From the Juvenile Instructor of 1872:
What word is that in the English language
— the first two letters of which signify a man,
— the first three a woman,
— the first four a great man,
— the whole a great woman?
(If you know the answer, how about giving just a letter or two, leaving the rest to nag at other readers until the answer is posted tomorrow?)
UPDATE: The answer can be found here.
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I know I know I know!!!
Is the last letter of the full word an “e”?
Starts with a “h”
🙂
Yup (to both)! And Alison has solved it, too.
Four vowels? Two of which are the same?
If you leave off the final “e” you have a terrible problem, if I have it correctly.
Such creative (and accurate) ways to let us know you have solved the riddle!
I know it too, but everyone else already took the good ideas for cleverly hiding it. Great job!
Smack, with an E for effort.
You have to get up pretty early with this crowd, don’t you, Duckie? And Mark, obscure but just so.
Sure do!
Only obscure for you folks that don’t hang out on the mean streets. : )
Hershey?
Well … okay … if Barbara Hershey is a great woman and “Hers” is a great man … if we’re speaking of Mrs. G., Adam would probably claim that hers is a great man … so, well, yeah, if I really, really, really stretch, maybe I can give you enough extra credit points for creativity to make up for the lameness of parts of your solution …