The rhymes in this section have the ‘or’ sound of ford and daughter as their main or final vowel sound.
25.1 aw, awe, boar, Boer, Bohr, bore, braw, caw, chore, claw, cor, core, corps, craw, door, draw, drawer, faugh, flaw, floor, for, fore, four, gnaw, gore, Gore, haw, hoar, jaw, law, lor’, lore, maw, moor, Moor, Moore, more, nor, o’er, oar, or, ore, paw, poor, pore, pour, pshaw, raw, roar, saw, score, Shaw, shore, slaw, snore, soar, sore, spoor, spore, squaw, store, straw, sure, swore, tau, taw, thaw, Thor, tor, tore, war, Waugh, whore, wore, yaw, yore, your, you’re
Stately as a galleon, I sail across the floor,
Doing the Military Two-step, as in the days of yore.
JOYCE GRENFELL
25.2 Gabor, rapport, macaw, Tagore, adore, afore, guffaw, Lahore, abhor, galore, unmoor, tussore, ashore, assure, next door, señor, Dior, rebore, heehaw, redraw, prewar, before, restore, deplore, implore, explore, withdraw, signor, ignore, ensure, inshore, insure, Mysore, offshore, onshore, forbore, foreswore, foresaw, outpour, prowar, postwar, unsure, du jour, * esprit de corps, toreador, plesiosaur, ichthyosaur, George Bernard Shaw, father-in-law, daughter-in-law, brother-in-law, mother-in-law, sister-in-law, Ollerenshaw, underinsure
25.3 trapdoor, jackdaw, Blackmore, Nassau, hacksaw, Bradshaw, handsaw, Fanshawe, hardcore, Dartmoor, therefore, wherefore, décor, claymore, chain saw, emptor, centaur, mentor, stentor, Mentmore, Exmoor, Sedgemoor, bedstraw, bedsore, fret saw, Eeyore, Dior, threescore, fetor, Seymour, Timor, Esau, seesaw, seashore, indoor, ripsaw, whipsaw, jigsaw, rickshaw, scrimshaw, bylaw, Whitelaw, eyesore, condor, Choctaw, Roquefort, cocksure, lockjaw, Haw-Haw, forepaw, pawpaw, Cawnpore, fourscore, Broadmoor, Hawksmoor, foreshore, downpour, southpaw, outdoor, outlaw, ground floor, folklore, coleslaw, Cold War, cold sore, drugstore, uproar, bookstore, footsore, smoothbore, dewclaw
25.4 matador, Salvador, Labrador, battledore, guarantor, Bangalore, antiwar, Aviemore, Barrymore, Arkansas, carnivore, theretofore, eighty-four, Ecuador, metaphor, semaphore, evermore, nevermore, stegosaur, pterosaur, Melchior, hellebore, petit four, twenty-four, anymore, Elsinore, furthermore, thermidor, thirty-four, herbivore, heretofore, Theodore, stevedore, reassure, Singapore, picador, pinafore, interwar, sycamore, Michelmore, Chickasaw, Wichita, fifty-four, sixty-four, Minotaur, either-or, cyberwar, dinosaur, ninety-four, commodore, warrantor, common-law, sophomore, brontosaur, corridor, omnivore, door-to-door, mortgagor, forty-four, Baltimore, overawe, overdraw, oversaw, underscore, underfloor, tug-of-war, usquebaugh, Ruddigore, son-in-law, superstore, louis d’or, humidor, * San Salvador, El Salvador, tyrannosaur, forevermore, excelsior, insectivore, conquistador, hereinbefore, Securicor®
Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!
Quoth the Raven, ‘Nevermore’.
EDGAR ALLAN POE
25.5 daub, orb, * absorb, adsorb, bedaub, * reabsorb
25.6 auk, balk, baulk, caulk, chalk, cork, Cork, dork, fork, gawk, hawk, Hawke, nork, orc, pork, squawk, stalk, stork, talk, torc, torque, walk, York, * uncork, Dundalk, New York, * catwalk, hayfork, jaywalk, spacewalk, pep talk, sweet-talk, beanstalk, sleepwalk, pitchfork, nighthawk, sidewalk, shoptalk, crosstalk, goshawk, small talk, boardwalk, Mohawk, ropewalk, uptalk, newshawk, * tomahawk, sparrowhawk, tuning fork
