rated, sated, stated, waited, fainted, painted, sainted, tainted, tasted, waisted, wasted, favoured, flavoured, savoured, sacred, hatred, Hayward, Haywood, wayward, Aylward, wagered, * upbraided, upgraded, persuaded, unaided, unshaded, invaded, degraded, placated, truncated, updated, undated, unstated, frustrated, translated, serrated, X-rated, created, belated, elated, related, deflated, inflated, cremated, striated, outdated, located, unpainted, untainted, acquainted, hand-painted, untasted, high-waisted, ill-favoured, unflavoured, ill-natured, good-natured, * aggravated, castellated, saturated, antiquated, animated, laminated, vaccinated, calculated, variegated, glaciated, satiated, expurgated, mentholated, separated, decorated, dedicated, desiccated, elevated, celebrated, estimated, decimated, educated, regulated, perforated, herniated, dehydrated, elongated, relocated, syncopated, liberated, illustrated, dissipated, mitigated, irritated, titillated, pixilated, integrated, simulated, stimulated, violated, isolated, hyphenated, corrugated, long-awaited, consummated, constipated, complicated, consecrated, populated, overrated, overstated, unabated, suffocated, understated, untranslated, cultivated, unrelated, unacquainted, lubricated, fumigated, mutilated, * unsaturated, exaggerated, substantiated, emancipated, eradicated, elasticated, dilapidated, decapitated, contaminated, unvaccinated, infatuated, emaciated, unexpurgated, premeditated, uneducated, unregulated, unperforated, exhilarated, refrigerated, opinionated, affiliated, humiliated, sophisticated, unmitigated, corroborated, unconsummated, uncomplicated, unconsecrated, self-pollinated, incorporated, adulterated, uncultivated, communicated, illuminated, accumulated, * unsubstantiated, uncontaminated, superannuated, differentiated, unpremeditated, unappreciated, unaffiliated, unsophisticated, uncorroborated, overpopulated, underpopulated, uncoordinated, unadulterated, * polyunsaturated, monounsaturated, undifferentiated, etc.
Limericks
A limerick is a humorous five-line verse with a characteristic rhyming pattern, as shown in these examples:
There was a young lady named Bright,
Whose speed was far faster than light;
She set out one day
In a relative way
And returned on the previous night.
ARTHUR BULLER
An Anglican curate in want
Of a second-hand portable font
Will exchange for the same
A photo (with frame)
Of the Bishop-Elect of Vermont.
RONALD KNOX
It is allegedly so called because the line ‘Will you come up to Limerick?’ (referring to the place of that name in Ireland) was formerly used as a refrain for similar nonsense verses.
8.14 breakage, wastage, weighbridge, Weybridge, Cambridge, Bainbridge, drainage
8.15 Baal, Mayall, Abel, able, Babel, cable, fable, gable, label, Mabel, sable, stable, table, maple, papal, staple, Gaitskell, bagel, Hegel, plagal, Schlegel, cradle, ladle, fatal, natal, ratel, playful, wakeful, fateful, grateful, hateful, tasteful, wasteful, faithful, baleful, shameful, baneful, gainful, painful, graceful, changeful, Flavell, naval, navel, Wavell, April, sacral, wastrel, Bakewell, anal, basal, staysail, mainsail, hazel, Hazel, nasal, phrasal, facial, glacial, racial, spatial, Rachel, angel, * betrayal, defrayal, portrayal, unable, unstable, Clark Gable, relabel, enable, disable, cloacal, inveigle, finagle, prenatal, hiatal, nonfatal, postnatal, ungrateful, distasteful, unfaithful, disdainful, disgraceful, decanal, appraisal, abbatial, palatial, preglacial, biracial, nonracial, postglacial, archangel, * worktable, turntable, timetable, witch hazel, * antenatal, perinatal, neonatal, reappraisal, interracial, multiracial, * maxillofacial
8.16 abled, cabled, fabled, labelled, stapled, cradled, * unlabelled, enabled, disabled, etc.
8.17 gables, labels, tables, Naples, staples, Rachel’s, angels, etc.
8.18 paynim, * verbatim, * restrain him, hate him, etc.
