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For me, the beauty of an anagram is it getting you thinking - is it all a coincidence?

I'll be honest, truly, I don't think it is - I mean how could it be if the letters are the same.

So what is one to make of the fact that the 2-word anagrams for George Washington are:

hogging stoneware

nohow segregating

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this is my take on it - I think washington pretended he wasn't but he did sort of hog the stoneware...and only because he had proven his mettle on the battlefield did he get deference for this, but that leads to the next anagram which is "nohow segregating" and I'm not kidding that makes me think about Hamilton, and frankly, that was one of many of Washington's mistakes....but nobody is perfect are they?

I wonder what the anagrams are for Alexander Hamilton. I think I'll post those next.

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exhalation mandrel

innholder malaxate

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I think those capture it.

Lets play some word games - shall we?

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Are You a Logophile or Lexophile, 'Ken'? Logophiles and lexophiles love words, and paraprosdokians are a form of wordplay. https://owlcation.com/humanities/Word-Play-What-is-Paraprosdokian

BTW - Nothing doing on the beans - they have gone to sleep and the only one that's got to 2" has stopped and is looking rather sick. It's been sunny for 2 weeks now with a static High in, so I am at a loss. I shall be planting new ones straight into my plot tomorrow and see how that goes. (PS I am using Enorma which I have used for years)

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