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Word Games / Re: 7 by many club
« on: June 03, 2023, 09:32:19 AM »
How can atwitter be common when so many of us missed it?

But then my definition of uncommon is if I don't get it!

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Word Games / Re: 7 by many club
« on: May 31, 2023, 05:28:26 PM »
I tell my sisters off when they miss nesses and I missed every ness!

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Words / Re: Saturday 20 May 7-by-many PASTIME puzzle
« on: May 21, 2023, 04:29:37 PM »
SITEMAP - Any nerd knows this! And so does Wikipedia.

Even though the heading is two words, throughout the text it is just one word.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Site_map

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Word Games / Re: 7 by many club
« on: May 18, 2023, 10:18:58 PM »
Jumping back a day or two to the question of how many Australians tried chookhouse. I did try it and was perturbed that it was not accepted because I think chookhouse is much more common in Australia than cookhouse.

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Words / Re: Monday 15 May 7-by-many COOKHOUSE puzzle
« on: May 16, 2023, 10:51:47 PM »
I was meaning to ask why chookhouse wasn't accepted as chookhouses are much more common (in Oz anyway) than cookhouses !

But then autocorrect just changed chookhouse to cookhouse.
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Chook comes from British dialect chuck(y) 'a chicken; a fowl' which is a variant of chick. Chook is the common term for the live bird, although chook raffles, held in Australian clubs and pubs, have ready-to-cook chooks as prizes.
https://slll.cass.anu.edu.au › centres

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Word Games / Re: 7 by many club
« on: May 01, 2023, 05:37:18 PM »
1 short in the bespoke puzzle. How could I miss 'boson', but the meaning explained why...

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Words / Re: Friday 7 April 7-by-many KVETCHES puzzle
« on: April 19, 2023, 09:49:45 PM »
Thank you Alan.

My Sephardi is much better than my Yiddish.

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Word Games / Re: 7 by many club
« on: April 19, 2023, 09:46:02 PM »
Lolly buy no lollypop again!

2 of the other 3 were ones I normally get, but I never get payola.

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Words / Re: Friday 7 April 7-by-many KVETCHES puzzle
« on: April 09, 2023, 03:21:45 PM »
KVETCH.

It took me a long time to drag it from the depths of my memory. An informal North American word of Yiddish origin unknown before the 1960s and now diminishing in use.

I vote for it to be classed as uncommon!

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"Having said that, I note that more than 1 in 3 players got the word."
                        I assisted my sisters in finding it as I thought it unfair on them to find a Yiddish word.

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Word Games / Re: 7 by many club
« on: March 13, 2023, 08:23:26 PM »
I missed umber. I could put it down to my colour blindness or that I have never heard of it. Or both!

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Word Games / Re: 7 by many club
« on: March 12, 2023, 05:39:57 PM »
I missed monotone.

But yesterday's was a collaboration with my 2 sisters as we were together to celebrate my older sister's birthday.  The first time in about 3 years we have been together.

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Word Games / Re: 7 by many club
« on: March 06, 2023, 05:51:00 PM »
Vesper but not vespers! Sounds like a plural to me.

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Word Games / Re: 7 by many club
« on: February 27, 2023, 09:54:10 PM »
There wasn't a Yobbo on the byroad, but there was a yabby!

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Word Games / Re: 7 by many club
« on: February 25, 2023, 08:51:56 AM »
TONGS still looks like a plural to me!

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Word Games / Re: 7 by many club
« on: February 23, 2023, 05:32:22 PM »
I'm an imitator of Blackrockrose but not  of John.

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