Weekly Puzzle

'ERE'S LOOKING AT PEREGRINES

The string ERE can be pronounced at least four different ways: "air" in WHERE, "ear" in HERE, "er" in WERE and "air-uh" in PEREGRINE. Name a string of four letters that can be pronounced five different ways. The catch? All five pronunciations can be found in five-letter words.

E-mail solutions to notjustscrabble@gmail.com to receive fame and acclaim.

Answer to Previous Puzzle:

Combinations of two or three letters that, pronounced out loud, form women's names:

AD Ady (short for Adeline), BB Bebe, BD Bedie (Irish, short for Bedelia), CC Cece, CL Ciel, DD Deede, ED Edy/Edie, EV Evie, GG Gigi, KC Casey, LN Ellen, LE Elly/Ellie, LC Elsie, ME Emmy, ML Emel (German form of Amelia), MLE Emily, IV Ivy, JC Jacey (short for Jacanda, Greek) or Jaycee (American), JL Jaelle, KT Katie, REL Arielle, SE Essie

And the winner is .

Despite travesties of wordplay like trying to pass off STL as Estelle and JN as a "Southern American pronunciation" of Jan, Horatiomar Stevenson B'05 squeaked by with eleven legit entries to become the official Scramblypants Of The Week. All hail Horatiomar!

Special props to those who trumped the Puzzlemistress by sending in solutions I never would have thought of, such as Io (the world's first cowgirl), Esen (a Turkish name) and Lluvy (the name of a recently-ousted contestant on America's Next Top Model 4). Kudos also to the surprising number of folks who felt the need to back up "Jaycee" with examples of famous Jaycees. I'm sure 1996 Olympic gymnast Jaycie Phelps and suspense writer Jaycee Clark would be proud to know they sprung to mind, though Matrix II and III actress Essie Davis might have felt a bit slighted.

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