<div dir="auto">I like Beth’s idea of multiple solutions. Quoll is the only one-syllable word. Quolls also have polka dots which is totally cool in itself. </div><div dir="auto">Nora</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, May 4, 2023 at 7:47 PM Beth Bruch <<a href="mailto:beth.bruch@gmail.com">beth.bruch@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)"><div dir="auto"><div>That's cool and actually really interesting, but I'd argue it's not a unique solution to the puzzle: Wombat is the only one where every letter appears only once. Also wombats are really cute, and significantly less likely than koalas to bite your nose.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">How many other solutions are there?</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">:-)</div></div><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Beth<br><br><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Apr 23, 2023, 12:57 PM Pierre Abbat <<a href="mailto:phma@leaf.dragonflybsd.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">phma@leaf.dragonflybsd.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)">On Sunday, April 23, 2023 12:25:33 PM EDT Ranjit Bhatnagar wrote:<br>
> My guess: bandicoot is the only one whose name isn't from an Australian<br>
> language.<br>
<br>
Correct: it's from Dravidian and originally referred to a rodent, now called <br>
the bandicoot rat. All the other words are of Australian origin.<br>
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Pierre<br>
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The gostak pelled at the fostin lutt for darfs for her martle plave.<br>
The darfs had smibbed, the lutt was thale, and the pilter had nothing snave.<br>
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</blockquote></div></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Nora Muñoz, MPA<br></div><div><i>she/her/ella</i></div><div><a href="mailto:nora@jaguarundi.com" target="_blank">nora@jaguarundi.com</a></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div>