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Words / Re: Monday 30 January 7-by-many EXULTANT puzzle
« on: February 01, 2023, 04:25:46 AM »
The OED lists the word as obsolete (in all its forms).
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Better to be a hasbeen, than a neverwas.🤣🤣🤣
I grew up in the US Central states (Kansas, Nebraska). I often heard the phrase "Given my druthers, I'd ..." and I've probably used it on occasion. I didn't play it because I didn't think it would be common.
To me, the word DRUTHERS is quite common in the US; my laptop dictionary marks it as "North American informal." That seems to be reason enough to omit it, as I infer from ther subtext of more than a few of the comments above. I have no problem with removing all North American informal words, as long as all UK informal words, Australian informal words, New Zealand informal words, and all informal words used in whatever community of native English speakers are likewise removed.
All my missed words I may have got in a lower scoring game, but brain overload set in. And courtesy of the #1 ladies detective agency I kept seeing Gaborone. And I would never consider baronage common! Probably unknown in the US.
Oh TRex that does conjure up a funny picture! I know it's not a laughing matter but it did make me chuckle. So very pleased you're on the mend
QuoteBiggest thing is developing confidence that ankle is nearly healed
I know exactly what you mean, TRex (I love writing that name, they were my absolute favourite band way back). I started off with a walking frame which made me feel about 150 years' old and then progressed to two crutches and then down to one. I remember thinking how on earth am I ever going go feel confident enough to walk unaided but of course I have got there eventually. The physio said walking is great but you are still relying on your other leg to do some of the work (!) so the Pilates is designed to strengthen the muscles and other stuff they cut through on the bad leg only. I suppose they know what they're talking about. Some days are better than others but they say it could take up to 18 months before I'm fully back to where I was as I have had "invasive and traumatic" surgery - yikes!
Physio went ok, Pen. Have been given some Pilates exercises which can be done lying down - my kind of exercise!! Trying to snow here so have ramped up the heating, despite the cost.
Being an Apple user, I had assumed it was an IOS vs Windows incompatibility.
The problem does not appear, so it confirms that the problem only occurs when the characters were first typed on Word.
The other question is I nearly always draft on word for posts of any length and I have not noticed it before. Why now?
I don't have the technical knowledge to see if it something to do with the fonts, so unless somebody can come up with a solution, we will just have to work around it.
P.S. It is not only a Word problem. I tried text generated by IOS Notes. It converts apostrophes to question marks too.
I have to admit that I haven't heard of cascara.
I don’t know about anyone else but, being a fan of Doctor Who, I was disappointed that tardis wasn’t allowed…