USA states_ name transposals -02

    USA states_ name  transposals

 «O, nix, flamma mea!» (¡Oh, snow, flame of mine!)

Every English word (and name) can be transposed into some other word or name …. For a word to defy transposition would be an act of treason, so to speak.

  SET 01____ Let’s get strarted with nine of them from A to Z!

1 - ……………….. - It seems self-evident that the principal import of this state is AFRICAN OIL; and that at least some of its residents have revived the ancient Roman Saturnalia under the updated name of the FORNICALIA.

2 - ……………….. - Consistent with its role as a mining state, it has something of a COAL ODOR about it.

3 - ……………….. - Secretly published maps of the state show a town  named OLDFAIR.

4 - ……………….. - The most common words are AMINE, an organic compound; and for fans of the Japanese subculture… ANIME. 

5 - ……………….. - Like a chameleon, this name can twist itself into many forms: the most elegant anagram blends into NOMINATES. Other rearrangements include MAINSTONE; ANTINOMES, metaphysical contradictories; ANTIMESON, the antimatter counterpart of a subatomic particle;  and my favourite MOST INANE, in its superlative.

 6 - ……………….. - consider the word KEY-WORN: worn out by overuse of a key, said of keyholes.

 7 - ……………….. - One who has interes in Botanics may consider A HOLM OAK (see Webster’s dictionary in its Third Edition).

 8 - ……………….. - That special brand of common sense peculiar to teenagers is known as TEEN SENSE.

 9 - ……………….. - SNOW-HATING citizens are the majority of its population.

Source: DMITRI A. BORGMANN ( and Darryl H. Francis) at 

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