Live and Learn English with Jean Lee

If you add two letters to GOAT and rearrange the result, you get another animal, AGOUTI — a tropical rodent. I'm going to name some other animals. For each one add two letters and scramble to name another animal.   1. BEAR + D & G 2. SEAL + E & W 3. COLT + E & O 4. COBRA + I & U 5. ANGORA + K & O 6. PEAHEN + L & T 7. MALLARD + I & O   An swer Keys     1.   badger     2.   weasel     3.   ocelot     4.   caribou     5.   kangaroo     6.   elephant     7.   armadillo

I'm going to give you some six-letter words. For each one change one consonant to a vowel to make another common, uncapitalized word. Which consonant you change is for you to discover. Ex. DEFE C T --> DEFE A T   1. STARCH   2. DENTAL   3. PRISON   4. WRIGHT   5. GRANGE   6. PHONEY   7. CASING (two answers) Answer Keys     1.   s e arch (t in ‘starch’ changes into e in ‘search’)     2.   den i al (t in ‘dental’ changes into I in ‘denial’)     3.   p o ison (r in ‘prison’ changes into o in ‘poison’)     4.   w e ight (r in ‘wright’ changes into e in ‘weight’)     5.   o range (g in ‘grange’ changes into o ‘orange’)     6.   pho o ey (n in ‘phoney’ changes into o in ‘phooey’)     7.   casin o (g in ‘casing’ changes into o in ‘casino) & e asing (c in ‘casing’ changes into e in ‘easing’)

Lunar new year is fast-approaching, and a lot of Asian countries are celebrating the lunar new year’s day with a traditional feast. What are you eating to celebrate the new year in your culture?   Have you heard or tried a dish called Hoppin’ John? It is a dish traditionally eaten in the southern United States on New Year’s Day. Hoppin’ John is mainly associated with North and South Carolina and Georgia. Historians believe that the recipe was created by people from _______________ who were enslaved; they had introduced black-eyed peas to America and grew them in small gardens on rice plantations. Dating back to the early 1800s, it is made with black-eye peas (a.k.a. cow peas), rice, and pork (in the form of bacon or ham). The meal can also include collard greens and corn bread. New Year’s Day is the traditional day to eat Hoppin’ John. Any leftovers can be enjoyed on later days, but be aware that the name of the dish changes to Skippin’ Jenny. Stretching the dish into leftovers...

Every answer today is a word that has somewhere inside it a common family name. I'll give you the family names and clues to the words. You tell me the words. Ex. RICE / Muscle of the upper arm --> T RICE PS   1. LANE / Earth or Mars 2. MARTIN / Hurting, as from a sting 3. WEST / Filled with astonishment 4. COOPER / Refusing to help, as in an investigation 5. CHANG / Hevenly being of a very high rank 6. ELLIS / Infernal 7. ROMAN / To oversee every single detail of   Answer Keys     1.   plane t     2.   s martin g      3.   a west ruck      4.   un cooper ative    5.    ar chang el    6.   H ellis h    7.   mic roman age