn, * Pathan, pavane, Amman, McMahon, Hassan, Kazan, Aswan, Antoine, Tehran, élan, Vientiane, Tzigane, Iran, Gibran, Sichuan, Dayan, Taiwan, Koran, Don Juan, Osman, Oran, Oman, Qumran, Cwmbran, lucarne, Sudan, Bhutan, * astrakhan, Astrakhan, Abadan, Ramadan, Karajan, Kazakhstan, Pakistan, Dagestan, macedoine, Abidjan, Bantustan, Aga Khan, Rajasthan, Shah Jahan, Genghis Khan, Turkestan, Kyrgyzstan, Kurdistan, Isfahan, Christiaan, Lindisfarne, Hindustan, t’ai chi ch’uan, Omdurman, autobahn, Yucatán, Suleiman, Kublai Khan, * Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Azerbaijan, Baluchistan
3.20 blanch, Blanche, branch, ranch, stanch, tranche, * carte blanche, * avalanche
3.21 darned, * command, demand, remand, * reprimand, countermand
3.22 chance, dance, France, glance, lance, prance, stance, trance, Vance, aunts, chants, grants, plants, * askance, Provence, advance, perchance, enhance, entrance, mischance, faïence, * seance, freelance, off-chance, mumchance, nuance, * happenstance, ambience, Afrikaans, renaissance, Renaissance, circumstance, contredanse, * par excellence, * pièce de résistance
O body swayed to music, O brightening glance,
How can we know the dancer from the dance?
W. B. YEATS
3.23 aren’t, aunt, can’t, chant, grant, Grant, Nantes, plant, shan’t, slant, * supplant, aslant, transplant, détente, replant, implant, enchant, * transplant, ashplant, plainchant, eggplant, implant, house plant, * debutante, disenchant, commandant, confidante
3.24 Barnes, barns, darns, naans, Sian’s, tarns, yarns, * Afrikaans, Genghis Khan’s, etc.
3.25 Arp, carp, harp, scarp, sharp, Sharpe, tarp, * cardsharp, * razor-sharp, Polycarp
3.26 arse, baas, brass, class, farce, glass, grass, Mass, pass, sparse, * surpass, Madras, stained glass, third-class, first-class, volte-face, outclass, * impasse, smartarse, bypass, eyeglass, spyglass, wineglass, Snodgrass, knotgrass, hourglass, subclass, bluegrass, goosegrass, * gravitas, Stallybrass, galloglass, sparrowgrass, masterclass, second-class, Plexiglas®, working-class, middle-class, Khyber Pass, fibreglass, isinglass, overpass, underpass, upper-class, underclass, superclass, supergrass, coup de grâce, * snake in the grass
3.27 ask, bask, basque, Basque, cask, casque, flask, mask, masque, task, * unmask, * Monégasque, overtask, multitask
The trivial round, the common task,
Would furnish all we ought to ask.
JOHN KEBLE
3.28 asked, basked, masked, * unmasked, unasked, etc.
3.29 clasp, gasp, grasp, hasp, rasp, * unclasp
3.30 arsed, blast, cast, caste, classed, fast, grassed, karst, last, mast, passed, past, vast, * surpassed, aghast, avast, contrast, half-mast, recast, repast, miscast, dismast, outclassed, outlast, * rat-arsed, sandblast, mainmast, webcast, steadfast, Belfast, wormcast, precast, bypassed, flypast, typecast, contrast, topmast, forecast, broadcast, sportscast, foremast, outcast, downcast, stonecast, holdfast, roughcast, Buckfast, newscast, * flabbergast, narrowcast, hard and fast, Prendergast, telecast, simulcast, mizzenmast, Gormenghast, counterblast, overcast, opencast, unsurpassed, colourfast, * Elastoplast®
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