Word game: Last letters link

[pommystuart]

I am sure you would have made a friend in an

Eohippus

if you fed it milk and oreos.

[jil]

Just don't give it

usquebaugh

[pommystuart]

What a

ghastly

thought, a drunken Eohippus.

[leelaht]

It would be ghastly if the drunken eohippus had a

lytta

because that would mean it was likely carnivorous.

[Randi]

Yes, but only a drunken eohippus. A sober eohippus would

take

care to avoid contact with a lytta since they are a genus of blister beetles.

[leelaht]

There are 3 species of blister beetle common in

Kentucky.

Eohippus probably lived in Kentucky too...

[Randi]

I wonder if they mine

Kyanite

in Kentucky

[leelaht]

Doesn't seem likely. But you might find someone in Kentucky wearing a kyanite

tennis

bracelet.

[jil]

Possibly someone called

Isabella

[Randi]

On the subject of tennis...

The original forms of tennis developed in France during the

late

Middle Ages. The modern form of tennis originated in Birmingham, England, in the late 19th century as lawn tennis. It had close connections to various field (lawn) games such as croquet and bowls as well as to the older racket sport today called real tennis.

[leelaht]

It was not until the 16th century that rackets came into use and the game began to be called "tennis", from the French term

tenez,

[pommystuart]

I wonder if a boy named

Ezechiel

ever played tennis?

Ezechiel is a Hebrew name for boys. The meaning is `God gives strength` The name Ezechiel is most commonly given to French boys. (29 times more often than to American boys.)

[Randi]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennis#Ball_changes

In ITF tournaments like Fed Cup, the balls are changed after every

eleven

games (rather than nine) with the first change occurring after only nine games (instead of seven) [because the first set of balls is also used for the pre-match warm-up].

[leelaht]

11 (eleven) is the natural number following 10 and preceding 12. It is the first repdigit. In English, it is the smallest positive integer whose name has three syllables. "Eleven" derives from the Old English

ęndleofon,

which is first attested in Bede's late 9th-century Ecclesiastical History of the English People.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/11_(number)

[Randi]

[pommystuart]

Having (joking)

onomatophobia

I fear what words will come up next.

[leelaht]

How about a quote from

Iago.

'Demand me nothing; what you know, you know. / From this time forth I never will speak word." [His last words.]

[jil]

I'm not sure a quote from a tragedy is a

good

idea for someone suffering from onomatophobia

[pommystuart]

Thanks for the thoughts, but I don't want to be the

oddman

out, so continue as normal(ish) as possible.

[Randi]

By all means, lets have something more

anodyne