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Athey VR Pack 1, Paper 3 has this question of the "Move one letter from the first word into the second word to form two new words" type.

Q: FIRE and SCAR

DD's answer, and the book's, was FIR and SCARE.

I thought IRE and SCARF was a possible right answer as well. DD looked it up in her dictionary (Oxford Schools Dictionary) and there is no such word as IRE there .

I personally havent heard of IRE as a word - are you thinking of EIRE or ORE?

Yes, Long Journey, ire is a word which means anger or wrath.

janet71 wrote:I personally havent heard of IRE as a word - are you thinking of EIRE or ORE?

Ire, as in anger. Am I making it up? I thought irate comes from that.

I am amazed it is not in the dictionary - it is a word I do use occasionally. Surely I am not so old that a word I use in every day speech is considered old fashioned and banished from our standard vocabulary?!

Cross posts.

It's odd isn't it, that a dictionary wouldn't list it?

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definitely a word


Acts 19:28 Wycliffe Bible ..

Whanne these thingis weren herd, thei weren fillid with ire, and crieden, and seiden, Greet is the Dian of Effesians

Ire is definitely a word and I saw it recently as an answer in a Type F question (missing three letter word).

School Dictionaries are pretty short, compared with a 'proper' one. It's not in our Collins School Dictionary - that has irate, which is a lot more common I would say - but it's certainly in Chambers

Ire is most definitely a word.

IRE & SCARF is as valid an answer as FIR & SCARE.

Susan Daughtrey includes the question FIRE & LOWER in one of her books.

The answer, of course, is IRE & FLOWER.