25.7 Fawkes, forks, hawks, Hawks, lawks, squawks, talks, etc.
25.8 porch, scorch, torch, * debauch, * blowtorch
25.9 baud, bawd, board, bored, broad, cawed, chord, Claude, clawed, cord, fjord, flawed, floored, ford, Ford, fraud, Gawd, gnawed, gored, hoard, horde, laud, lord, Lord, Maud, moored, oared, pawed, poured, roared, scored, snored, soared, stored, sward, sword, thawed, ward, * aboard, accord, adored, afford, guffawed, abhorred, applaud, abroad, maraud, award, toward, assured, record, restored, defraud, milord, deplored, implored, explored, reward, ignored, ensured, insured, * blackboard, dashboard, splashboard, landlord, starboard, cardboard, hardboard, dartboard, draughtboard, bargeboard, skateboard, pasteboard, sailboard, tailboard, pegboard, breadboard, headboard, chessboard, record, surfboard, freeboard, keyboard, leeboard, seaboard, cheeseboard, greensward, chipboard, clipboard, shipboard, billboard, inboard, springboard, switchboard, ripcord, whipcord, discord, sideboard, whiteboard, signboard, blockboard, washboard, concord, Concorde, floorboard, scoreboard, warlord, broadsword, outboard, outlawed, snowboard, duckboard, footboard, * clapperboard, clavichord, plasterboard, harpsichord, scraperboard, tape-record, chequerboard, centreboard, weatherboard, skirting board, leaderboard, Ouija board®, needlecord, reassured, fingerboard, disaccord, spinal cord, diving board, bodyboard, mortarboard, smorgasbord, storyboard, overawed, overboard, overlord, notice board, motherboard, underscored, untoward, unexplored, uninsured, * ironing board, underinsured
Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord:
He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored;
H hath loosed the fateful lightning of his terrible swift sword:
His truth is marching on.
JULIA WARD HOWE
25.10 boards, Claude’s, cords, hordes, Lord’s, wards, * towards, defrauds, * keyboards, sideboards, floorboards, * Norfolk Broads, House of Lords, vocal cords, * Madame Tussauds, etc.
25.11 Corfe, dwarf, morph, orfe, Orff, swarf, wharf, * Waldorf, * endomorph, ectomorph, mesomorph, polymorph, Düsseldorf
25.12 Borg, morgue, * Cherbourg, cyborg, * Helsingborg, Swedenborg
25.13 forge, George, gorge, * St George, engorge, disgorge
25.14 all, awl, ball, bawl, brawl, call, caul, crawl, drawl, fall, gall, Gaul, hall, haul, mall, maul, pall, Paul, Saul, scrawl, shawl, small, sprawl, squall, stall, tall, thrall, trawl, wall, waul, yawl, * appal, Bacall, Bengal, Nepal, recall, de Gaulle, install, befall, withal, enthral, Porthcawl, forestall, town hall, * blackball, handball, catcall, bradawl, landfall, pratfall, Blackwall, catch-all, fastball, dancehall, hairball, paintball, baseball, rainfall, netball, Threlfall, meatball, sleazeball, keelhaul, pinball, windfall, pitfall, guildhall, Milwall, fireball, firewall, eyeball, highball, Naipaul, nightfall, Whitehall, sidewall, oddball, softball, mothball, Rockall, long-haul, Vauxhall, shortfall, short-haul, Cornwall, Walsall, outfall, Southall, downfall, outhaul, downhaul, no-ball, snowball, holdall, snowfall, stonewall, Rosewall, puffball, punchball, Nuttall, thumbstall, pub crawl, football, Goodall, bookstall, footfall, screwball, goofball, * trackerball, cannonball, caterwaul, Tattersall, carryall, basketball, Aspinwall, Charles de Gaulle, Senegal, market stall, wherewithal, evenfall, free-for-all, reinstall, fingerstall, disenthral, off-the-wall, Montreal, volleyball, Donegal, waterfall, wall-to-wall, warts and all, all in all, rollerball, overhaul, overall, know-it-all, butterball, coverall, * belle of the ball, Vincent de Paul
Mirror, mirror on the wall,
Who is the fairest of them all?
JACOB & WILHELM GRIMM
25.15 auld, bald, called, scald, sprawled, stalled, walled, * appalled, recalled, installed, enthralled, forestalled, * blackballed, keelhauled, piebald, snowballed, so-called, close-hauled, skewbald, * caterwauled, Archibald, Theobald, reinstalled, disenthralled, overhauled, Cumbernauld, etc.
