—Enzo Menendez, McAllen, Texas OK, I’m upping the ante for you, readers. For extra thinking exercise, find not just one common aspect, but two of them. The answer appears below. Answer: First, removing the first letter of each word leaves a new word. Second (and more subtle), the remaining letters change pronunciation in various ways. Example: The “b” in “plumber” is silent. But the “b” in “lumber” is pronounced. By contrast, consider the word “frightful.” Removing the first letter leaves “rightful,” which is pronounced exactly like “frightful” without the letter “f.”
