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Fill in the blank word: (myriad, Alito, lame, moose, fleas, wash, wide, ass, know, endeavor, worth, it, _____, wind, dilemmas, shirt, ago)

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    Hi Dielst, welcome to PSE! Please take the tour. Where did this question come from? Having the source written in the question if it was not original helps us spot plagiarism. Thank you. - From Review – Stevo Feb 26 '22 at 04:39
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    The original author of it, who may be me, gives permission for people to retell it. When someone figures out the trick to it they will be fairly certain they got it. – dielst Feb 26 '22 at 20:14
  • Your prior comment unfortunately allows others to infer that you are not the original author. As such, I'm voting to close this on the basis that proper attribution is required. If it's your puzzle, you can leave a comment here explicitly stating that it is of your own creation, and then vote to reopen. – Hazel へいぜる Mar 01 '22 at 14:59
  • It is my original creation. – dielst Mar 02 '22 at 22:54
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    Yes i thought it up all by myself, so how do i vote to re-open? I hereby vote to re-open it. – dielst Mar 05 '22 at 21:49

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I think the missing word is

merry

Reasoning

If you read the words in order it sounds like the first couple of lines from the nursery rhyme Mary Had a Little Lamb, that is

"Mary had a little lamb whose fleece was white as snow, and everywhere that Mary went, the lamb was sure to go"

sounds like

myriad, Alito, lame, moose, fleas, wash, wide, ass, know, endeavor, worth, it, merry, wind, dilemmas, shirt, ago

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