25.16 false, waltz
25.17 fault, Galt, halt, malt, salt, SALT, vault, Walt, * assault, default, exalt, * asphalt, Hainault, basalt, cobalt, pole vault, * somersault
25.18 salts, schmaltz, vaults, etc.
25.19 balls, calls, crawls, falls, mauls, smalls, stalls, walls, Walls, etc.
25.20 Baum, corm, dorm, form, haulm, Maugham, norm, Norm, Orme, shawm, storm, swarm, warm, * perform, conform, aswarm, transform, re-form, deform, reform, inform, * sandstorm, landform, platform, barnstorm, Cairngorm, hailstorm, brainstorm, rainstorm, waveform, windstorm, firestorm, snowstorm, lukewarm, * gasiform, Benidorm, misinform, chloroform, Cominform, outperform, oviform, thunderstorm, multiform, spongiform, uniform, cuneiform, cruciform
25.21 formed, stormed, swarmed, warmed, * unformed, unwarmed, malformed, transformed, deformed, reformed, informed, * well-informed, ill-informed, uninformed, uniformed, etc.
25.22 awn, Bjorn, born, borne, bourn, Braun, brawn, corn, dawn, Dawn, drawn, faun, fawn, horn, Horne, lawn, lorn, morn, mourn, Mourne, pawn, porn, prawn, Quorn®, sawn, scorn, Sean, shorn, SORN, spawn, sworn, thorn, torn, Vaughan, warn, Warne, worn, yawn, * suborn, unborn, adorn, Siobhan, forlorn, unworn, Cape Horn, well-worn, reborn, dehorn, redrawn, inborn, withdrawn, indrawn, forborne, forewarn, forsworn, outworn, * blackthorn, alphorn, Langhorne, saxhorn, ramshorn, airborne, chairborne, careworn, Ayckbourn, baseborn, acorn, Melbourne, Leghorn, firstborn, earthborn, freeborn, seaborne, Eastbourne, sweetcorn, greenhorn, stillborn, inkhorn, stinkhorn, Bighorn, highborn, Glyndebourne, tricorn, timeworn, Osborne, Osbourne, frogspawn, popcorn, foghorn, longhorn, shopworn, war-torn, hawthorn, Hawthorne, Rawsthorne, shorthorn, lowborn, Runcorn, buckthorn, crumhorn, lovelorn, newborn, shoehorn, * Matterhorn, alpenhorn, Capricorn, barleycorn, weatherworn, peppercorn, leprechaun, winterbourne, Sittingbourne, waterborne, overdrawn, flugelhorn, unicorn
This is the farmer sowing his corn,
That kept the cock that crowed in the morn,
That waked the priest all shaven and shorn,
That married the man all tattered and torn,
That kissed the maiden all forlorn, That milked the cow with the crumpled horn.
NURSERY RHYME
25.23 graunch, haunch, launch, paunch, staunch, * relaunch
25.24 dawned, horned, mourned, pawned, scorned, * suborned, adorned, dehorned, forewarned, * unadorned, etc.
25.25 chaunt, daunt, flaunt, gaunt, haunt, jaunt, taunt, vaunt, * avaunt
25.26 Corp., gawp, Thorpe, warp, * Scunthorpe
25.27 corpse, gawps, warps, * Cleethorpes
25.28 coarse, course, force, gorse, hoarse, horse, Morse, Norse, sauce, source, * perforce, unhorse, recourse, endorse, enforce, divorce, remorse, resource, outsource, * dampcourse, packhorse, carthorse, racecourse, gale force, drayhorse, racehorse, workforce, workhorse, seahorse, discourse, concourse, forecourse, sawhorse, warhorse, clotheshorse, downforce, * Ladislaus, Stanislaus, reinforce, intercourse, Wilberforce, hobbyhorse, rocking horse, watercourse, tour de force, vaulting horse, Trojan horse
I know two things about the horse
And one of them is rather coarse.
