How Does It Feel (Slade song) following month. It reached No. 15, which was the band's first single not to reach the UK Top 5 since their 1971 breakthrough with "Get Down and Get with It". The melody of "How Does It Feel" was the first Lea had ever written, while he was still in school. He came up with the idea on an old piano which he later described as having half the keys missing. Although the tune never developed any further at that time, Lea later revisited it for use as the theme tune for "Flame". Holder wrote the song's lyrics and it became
Word ladder the "start word" (synonymous, antonymous, semantic...). This was also the way the game was originally devised by Lewis Carroll when it first appeared in "Vanity Fair". Some variations also allow the player to add or remove letters, and to rearrange the same letters into a different order (an anagram). Donald Knuth used a computer to study word ladders of five-letter words. He believed that three-letter word ladders were too easy (although Lewis Carroll found six steps were required for APE to evolve into MAN), and that six-letter word ladders were less interesting, since relatively few pairs of six-letter words could