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Test your musical ability with today’s brain game. Add a different musical note (you know, do, re, mi, etc.) to each of the three blanks below to come up with a common English word:
___ ___ ___ V E
Click here for the answer.
re-la-ti-ve = relative
posted by Alyssa on 5-12-2008 at 10:00 am
re-la-ti-ve
posted by kwkchk on 5-12-2008 at 10:04 am
Looks like Alyssa solved it.
Then kwkchk re-solved it.
I’d like to re-re-solve it.
posted by Rosebud on 5-12-2008 at 11:27 am
relative!
posted by the creature on 5-12-2008 at 12:02 pm
At first I was thinking dissolve, and marveling at how smart I was, and then I realized that it wasn’t it. It was heartbreaking.
posted by Cassie on 7-1-2008 at 3:47 pm