NAOMI ROYDE-SMITH
25.29 coursed, forced, horst, sourced, * unforced, unhorsed, endorsed, enforced, divorced, exhaust, outsourced, * holocaust, reinforced, hypocaust, unenforced
25.30 borsch, Porsche
25.31 aught, bought, brought, caught, court, fort, fought, fraught, Mort, naught, nought, ought, port, quart, short, snort, sort, sought, sport, taught, taut, thought, thwart, tort, torte, wart, wrought, * abort, support, comport, contort, untaught, cavort, athwart, assort, consort, unsought, transport, hard-fought, self-taught, purport, rethought, re-sort, deport, report, import, disport, export, escort, retort, distort, extort, methought, distraught, besought, resort, exhort, * transport, carport, airport, Fairport, spaceport, export, escort, dreadnought, seaport, import, Bridgeport, hillfort, Stockport, Gosport, onslaught, Connaught, consort, forecourt, lawcourt, forethought, Southport, spoilsport, Coalport, Beaufort, cohort, Newport, * aforethought, * Davenport, Hampton Court, astronaut, alphasort, Agincourt, afterthought, Argonaut, aeronaut, Devonport, heliport, teleport, reimport, re-export, Inns of Court, misreport, life-support, hoverport, cosmonaut, overwrought, juggernaut, worrywart
25.32 courts, forts, noughts, orts, ports, quartz, Schwartz, shorts, sorts, sports, thoughts, warts, * aborts, supports, cavorts, Cinque Ports, imports, exports, retorts, distorts, * astronauts, Argonauts, second thoughts, winter sports, water sports, juggernauts, undershorts, etc.
25.33 forth, Forth, fourth, north, swath, * henceforth, thenceforth, * Carnforth, Seaforth, Bridgnorth, * back and forth, Ampleforth, Perranporth
25.34 dwarves, wharves
25.35 cause, chores, clause, claws, doors, Dors, drawers, floors, gauze, hawse, jaws, Jaws, laws, moors, oars, pause, paws, shores, stores, tawse, wars, Waugh’s, whores, yaws, yours, * adores, applause, Azores, indoors, implores, ignores, outdoors, outpours, plus-fours, * trapdoors, jackdaws, jackstraws, hacksaws, * matadors, Santa Claus, metaphors, menopause, out of doors, * Louis Quatorze
With first-rate sherry flowing into second-rate whores,
And third-rate conversation without one single pause:
Just like a young couple
Between the wars.
WILLIAM PLOMER
26.1 corbie, Corby, dauby, Formby, Hornby, Moresby, chalky, corky, gawky, Gorky, pawky, porky, stalky, talkie, Yorkie, corgi, porgy, bawdy, gaudy, Geordie, lordy, Saudi, Aldi, baldy, Caldy, Maundy, Corti, forty, haughty, naughty, shorty, sortie, sporty, warty, balti, faulty, Fawlty, malty, salty, flaunty, jaunty, Morphy, wharfie, swarthy, Haughey, Cawley, Chorley, Crawley, Fawley, Morley, Pauli, poorly, Raleigh, scrawly, squally, sorely, surely, Audley, broadly, lordly, baldly, courtly, portly, shortly, tautly, fourthly, Gormley, warmly, Thornley, coarsely, hoarsely, falsely, Maudsley, staunchly, Corey, dory, Florey, fury, glory, gory, hoary, lory, MORI, Rory, storey, story, Tory, Aubrey, strawberry, Audrey, Cawdrey, bawdry, tawdry, Baldry, laundry, Hawtrey, Daltrey, paltry, palfrey, dormie, stormy, brawny, corny, horny, scrawny, tawny, thorny, tourney, Orkney, Courtney, Dorsey, Glauce, gorsy, horsey, saucy, torsi, Orczy, schmaltzy, gauzy, ballsy, palsy, paunchy, raunchy, orgy, Georgie, * Treorchy, Milwaukee, Sikorsky, Mussorgsky, cum laude, Kirkcaldy, Grimaldi, Macaulay, Bengali, Nepali, unsurely, forlornly, Maggiore, satori, vainglory, tandoori, John Dory, furore, Trelawney, * centaury, clerestory, blindstorey, outlawry, * walkie-talkie, garibaldi, Garibaldi, pianoforte, creepy-crawly, uniformly, cacciatore, yakitori, a priori, West Side Story, con amore, Montessori, Tobermory, hunky-dory, multistorey, * memento mori, a fortiori, * Alpha Centauri, mulligatawny, etc.
26.2 dauber, Zorba, gawper, pauper, torpor, * absorber, Micawber, * shock absorber, * daub her, absorb her, etc.
