musical parlor game

This is fauxklore's fault. :-)

There is a parlor game called Encore, in which the object is to sing a portion of a song containing the challenge word. You have to include at least eight consecutive words (including the challenge word) for it to count. What makes this fun for the challenger (in this case, me) is to try to come up with words that aren't found in a lot of songs. (And where I fail in that, maybe I'll learn about some previously-unknown music. :-) ) I promise that I have not used any language-analysis or statistical tools in assembling this list (which I mention because I used to work for a company that did such things).

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