Most American English words differ from their British English counterparts in standard ways, such as color/colour, center/centre and realize/realise. What common seven-letter word in American English becomes its British English equivalent when an A is changed to a Y?

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Answer to contest No. 71

Of all the performers who have won more than one Academy Award for acting, the only two whose last names rhyme are Spencer Tracy and Kevin Spacey. Winner: Mark Clevenger of Muncie, Ind.