Take it to the Bank
Language brain teasers are those that involve the English language. You need to think about and manipulate words and letters.
Change one letter of each of these 3 words to create a new set of words with a common theme.
walk, boy, sleet
HintAn American, a Canadian and an Englishman walk into a bar...
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Answer
Change walk to wall, boy to bay and sleet to fleet to get the names of famous business districts in the US, Canada and England, respectively:
Wall Street
Bay Street
Fleet Street
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Comments
bradon182001   
Oct 07, 2011
| Well done, try as hard as I could to figure this out, I finally had to look at the answer.Excellent teaser. Thanks for posting. |
boodler 
Oct 13, 2011
| Fleet Street was known for hundreds of years as a centre for PRINTING, but is now more known for its LEGAL connections. "The City" is the term for the FINANCIAL district of London.  Therefore this teaser isn't. |
Gizzer
Oct 13, 2011
| My apologies for any offense given by the error in this teaser. It was not intentional. I have submitted a correction. |
boodler
Sep 06, 2012
| Fleet Street was known for hundreds of years as a centre for PRINTING, but is now more known for its LEGAL connections. "The City" is the term for the FINANCIAL district of London. Therefore this teaser still isn't. |
Gizzer
Sep 06, 2012
| I submitted the correction after your original comment, boodler. The correction has yet to be processed by the editors. |
boodler
Sep 09, 2012
| OK bud. |
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