Monday, December 17, 2007
T9onyms
It's annoying, isn't it, when you try to type one word into your mobile phone using predictive text and it insists on writing another. You're trying to write "me" and it writes "of". You're trying to write "home" and it writes "good". You're trying to write "bastard" and it writes "word not in dictionary".
Well, there's a special name for words that are different but are typed the same way on a mobile. They're called T9onyms (after the T9 system of predictive text). So I wondered whether we might be able to construct a list of T9onyms. I'm not interested in two or three letter words, preferably five letters and above please. And nothing over-obvious either (like "reduce" and "seduce"). I'm only after interesting T9onyms, the ones that don't have lots of letters in common and are maybe a bit clever.
Here are a few T9onyms to start you off...
4: book/cool, kiss/lips, golf/hole, pint/shot/riot, game/hand, meal/neck, cock/anal, Anna/bomb, lazy/jazz
5: alone/blood, brief/aside, rifle/shelf, vogue/unite, Scots/pants, rides/sheep, queue/Steve, awake/cycle
6: autumn/button, quakes/sucker, dosage/enrage/forbid/forage, sorted/posted, unused/toupee, afford/before
7: barmaid/carnage, fancies/damages, emptier/forties, tongued/vomited, Heather/heavier, biscuit/circuit
8: selected/rejected, Smirnoff/poisoned
9: equitable/fruitcake
<< click for Newer posts
click for Older Posts >>
click to return to the main page
