im_para_noid  
Jul 18, 2002
| if you don't think it works, just try saying them out loud |
BrenBeadSP 
Sep 07, 2004
| Did you also notice that ewe is typed with your left hand, while you is with your right AND both are on the top row of letters? Good one to share, thanks. |
tahoegiles
May 07, 2008
| Very good. I could have thought of words all night and still not gotten it. I thought the puzzle name, "largest pair" and the puzzle question about the "longest pair" might contain some hint since largest and longest aren't necessarily the same. |
RRAMMOHAN 
May 07, 2008
| For a cryptic crossword fan like me, this poser proved to be reasonably easy. It is a very interesting puzzle and sure to exercise the minds of people interested in words and wordplay. Thanks for the research. |
Cubano
May 07, 2008
| I got "I and eye" but alas i was bested |
karenokupniak
May 07, 2008
| Excellent teaser. I could live to be 100 and not gotten it, but it's very artistic. |
katjojo
May 07, 2008
| I also thought it could have been
I and eye.  |
lolitsme
May 07, 2008
| wow I actually figured that out in like 5 secs... it was easy to me! |
craniac
May 07, 2008
| In the Texas dialect I speak, ewe and you aren't pronounced exactly alike. You has an initial "yuh" sound that ewe lacks. |
bradon182001
May 07, 2008
| I never would have gotten this one right. I was thinking weigh and way, but they both start with w. Good teaser. Thanks for posting.  |
SSVillalobos
May 07, 2008
| Nice one - thought provoking! |
Scubee
May 07, 2008
| Some of the best teasers are some of the older ones. |
librasrobbi
May 07, 2008
| I am glad tosee I wasn't the only one that thought I and eye. Great challenge. |
wordmama
May 07, 2008
| I'm trying to understand how craniac pronounces 'ewe'; even the letter 'u' starts with that 'yuh' sound! How do you omit it!?? |
jcann
May 07, 2008
| I agree wordmama. Craniac, how do you pronounce "ewe"? oo?
I kept trying to think of longer words. Good teaser!  |
GLOR
May 07, 2008
| What about "hear and here" or "threw and through"? |
Samantha718
May 07, 2008
| GLOR: They share letters so don't meet the criteria. |
luckypuppy
May 07, 2008
| I drew a blank. That was great! |
FatHead
May 07, 2008
| So I thought to myself, how is this even possible? Even spelling "t" as "pt" (e.g. "pteranodon") or "n" as "pn" ("pneumatic") or "gn" ("gnarly") or "kn" ("knave"), doesn't change letters, but adds or removes letters, keeping one in common. What then? Simple, it had to have as few consonants as possible. After that, I found a possible solution that worked perfectly! Thing is, I didn't know if it was good enough because it was only three letters, but apparently it was! (Not that I could come up with any others anyway.)  |
ygtbjkn
May 07, 2008
| God i feel dumb!!!!!!!
LOL X1,000,000   |
harrypotter4444
May 07, 2008
| AWESOME!!!!!!! |
dana11
May 07, 2008
| i got thrown off when it said "longest"
i thought i had to think of long words |
auntiesis
May 07, 2008
| Here in New England, ewe and you are pronounced exactly the same way. But I still didn,t get it.    |
2ndhandrose
May 07, 2008
| Didn't get it !!
Longest & Largest ?? |
Meganan
May 08, 2008
| Great teaser. Didn't get it right but it was fun anyway  |
wordmama
May 08, 2008
| Ditto Dana. And jcann & I are still waiting to hear back from craniac! Well, maybe jcann's moved on, but being a word-mama, I'm still very curious! |
oddrey
May 08, 2008
| i actually pronounce ewe and you a bit differently myself. its a bit hard to explain in writing. i guess i sort of pronounce ew sor tof like "eww" like you would say if you were growsed out, but not really.
still, i thought this was a very good teaser! |
codedaddy
Jun 05, 2010
| I am stunned by the number of readers who accpet this error! "Ewe" is pronounced as 1. "ay'-way" or alternatively 2. "ay'-vay".
It is nowhere close to "you". |
mrschmooshies
Mar 25, 2011
| Technically, you're right, codedaddy, but ewe in this case is not referring to people of Togo and Ghana. Ewe is actually referring to a fully mature female sheep.
But I expect you were just being an intelligent donkey. |
wordmama
May 07, 2011
| Thank goodness, mrschmooshies, you were there to explain what codedaddy was talking about! And I learned something new! Thank you! |
sunnybonghits
May 07, 2011
| Good one I kept trying to think of words that began with 'c' and 's', or 'g' and 'j' but couldn't get anywhere, so I gave up rather quickly. And I'm glad I did - don't think this one would have come to me any time soon. |
HABS2933
May 07, 2011
| When all I could come up was i and eye and knew that couldn't be right, I was looking for it to be a trick question.
Thanks for the explanation as to ewe being a person from Togo. I had no idea what codedaddy was talking about. |
feste
May 07, 2011
| Nice puzzle. My favorite word is Honorificabilitudinitatibus the longest word in English comprizing of 27 alternating consonants and vowels. Very unique. |
river37
May 07, 2011
| I kept trying come up with words that began with "ph" and "f." Hard to believe there isn't a combo that matches the conditions longer than 3 letters! |
