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It’s said that when Gustave Doré bought a villa on the outskirts of Paris, he had this notation inscribed over the entrance:

musical pun: domicile a dore

Do mi si la do re = “Domicile à Doré.” Get it?

Longfellow wrote, “Music is the universal language of mankind.”

Alternades

Interleave the letters in LUG and ONE and you get LOUNGE. Similarly:

SOT + PUS = SPOUTS
SHOE + COLD = SCHOOLED
CANES + HILT = CHAINLETS
CLIPS + ALOE = CALLIOPES
FETES + LENS = FLEETNESS
TINILY + RENAL = TRIENNIALLY

And three words can be merged to produce a fourth:

DOT + ERE + CAD = DECORATED
LET + ARE + CAD = LACERATED
LET + IRE + BAD = LIBERATED
MET + ORE + DAD = MODERATED
SAT + ERE + PAD = SEPARATED
SIR + ILL + MAY = SIMILARLY
TUT + ALE + BAD = TABULATED