Appendix:Snowclones/you can't spell XYZ without Y

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you can't spell XYZ without Y

  1. (snowclone, informal) Implies a correlation between two items, where the second one is spelled with letters from the first one, usually in order.
    You can't spell sympathetic without pathetic.
    You can't spell awesome without me.