8.19 Graham, Grahame, begum, sheikhdom, saintdom, datum, Tatum, Latham, Nahum, Salem, Abram, sacrum, eightsome, Hailsham, * vade mecum, petrolatum, ultimatum, simulacrum, * pay ’em, fail ’em, etc.
8.20 weigh-in, Sabin, tailspin, Aitken, snakeskin, Fagin, Palin, * Onegin, * riboflavin, * shapin’, misbehavin’, etc.
8.21 crayon, rayon, capon, bacon, Bacon, shaken, taken, waken, pagan, Reagan, Aden, Aidan, Blaydon, Braden, Gaydon, Haydon, laden, Leyden, maiden, Clayton, Dayton, Deighton, Drayton, greaten, Layton, Paton, Peyton, phaeton, Satan, straighten, straiten, Paignton, Maidstone, Avon, craven, graven, haven, raven, shaven, Nathan, Galen, apron, matron, patron, Bremen, cayman, Cayman, Damon, drayman, Eamon, Hayman, layman, Lehmann, baseman, statesman, tradesman, dalesman, salesman, gamesman, plainsman, Canaan, basin, caisson, chasten, Grayson, hasten, Jason, mason, Mason, Jameson, blazon, brazen, raisin, Asian, suasion, Cajun, Trajan, * Malayan, Ghanaian, Linnean, Pompeiian, misshapen, awaken, Jamaican, forsaken, unshaken, partaken, mistaken, Nijmegen, unshaven, O’Faolain, Marquesan, liaison, emblazon, occasion, pervasion, abrasion, persuasion, evasion, invasion, equation, dissuasion, Caucasian, Eurasian, contagion, * handmaiden, Newhaven, handbasin, Freemason, washbasin, stonemason, * Galilean, Eritrean, Himalayan, reawaken, godforsaken, overtaken, unmistaken, Copenhagen, overladen, Milford Haven, Venezuelan, diapason, dermabrasion, Australasian, * Kyrie eleison
8.22 Asian, Haitian, nation, station, Thracian
8.23 probation, gradation, collation, Galatian, conflation, Horatian, narration, serration, natation, lactation, plantation, salvation, stagflation, translation, castration, Dalmatian, stagnation, damnation, taxation, Alsatian, carnation, tarnation, starvation, aeration, vacation, claymation, temptation, gestation, cessation, vexation, sensation, purgation, flirtation, creation, Creation, deflation, reflation, predation, sedation, cetacean, dictation, legation, negation, elation, relation, inflation, filtration, cremation, fixation, striation, libation, citation, dilation, gyration, vibration, migration, titration, privation, oblation, prostration, oration, formation, causation, duration, foundation, Croatian, location, vocation, rogation, flotation, notation, potation, quotation, rotation, ovation, donation, truncation, crustacean, gustation, slumpflation, frustration, summation, pulsation, pupation, mutation, Eustachian
Praise with elation,
Praise every morning,
God’s re-creation
Of the new day.
ELEANOR FARJEON
8.24 approbation, masturbation, avocation, advocation, allocation, translocation, arrogation, abrogation, annotation, lamentation, fragmentation, aggravation, appellation, Appalachian, cancellation, flagellation, aberration, adoration, laceration, maceration, adumbration, affirmation, acclamation, adaptation, transplantation, affectation, attestation, annexation, palliation, abdication, mastication, application, fabrication, castigation, navigation, allegation, aggregation, abnegation, validation, habitation, capitation, palpitation, gravitation, sanitation, agitation, captivation, activation, salivation, vacillation, aspiration, transpiration, admiration, calibration, animation, marination, lamination, fascination, vaccination, machination, pagination, assignation, affixation, transmigration, transportation, malformation, transformation, blaxploitation, graduation, actuation, valuation, amputation, salutation, transmutation, tabulation, calculation, strangulation, adulation, granulation, maturation, saturation, adjuration, accusation, * exacerbation, extrapolation, collaboration, elaboration, evaporation, exasperation, exaggeration, amalgamation, retaliation, repatriation, expatriation, substantiation, emancipation, eradication, elastication, reapplication, prevarication, prefabrication, dilapidation, invalidation, cohabitation, decapitation, deactivation, reactivation,