19.2837 — Transformative Linguistics

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1. Take the name of LSC's butter machine, write it down, and stare at it.
2. Change the first letter of your word to the first letter in the name of the mascot of the second floor of the east parallel of Fred the Dorm.
3. Find the letter in your word that corresponds with the number of the department housed in E10. Change it to the first letter in the last name of the author of The Idea Factory - Learning to Think at MIT.
4. Change the fourth letter of the word to the last letter of the beaver's name in the first and only publication of the East Campus Alcohol Education Group.
5. Take away the letter found in the name of DS9's shape-shifter.
6. Reverse the order of the letters.
7. Take the number of shows Sondheim has written that were on Broadway, multiply it by 2, and add 3 to that. Remove the letter corresponding to this number from your word.
8. Change the vowel in your word to the next-to-last letter in the title of the book traditionally read on Bloomsday (June 16th).

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Errata: The last clue originally said "last letter". It was changed to "next-to-last letter".