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General Category => Words => Topic started by: rogue_mother on December 04, 2018, 03:27:24 AM
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Periodically I try to play the word peloton, and every time it fails to be accepted, I make mental note to myself to request its addition to the Chihuahua lexicon. Such an occasion occurred last week, but my mind being what it is, the note failed to stir any action until today. For those unfamiliar with the word, it is the main cluster of cyclists in a bicycle race. RF also refers to clusters of cars on an expressway as pelotons, which is where I first learned the word.
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I have come across pelaton RM while watching snippets of the Tour de France.
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I know the word and its meaning but I probably wouldn’t spot it in a game.
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Ditto, Pat, particularly as I've only ever heard and not read it, and thought it was spelt "peleton"!
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I too have tried peloton on many an occasion and cannot understand why it isn't accepted. I live in Australia and don't ride a bike however I think many people would have heard the word mentioned in relation to the Tour de France at the very least.
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I've heard of it from cycle racing, but wasn't sure of the spelling, so I looked it up in dictionary.com
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/peloton
and it is Bohemian glass, but all the examples have nothing to do with glass; just cycling and horses!
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I too have tried peloton on many an occasion and cannot understand why it isn't accepted.
I’d imagine the word is a relatively new addition to the English language, one of those French words that we’ve adopted. There are many words ‘missing’ from the Chi lexicon, not because Alan doesn’t think they should be included but because the original word list was imported en bloc and those words weren’t present at the time. That’s why there are frequent suggestions for words to be included, as and when people try to play words that aren’t currently accepted.
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The marvellous Neil Innes answered with this word yesterday with a Tour de France question on Christmas University Challenge. I thought well I be buggered!
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A word I've never come across, but that's not surprising since I don't pay too much attention to sports.
R-M, my brother always refers to the cluster of cars on a highway as "the belly of the fish," which I believe he said was the nickname (French?) for a mathematical concept of a bell curve that was fat in the middle and slim at each end.
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The marvellous Neil Innes answered with this word yesterday with a Tour de France question on Christmas University Challenge. I thought well I be buggered!
I watch Christmas University Challenge every year but I haven’t seen any reference to this year’s in my TV guide. Which channel was it on?
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Pat, it was a previous year’s Christmas university Challenge. I think the last one is on BBC4 tonight.
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Thanks, Jock. I see it now. I thought I’d missed this year’s.
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Sorry Pat, t'was a repeat/recording I saw.
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t'was a repeat/recording I saw.
The Australian Broadcasting Commission now has "encores". I think because they've already done the repeat.
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A word I've never come across, but that's not surprising since I don't pay too much attention to sports.
And does this count as serendipity, or coincidence? Today I just got an on-line ad for a peloton bike. I suppose I will now see the word constantly.
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Well, if you googled the word, I think you may be seen as a potential customer target for a while! I suspect neither coincidence nor serendipity.
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I'll bet you're right - I've seen several more ads since then.
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I had cause to search for an email from a friend with a surname of Corney in my Yahoo account. Less than 5 minutes later I was served with an ad for holiday cottages in Corney, Cumbria.
Big brother is watching, as well as Google, Bing, Yahoo etc...
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JCC searches with DuckDuckGo, because they say they don't track you.
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JCC searches with DuckDuckGo, because they say they don't track you.
I've used DuckDuckGo for years for this reason.
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Just tried out DuckDuckGoGo for a couple of topics I've been searching for in the last couple of day on Chrome. I found it very interesting that one site, with internal links, had the internal links I checked yesterday with Google marked as having been searched. So does that mean that the site recognized my computer, or is there a more sinister interpretation that They Really Are Spying on Me?
"They" are, by the way. Since I consider that nothing on my computer is hidden from Them anyway, I've signed up for one of the tracking programs, which pays me a piddling amount each month if I remember to let them know how to pay me.
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DuckDuckGo sends your search terms to a variety of search engines and returns the results (more details at Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuckDuckGo)). It seems to be heavy on Google, but as far as Google (or any of DuckDuckGo's sources) can tell, it is a request from DuckDuckGo.
Besides the privacy aspect, it eliminates the damnable filter bubble which contributes to polarization of politics (and other fields).
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R-M, my brother always refers to the cluster of cars on a highway as "the belly of the fish," which I believe he said was the nickname (French?) for a mathematical concept of a bell curve that was fat in the middle and slim at each end.
And I had a chance to ask my brother what it was, and he said it was a Poisson curve (hence the fish reference).
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Pat, hope you’ve noticed that this year’s Christmas University Challenge has started.
Jock
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Yes, Jock, I’ve been watching it. But thanks for telling me. I find that in these so-called ‘celebrity’ editions of quizzes the questions get dumbed right down (e.g. the general knowledge questions in Mastermind) but UC doesn’t seem to dumb them down quite as much.
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They certainly dumb them down a bit, because I find I can answer a lot more of them in the “alumni” version than in the ordinary ones!
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But how many can you solve in 'Only Connect'? Ridiculously difficult!
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You're right Linda. Unbelievably difficult but strangely compulsive viewing. Sometimes do quite well with the connecting wall but the rest of it I'm usually lost!
Penny
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I’m best at the end bit of ‘Only Connect’, the bit where they leave all the vowels out.
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That's my best part too, Pat. Very rarely manage to solve the clues on the connecting wall but feel v. smug when I do solve a row!
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Just watching ‘celebrity’ Mastermind.
Question: Bogotá is the capital of which South American country?
Answer: Nigeria.
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And here is the Oxford's definition:
https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/peloton
Can't believe this is an "unknown" word. Pah!
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Hear hear
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Hear hear!
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Sorry. I'd never heard of peloton before RM suggested its inclusion recently.
I do know pelota, the Basque /Spanish game -(I even had a go at that years ago when I was much younger and much, much fitter!)
I'm not really interested in bicycle races; that's probably why I don't know the word.
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The Tour de France is rolling around again in a few weeks, so I'd better answer this suggestion. Whatever the reason peloton has been absent from our list in the past, it is certainly in plenty of dictionaries now, so I will add it as a rare word.
I sometimes think of the Chihuahua scoreboard in terms of a peloton, especially when a puzzle has only recently started. The chart under the scoreboard sometimes shows a sizable peloton, but with a few players having broken away to form a leading group. That's the group you'd like to be in. You certainly don't want to be in the autobus, the group straggling along behind the peloton.
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I think that I'm mostly behind in the stragglers though I do very occasionally creep up to the peloton! Maybe I need a new bike!!
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You can actually pass the peloton...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JoQT23LCmg (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JoQT23LCmg)