Appendix talk:Kangaroo words

questionable

 * caravan and RV
 * complements and completes
 * dream and REM -- REM is an acronym for rapid eye movement
 * emasculate and cut
 * exorcise and excise
 * facet and face
 * overwhelm and whelm
 * rotator and rotor
 * sorcerer and seer
 * transportation and train

anti

 * cremator and creator
 * therapist and rapist

Shouldn't kangaroo words exclude those that have all letters consecutively, e.g., overwhelm and whelm?

Difficult to read
I think this would be easier to read if the "joey words" were separated out, so rather than e.g. yearning we would just have yearning: yen. Equinox ◑ 23:00, 5 September 2012 (UTC)


 * Actually, some users might want to solve for joey word as puzzles. Keeping them "bold" and hidden inside, makes it easy to cut and paste to a text editor and lose the joey. This way, it won't be a dead-giveaway for word-game puzzle solvers. 74.211.225.34


 * Other users might want to be able to read the words :) Equinox ◑ 20:38, 6 September 2012 (UTC)


 * That would also allow us to easily link to the terms. What about having both? (yearning: yearning, yen)? — Ungoliant (Falai) 20:39, 6 September 2012 (UTC)


 * If we have "yearning, yen", the cutting-and-pasting can't be done (unless one cuts-and-pastes each word individually, at which point one could just as well cut-and-paste only the first word of the pair). I support splitting the parent and joey words. - -sche (discuss) 20:41, 6 September 2012 (UTC)


 * Perhaps we could do it in a table, with a column for the entire word (sub-bolded) and columns for the sub-word(s). Then at least people could easily paste it into a spreadsheet and cut out the unwanted columns. Equinox ◑ 20:43, 6 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Or do what I do; ignore it every time it appears in the recent changes. We have enough troubles with the main namespace before we start tackling appendices too. Mglovesfun (talk) 20:49, 6 September 2012 (UTC)


 * I support putting a table with the joey word hidden by default. The user has to click a "show" button to unhide the joey. Wikipedia has elaborate mechanisms for hidding/showing columns in a table.  I don't know about Wiktionary  Powerslide (talk)


 * It is actually easy to read the joey words if you zoom-in on your browser. Internet Explorer and Google chrome have controls that allow you to enlarge the webpage. I can easily spot bolded italics when zoomed at 200% 108.66.129.231 18:52, 8 September 2012 (UTC)


 * If a page requires manual zooming to be read, then it is clearly poorly designed! Equinox ◑ 19:00, 8 September 2012 (UTC)


 * Well, it's a compromise between readability and obscurity. We want to expose enough of the joey word so that one can find it when required, but also prevent it from being a dead-giveaway :) 108.66.129.231 19:14, 8 September 2012 (UTC)


 * I created a template for this . For example * produces:


 * Should it be used? — Ungoliant (Falai) 18:59, 8 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Should it be used? — Ungoliant (Falai) 18:59, 8 September 2012 (UTC)

_ic versus _ical
Since Equinox introduced "electric" and "electrical", here are related kangaroo pairs
 * cyclic and cyclical
 * mystic and mystical
 * conic and conical

series

 * quintuplet: quintet
 * sextuplet: sextet
 * septuplet: septet
 * octuplet: octet