Tips & tricks
3. Adding or dropping or a letter
If you add a letter to a word - or take one away - it can still sound very similar to the original.
The letter 'h' is the most obvious example because if you drop the letter you suddenly develop the London Cockney accent. In other words, i.e 'hat' becomes 'at' or 'hair' becomes 'air' and 'Professor Henry Higgins' becomes 'Professor Enry Iggins' (it's no coincidence that Rex Harrison's character's names both began with 'H' to stress the point!). So here can now become ear.
You can insert any letter anywhere in a word and you suddenly have lots more words to play with.
The Parliament in Iceland is called Althing
A recent Tourist Board ad read... 'Come to Niceland, all things bright & beautiful!!
An 'N' has been inserted at the start of 'Iceland' and an 'L' in the middle of Althing.
Using the method of dropping and adding a letter at the same time you have a lot more to play with. For example House and Owls, even though they are spelt very differently and at first sight don't look alike actually sound very alike.
You drop the 'h' of 'house' i.e 'ouse' and insert an 'l' in between the 'u' and 's' i.e 'oulse' which sounds remarkably like 'owls' and you.
