Less the Initial, Still the Same

About

Pairs of words, bigrams, that demonstrate aphesis, or that differ in spelling only by the loss or absence of the initial letter or phoneme in one word of the pair, e.g. croquet and roquet. The words in each pair mean essentially the same.

If you like this sort of wordplay, visit mollusque's list On With Their Heads to browse words that make other words with the addition of another initial letter.