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Words in card names
« on: March 27, 2020, 03:55:44 am »
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With a new expansion coming out, it's time for a new edition of the most boring list: words (well, content morphemes) that occur in multiple card (well, card-shaped thing) names! A morpheme may count as the same even if it's spelled and/or pronounced differently in the card names it appears in.

23:
way

15:
village (16 if you count "villa")

12:
gift

8:
castle

6:
hunt
market
merchant
trade
treasure

5:
dame
man
sir
work

4:
city
fair
gold
haunt
house
ship

3:
art (if you count "artificer" and "artisan")
bandit
black
camp
court
curse
duke (if you count "duchy" and "duchess")
farm
ghost
goat
ground
horse
keep
lose
mine
misery (4 if you count "miser")
mountain
rat
road
room
royal
ruin
sea
secret
sheep
smith
witch
wood
zombie

2:
apprentice
border
bridge
camel
capital
caravan
coin
copper
count (not really, they're two different words)
cut
delude
den
earth
envy
estate
explore
field
fish
flag
fool
fort (if you count "fortress")
fortune
gate
grand
guard
guild
hag
hall
herd
hero
horn
iron
king
land (3 if you count "island")
library
make
mason
master
necro
noble
party
pass
place
port
post
prince
raid
scout
seal (not really;  notwithstanding the pun, they're different words)
shop
silk
spice
spy
stone
swamp
tax
tell
tower
town
train
triumph
wall
war
watch
wind
wish
wolf
yard

function words
36: the
26: of
3: out
2: over
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Re: Words in card names
« Reply #1 on: March 27, 2020, 01:28:55 pm »
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Obviously "way" appears in all 20 Ways, but I'm curious, which are the other three card-shaped things that have the word "way" in them?  Is "Wayfarer" included in that list?
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Re: Words in card names
« Reply #2 on: March 27, 2020, 01:35:37 pm »
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Obviously "way" appears in all 20 Ways, but I'm curious, which are the other three card-shaped things that have the word "way" in them?  Is "Wayfarer" included in that list?

Wayfarer (like you said), Highway, and Seaway
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Re: Words in card names
« Reply #3 on: March 27, 2020, 05:07:00 pm »
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I counted 3 with Count - Count, Counting House and Counterfeit.
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Re: Words in card names
« Reply #4 on: March 27, 2020, 05:11:49 pm »
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I counted 3 with Count - Count, Counting House and Counterfeit.

"Counterfeit" doesn't contain a morpheme "count".
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Re: Words in card names
« Reply #5 on: March 27, 2020, 05:14:01 pm »
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I counted 3 with Count - Count, Counting House and Counterfeit.

"Counterfeit" doesn't contain a morpheme "count".
Oh, okay. Fair enough.
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Re: Words in card names
« Reply #7 on: March 28, 2020, 08:04:03 pm »
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