The second word in each pair is created by taking the middle two letters of the first word and then adding the first letter of the first word and the last letter of the first word.
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Nov122025
A number of people have broken the sound barrier, either in a superfast car, or in nice fancy planes. However, hundreds of years ago it was broken on horseback.
Many people who ride horses carry whips. They crack the whip while they ride the horse. When a whip is cracked, the tip travels faster than the speed of sound, which makes the loud snap. It actually creates a miniature sonic boom of sorts. The whip breaks the sound barrier, thus, it was broken on horseback.