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I don't know if there's a word that covers this concept, but I think it's pretty interesting. Basically, some words are very similar to other words, if you adjust one letter. For instance, "Autopay" is only one letter away from "Autopsy", and the concepts are very different but in some way, seeing them so near each other makes a poetic bridge between the words. At least in my head. Or take the word "Analogy"--if you add an "r", it becomes "Analorgy", which is a very different concept. There's a similar (though different) example in T.S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock", where the line is "visions and revisions", which goes from grand prophecy into red ink on a term paper, linking the two concepts and drawing distinction between them. Or this guy I knew in high school wrote a poem which had the line "Love is evil, backwards and misspelled". Anyway, are there other interesting words that become other words either by adding or substituting a letter?
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now im gonna read autopsy as auto-psy every time
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Aug 13, 2017 14:10
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autop$y
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Aug 13, 2017 14:14
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bigamy is already both marrying someone when youre already married and a total burn on a fat girl named amy but what happens when you take off the b? 
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Aug 13, 2017 14:15
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no it isnt op
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Aug 13, 2017 14:17
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Soup du Journey posted:no it isnt op See, if I remove "nt" from "isnt", your sentence says "no it is op"
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Aug 13, 2017 14:24
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okay i get it now. i was thinking of a different word anyway
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Aug 13, 2017 14:29
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Slaughter is close to laughter and pronounced completely differently.
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Aug 13, 2017 15:26
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instresting
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Aug 13, 2017 15:52
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autopsyopmonkey. that's all i've got for this thread. thanks yall
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Aug 13, 2017 15:52
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A Strange Aeon posted:See, if I remove "nt" from "isnt", your sentence says "no it is op" "Op" backwards and then forwards again is "poop."
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Aug 13, 2017 16:03
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This is a George Carlin bit, isn't it
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Aug 13, 2017 16:24
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You can't spell slaughter without laughter!
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Aug 13, 2017 16:24
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Sono posted:"Op" backwards and then forwards again is "poop." Holy poo poo, this checks out!
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Aug 13, 2017 17:43
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what the gently caress
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