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Sunday, September 04, 2005

Peg words (nouns) from 00-99

The peg words in the following list are constructed from the consonant sounds of the two digits, connected by a long "o." There are some necessary exceptions.

00 Sosa
01 soda
02 Sony (a boom box)
03 soma (a pill)
04 sore (a scab)
05 sole (of a shoe)
06 soja (soldier)
07 soak (in a tub)
08 sofa
09 soap

0 sew (needle & thread)
1 dough
2 Noah
3 Mo (Three Stooges)
4 roe (fish eggs)
5 Lo (Jennifer Lopez)
6 Joe (St. Joseph statue)
7 Go (shiny black stone)
8 foe (devil)
9 Poe (Edgar Allan)

10 toes
11 tote
12 tone
13 tome (dictionary)
14 toro (bull)
15 toll (booth)
16 Tojo
17 toga
18 tofu
19 tope (drinking man)

20 nose
21 note
22 nun
23 gnome
24 knower (brain)
25 knoll
26 notch
27 Nokia (cell phone)
28 nova
29 nope (naysayer shaking head)

30 Mose
31 moat
32 moan
33 mome
34 mower
35 mole
36 mojo (doll)
37 mocha (w/Mickey on side)
38 mauve (a grape)
39 Moby (a whale)

40 rose
41 rota (helicopter rotor)
42 roan (red horse)
43 Rome (capitol dome)
44 rower
45 roll
46 roach
47 rogue
48 Rove
49 rope

50 Loew's (movie marquee)
51 lota (crystal goblet)
52 lone (Lee Harvey Oswald)
53 loam
54 lore (book of spells)
55 Lola
56 loge
57 logo
58 loaf
59 lobe

60 shoes
61 shoat
62 Shona
63 chum
64 shore (straight; see 78)
65 shul
66 judge
67 choke
68 Jove
69 shop (an exception; note short "o")

70 cosy (a teapot wrapper)
71 coat
72 cone
73 comb
74 core
75 coal
76 coach
77 Coke
78 cove (curved; see 64)
79 cope (hooded cape)

80 foci (foe-see: burning points under magnifying glasses)
81 photo
82 phone
83 foam
84 fore (golf ball)
85 foal
86 voyage
87 folk (an acoustic guitar)
88 fauve (wild animal -- Taz)
89 phobe (shivering coward)

90 pose (Rodin's Thinker)
91 poet (Homer)
92 pone (cornpone)
93 pome (apple)
94 pore
95 pole
96 poach (egg)
97 poke (hot poker)
98 pauve (impoverished ragged man; Raggedy Andy)
99 Pope

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