26.3 Chalker, corker, hawker, Lorca, orca, porker, squawker, stalker, talker, walker, Walker, auger, augur, * Majorca, Minorca, New Yorker, * jaywalker, deerstalker, sleepwalker, streetwalker, * kwashiorkor, babywalker, * stalk her, sweet-talk her, etc.
26.4 boarder, border, broader, hoarder, Korda, Lauder, order, warder, alder, balder, Balder, Calder, launder, maunder, daughter, mortar, oughta, porter, Porter, quarter, shorter, slaughter, snorter, sorter, tauter, torte, water, altar, alter, falter, halter, Malta, palter, Psalter, salter, vaulter, Walter, flaunter, gaunter, saunter, taunter, vaunter, Forster, fraudster, * marauder, reorder, defrauder, recorder, disorder, tall order, suborder, supporter, transporter, aorta, three-quarter, reporter, importer, exporter, extorter, hot water, assaulter, Gibraltar, defaulter, * camcorder, mail order, sailboarder, skateboarder, keyboarder, backwater, granddaughter, manslaughter, breakwater, rainwater, meltwater, stepdaughter, freshwater, shearwater, sea water, Piesporter, Drinkwater, ripsnorter, dishwater, ditchwater, Bridgwater, firewater, tidewater, hindquarter, goddaughter, colporteur, forequarter, saltwater, Bowater, Ullswater, * una corda, tape recorder, postal order, teleporter, Derwentwater, underwater, * ignored her, caught her
This is the Night Mail crossing the Border,
Bringing the cheque and the postal order.
W. H.AUDEN
26.5 Forfar, author
26.6 bawler, brawler, caller, crawler, drawler, faller, hauler, mauler, Paula, scrawler, smaller, sprawler, taller, trawler, warbler, dawdler, aura, borer, Cora, corer, Dora, flora, Flora, Laura, Norah, Morar, poorer, pourer, roarer, scorer, snorer, sorer, surer, Thora, Torah, * mandorla, installer, adorer, Atora®, Andorra, Pandora, angora, fedora, menorah, restorer, explorer, señora, signora, insurer, aurora, * kerb crawler, footballer, * kia ora, Leonora, Theodora, Isadora, Bora Bora, Tuscarora, * call her, ignore her, etc.
26.7 dormer, former, Norma, korma, ormer, stormer, trauma, warmer, corner, fauna, fawner, Horner, Lorna, Morna, mourner, sauna, scorner, Warner, yawner, Faulkner, * performer, conformer, transformer, reformer, informer, pro forma, * barnstormer, legwarmer, bedwarmer, sixth-former, * inform her, forewarn her, etc.
Little Jack Horner
Sat in the corner,
Eating a Christmas pie.
NURSERY RHYME
26.8 coarser, courser, Chaucer, dorsa, forcer, hoarser, saucer, balsa, falser, waltzer, causer, hawser, Porsche, Portia, Yorkshire, scorcher, torture, launcher, stauncher, Borgia, forger, Georgia, gorger, * endorser, enforcer, debaucher, * reinforcer, flying saucer, * force her, adores her, etc.
26.9 Nordic, Baltic, caustic, swordstick, Orphic, Jorvik, Norvic, salt lick, boric, chloric, baldric, Baldrick, formic, georgic, * aortic, hydraulic, McCormick, * metamorphic, endomorphic, ectomorphic, mesomorphic, polymorphic, hydrochloric
26.10 swordsticks, salt licks, Horlicks®, Baldrick’s, * hydraulics, etc.
26.11 morbid, torpid, orchid, sordid, gloried, lurid, storied, palsied, * three-storeyed, two-storeyed
26.12 halberd, boarded, bordered, corded, hoarded, ordered, laundered, courted, quartered, sorted, thwarted, watered, altered, faltered, halted, malted, salted, daunted, haunted, taunted, sauntered, vaunted, Orford, Salford, Walford, Crawford, Mordred, forward, shoreward, awkward, northward, orchard, tortured, * applauded, reordered, defrauded, recorded, rewarded, disordered, supported, assorted, contorted, deported, reported, distorted, unaltered, assaulted, unsalted, exalted, undaunted, exhausted, straightforward, henceforward, thenceforward, three-cornered, * prerecorded, unrecorded, unrewarded, unsupported, unreported, unescorted, etc.
26.13 halberds, forwards, shorewards, northwards, orchards, etc.
