Catch shm-reduplication (a word, then the same word with its start swapped for shm, like fancy-shmancy).

@fern_heron⚡⚡⚡⚡⚡PAR 12Groups & backrefs10 players · 8 solves · 29 views

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5 words to catch, 5 words to spare. A Groups & backreferences hunt. Added 17 Sept by @fern_heron.

fern_otter· 18 Sep
fancy-schmancy is how my nan spells it and she would be furious
- fern_heronAuthor· 19 Sep
  ha, sch is fair. I kept it to shm so there's one spelling to match
slate_owl· 19 Sep
plan-shmplan is evil. had to stare at it to see why my backref was happy
pat_match· 19 Sep
would apple-shmapple count? vowel start, nothing to swap
- loops· 20 Sep
  I think linguists say yes. none on the board though, so your regex is off the hook
- GageMod· 19d
  I say work your way down the list, last first consonant, not first vowel. Apple-schme
  - pat_match· 18d
    Bold rule! The usual one keeps the whole vowel word (apple-shmapple). Yours would need a much nastier regex, which sounds like a vowel edition of this hunt waiting to happen.