XPost: rec.puzzles, alt.usage.english   
   From: rjh@cpax.org.uk   
      
   On 05/08/2025 15:26, James Dow Allen wrote:   
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   > Richard Heathfield  posted:   
   >   
   >> On 05/08/2025 13:10, James Dow Allen wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>> Here's a similar puzzle.   
   >>> To make it difficult, I don't show word lengths   
   >>>   
   >>> 123456789ABCD - famous claim from philosophy   
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   >> Stop right there! I gotta know right now!   
   >>   
   >> Before you go any further...   
   >>   
   >> Well, Meat Loaf aside, I've seen enough.   
   >>   
   >>> This phrase is obtained by concatenating five English words in this order:   
   >>> * a small part (3)   
   >>> * a pronoun (1)   
   >>> * a word that occurs twice in a famous 1st stanza (2)   
   >>> * a verb with dozens of dictionary entries (2)   
   >>> * often appears at the end of a restaurant meal (3)   
   >>   
   >> I think you hesitantly missed out two letters.   
   >   
   > "Hesitantly" -- :-)   
   >   
   > But I think you misguessed two of my intended words.   
      
   Ah! How delightful! I should maybe take this to email, yes?   
      
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