26.14 corkage, mortgage, cordage, shortage, wharfage, haulage, moorage, storage, drawbridge, Aldridge, * remortgage
26.15 bauble, corbel, warble, snorkel, caudal, dawdle, Wardle, chortle, mortal, portal, Borstal, awful, lawful, thoughtful, mournful, scornful, forceful, formal, normal, aural, choral, floral, oral, corporal, rorqual, dorsal, foresail, morsel, causal, * withdrawal, aortal, immortal, St Austell, unlawful, remorseful, resourceful, abnormal, informal, subnormal, * paranormal, menopausal
Guns aren’t lawful;
Nooses give;
Gas smells awful;
You might as well live.
DOROTHY PARKER
26.16 baubles, Gorbals, mortals, portals, morsels, etc.
26.17 boredom, Fordham, whoredom, autumn, Waltham, Fortnum, sorghum, forum, quorum, Shoreham, awesome, foursome, balsam, * postmortem, decorum, * Karakoram, ad valorem, variorum, indecorum, * sanctum sanctorum, * brought ’em, wore ’em, etc.
26.18 Corbin, Dworkin, walk-in, foreskin, Aldrin, Austen, Austin, dauphin, Magdalen, Magdalene, maudlin, porcelain, Baldwin, * endorphin, tarpaulin, * talkin’, fallin’, etc.
26.19 auburn, Bourbon, Alban, saucepan, Lorcan, Balkan, falcon, Gorgon, Morgan, organ, Auden, Borden, bourdon, broaden, cordon, Gordon, Hordern, Jordan, Norden, warden, Alden, Malden, Bourton, Broughton, Houghton, Laughton, Moreton, Morton, Naughton, Norton, Orton, quartan, quartern, shorten, Stoughton, tauten, Wharton, Alton, Chorlton, Dalton, Galton, Halton, saltern, Walton, Taunton, Thornton, Launceston, orphan, Malvern, northern, fallen, Coren, Lauren, Moran, cauldron, doorman, foreman, Gorman, lawman, Mormon, Norman, storeman, Walkman®, Kaufman, horseman, Norseman, sportsman, oarsman, swordsman, coarsen, Dawson, hoarsen, Lawson, Orson, Porson, whoreson, caution, portion, torsion, auction, fortune, Georgian, * Majorcan, Minorcan, gyrfalcon, Glamorgan, Brize Norton, Throgmorton, foreshorten, Carshalton, Andorran, abortion, apportion, proportion, contortion, precaution, distortion, extortion, absorption, misfortune, exhaustion, * churchwarden, firewarden, crestfallen, * traffic warden, Saffron Walden, Salvadoran, Ecuadoran, disproportion, proabortion, malabsorption, self-absorption
26.20 broadened, cordoned, shortened, orphaned, foreland, moorland, Auckland, Falkland, Portland, Ormond, gourmand, Dortmund, coarsened, cautioned, auctioned, * North Foreland, South Foreland, apportioned, proportioned, etc.
26.21 saucepans, Balkans, falcons, Gorgons, wardens, orphans, Mormons, Normans, portions, * St Albans, abortions, proportions, precautions, etc.
26.22 Dawkins, Hawkins, foreskins, Baldwin’s, * endorphins, tarpaulins, etc.
26.23 mordant, mordent, oughtn’t, portent, dormant, Stormont, * absorbent, accordant, concordant, discordant, important, informant, comportment, assortment, deportment, instalment, enthralment, adornment, endorsement, enforcement, divorcement, engorgement, disgorgement, * self-important, all-important, unimportant, reinforcement
26.24 portents, ordnance, * accordance, concordance, discordance, importance, performance, conformance, informants, instalments, adornments, assurance, insurance, * self-importance, unimportance, reassurance, * underperformance, etc.
26.25 drawing, gnawing, sawing, thawing, corking, Dorking, Hawking, squawking, stalking, talking, walking, boarding, hoarding, balding, scalding, Spalding, courting, sorting, sporting, halting, malting, salting, vaulting, daunting, haunting, taunting, bawling, brawling, calling, crawling, falling, galling, hauling, mauling, Pauling, scrawling, sprawling, stalling, trawling, dawdling, lordling, Maudling, chortling, boring, flooring, Goring, mooring, pouring, roaring, scoring, snoring, soaring, storing, warring, drawstring, forewing, forming, storming, swarming, warming, awning, dawning, fawning, morning, mourning, warning, yawning, coursing, forcing, waltzing, causing, pausing, scorching, torching, forging, gorging, * guffawing, withdrawing, absorbing, uncorking, according, applauding, marauding, recording, rewarding, supporting, cavorting, transporting, reporting, importing, exporting, escorting, ripsnorting, distorting, unsporting, assaulting, exalting, exhausting, appalling, enthralling, adoring, assuring, skijoring, imploring, exploring, rip-roaring, outpouring, performing, conforming, transforming, reforming, informing, adorning, forewarning, endorsing, enforcing, divorcing, outsourcing, debauching, disgorging, * jaywalking, sleepwalking, sweet-talking, hillwalking, bushwalking, sailboarding, skateboarding, keyboarding, snowboarding, blackballing, name-calling, paintballing, kerb crawling, keelhauling, snowballing, stonewalling, footballing, barnstorming, heart-warming, brainstorming, housewarming, * tape-recording, weatherboarding, bodyboarding, unrewarding, self-supporting, caterwauling, overhauling, reassuring, underflooring, underscoring, reinforcing, etc.
Come in the evening, or come in the morning,
Come when you’re looked for, or come without warning.
THOMAS DAVIS
26.26 auspice, Aldis, jaundice, mortise, loris, cornice, * aqua fortis, rigor mortis
26.27 corpus, porpoise, Malpas, Aldous, Plautus, tortoise, caucus, Dorcas, glaucous, raucous, clawless, flawless, lawless, scoreless, stalkless, cordless, thoughtless, faultless, dauntless, formless, gormless, hornless, thornless, horseless, causeless, chorus, porous, Taurus, torus, wardress, laundress, fortress, walrus, poorness, rawness, soreness, sureness, baldness, shortness, tautness, smallness, tallness, coarseness, hoarseness, cautious, tortious, gorgeous, * amorphous, remorseless, Dolores, sonorous, Centaurus, thesaurus, nonporous, enormous, ginormous, incautious, * polymorphous, stegosaurus, Epidaurus, brontosaurus, * tyrannosaurus, * habeas corpus, ichthyosaurus, * fought us, bore us, etc.
26.28 Yorkist, jaundiced, flautist, shortlist, * conformist, * nonconformist
26.29 August, shortest, tautest, smallest, tallest, chorused, warmest, coarsest, hoarsest, falsest, etc.
26.30 hawkish, mawkish, shortish, crawfish, dwarfish, swordfish, warmish, Cornish, Dawlish, Gaulish, smallish, tallish, Moorish, moreish
26.31 Korbut, Norbert, Talbot, Alcott, curate, stalwart, * Port Talbot
26.32 Corbett, orbit, chalkpit, audit, plaudit, forfeit, gauntlet, torchlit, floret, cornet, hornet, corset, Dorset, faucet, Fawcett, * what-do-you-call-it, * hoard it, worn it, etc.
26.33 Morpeth, Bournemouth, Portsmouth
26.34 sportive, * abortive, supportive, exhaustive
26.35 talkies, walkies, corgis, Geordies, forties, Furies, glories, storeys, stories, Tories, strawberries, Audrey’s, Orkneys, falsies, orgies, * creepy-crawlies
26.36 stalkers, walkers, boarders, orders, Saunders, daughters, porters, quarters, waters, Waters, Walters, authors, callers, Paula’s, corners, mourners, courses, forces, horses, saucers, causes, clauses, pauses, torches, * marauders, recorders, three-quarters, reporters, supporters, headquarters, performers, armed forces, St George’s, * sleepwalkers, stepdaughters, headwaters, hindquarters, forequarters, footballers, legwarmers, sixth-formers, * tape recorders, flying saucers, etc.
26.37 organdie, Normandy, orderly, daughterly, mortally, quarterly, awfully, lawfully, thoughtfully, mournfully, scornfully, forcefully, northerly, orally, formally, formerly, normally, audibly, forcibly, awkwardly, awesomely, faultlessly, cautiously, strawberry, Salisbury, cautery, watery, psaltery, augury, sorcery, mortuary, forgery, laudatory, falconry, cautionary, Albany, Alderney, Shaughnessy, normalcy, dormancy, paucity, falsity, gaudily, haughtily, naughtily, jauntily, stormily, saucily, morbidly, sportingly, porphyry, auditory, dormitory, corsetry, ordinary, * disorderly, immortally, unlawfully, resourcefully, abnormally, informally, deplorably, reportedly, remorselessly, debauchery, reformatory, precautionary, O’Shaughnessy, absorbency, conformity, deformity, enormity, hydraulically, assuredly, exhaustively, accordingly, rewardingly, unsportingly, appallingly, extraordinary, * nonconformity, uniformity, reassuringly, etc.
There’s an Irishman, Arthur O’Shaughnessy –
On the chessboard of poets a pawn is he.
DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI
26.38 Córdoba, forwarder, Cordova, snorkeller, Aldeburgh, Marlborough, corpora, orderer, launderer, slaughterer, sorcerer, torturer, northerner, Corsica, orbiter, auditor, Dorchester, orchestra, Gordimer, Mortimer, forfeiture, mortgagor, wharfinger, formula
26.39 chalkier, bawdier, Claudia, gaudier, courtier, haughtier, naughtier, sportier, saltier, jauntier, morphia, swarthier, haulier, gloria, Gloria, gorier, scoria, stormier, brawnier, cornea, cornier, hornier, scrawnier, thornier, saucier, nausea, raunchier, * euphorbia, primordia, consortia, saintpaulia, Astoria, emporia, Pretoria, Victoria, dysphoria, euphoria, * sanatoria, crematoria, moratoria, auditoria, California, * phantasmagoria, etc.
26.40 Waterford, orbited, audited, * unaudited
26.41 audible, fordable, laudable, portable, sortable, forcible, plausible, corporal, cordial, corneal, boreal, oriel, cortical, nautical, vortical, ordinal, orbital, Portugal, * affordable, recordable, inaudible, supportable, transportable, exhaustible, adorable, restorable, deplorable, implausible, inaugural, proportional, primordial, manorial, factorial, arboreal, armorial, marmoreal, sartorial, Escorial, memorial, pictorial, corporeal, authorial, uxorial, tutorial, * unaffordable, insupportable, inexhaustible, unenforceable, lavatorial, janitorial, senatorial, equatorial, editorial, territorial, dictatorial, immemorial, incorporeal, professorial, aeronautical, astronautical, * ambassadorial, subequatorial, conspiratorial, inquisitorial
26.42 laudanum, organum, Altrincham, Walsingham, * exordium, consortium, emporium, scriptorium, * californium, sanatorium, crematorium, in memoriam, moratorium, auditorium
26.43 Worplesdon, Warburton, Alderton, Salterton, Auberon, alderman, Yorkshireman, Cornishman, Alderson, Sorbian, Scorpian, scorpion, Claudian, Gordian, Orphean, chorion, Dorian, saurian, Taurean, Corsican, Orpington, Mornington, Rawlinson, * accordion, Edwardian, stentorian, Gregorian, Victorian, historian, praetorian, Ivorian, * Perigordian, Capricornean, Californian, Salvadorian, Ecuadorean, Terpsichorean, Singaporean
26.44 scorpions, * Edwardians, Victorians, New Orleans, * Californians, etc.
26.45 cormorant, ornament, tournament, orient, Orient, corpulent, fraudulent, * apportionment, reorient, disorient, euphoriant, exorbitant
26.46 ornaments, tournaments, audience, ordinance, corpulence, fraudulence, etc.
26.47 daughterless, waterless, slaughterous, sorceress, sorcerous, torturous, Uranus, forwardness, awkwardness, thoughtfulness, mournfulness, lawlessness, thoughtlessness, cautiousness, Caucasus, Claudius, Morpheus, Orpheus, glorious, nauseous, nautilus, haughtiness, naughtiness, jauntiness, tawdriness, sauciness, tortuous, * straightforwardness, laborious, notorious, vainglorious, censorious, Nestorius, inglorious, Pretorius, victorious, uproarious, uxorious, * meritorious, etc.
Send her victorious,
Happy, and glorious,
Long to reign over us:
God save the queen!
NATIONAL ANTHEM
26.48 formalist, organist, pluralist, * abortionist, contortionist, extortionist
26.49 chalkiest, bawdiest, gaudiest, haughtiest, naughtiest, sportiest, saltiest, jauntiest, swarthiest, goriest, stormiest, brawniest, corniest, horniest, scrawniest, thorniest, sauciest, raunchiest, etc.
26.50 corporate, fortunate, aureate, laureate, ordinate, * proportionate, extortionate, unfortunate, subordinate, inordinate, coordinate, * disproportionate, baccalaureate, Poet Laureate, professoriate, insubordinate, superordinate
26.51 alterable, formidable, * unalterable