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Words / Re: Milliard and laminar - common?
« on: March 25, 2024, 07:20:56 PM »
I know neither word.

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Words / Re: Harakiri
« on: March 02, 2024, 11:16:24 PM »
Thanks, Alan.

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Words / Harakiri
« on: February 21, 2024, 11:11:42 PM »
I'm wondering if this might be suitable for inclusion as a rare word. It's often, probably usually, written as two hyphenated words but there are also examples of it written as a single word, not least in the title of a 1962 film.

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Whatever / AI
« on: February 16, 2024, 07:49:31 PM »
There's been talk of chatbots in another thread which made me wonder what people's view is of AI in general. Without a doubt it could  be hugely beneficial to us, but does anyone else share my fear that it will eventually become the third big threat to humankind, the other two being nuclear armagaddon and climate collapse? As far as I'm concerned it's just a case of which one wins the race.

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Words / Re: Calaboose
« on: January 28, 2024, 07:31:05 PM »
Good call, Alan.

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Words / Re: Calaboose
« on: January 26, 2024, 09:52:33 PM »
Pat, I don't think it's common in Australia either. Please see my post in the 7-by-many thread, and replies by others.

Ah. I don't read the 7-by-many thread so I didn't see the posts in there. I wondered why someone hadn't already questioned the word! But anyway, queried words need their own thread so that Alan sees them.

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Words / Calaboose
« on: January 26, 2024, 07:07:23 PM »
Calaboose (US, Australia,  dialect) A prison or jail/goal. A seed word played by 49 out of 323 people is common? I think not!

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Words / Re: Wednesday 3 January 7-by-many PRIMARILY puzzle
« on: January 24, 2024, 11:10:03 PM »
Sorry. Of course I meant to say as rare words. What a silly Billy!

😁

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Words / Re: Wednesday 3 January 7-by-many PRIMARILY puzzle
« on: January 24, 2024, 07:49:24 PM »
Are you sure you meant to say you'll add them as common words, Alan? That would go against the general 'rule' of making common a word that's generally only known in one country. And as you say yourself, it's most commonly written as two words anyway.

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Words / Re: Meerkat
« on: January 21, 2024, 12:13:59 AM »
Here's a collared peccary in Costa Rica.

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Words / Re: Meerkat
« on: January 20, 2024, 07:05:42 PM »
I feel we have unfairly targeted the Peccaries of the world!

 :) ;)

I think it's perhaps indicative of our lack of knowledge of the creatures we share this planet with.

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The Daily Quest / Re: Peccary in yesterday’s ten letter challenge
« on: January 14, 2024, 11:02:36 PM »
My vote would be for both words to be common. (Even thought I've never actually played either of them 😆.)

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The Daily Quest / Re: Peccary in yesterday’s ten letter challenge
« on: January 14, 2024, 11:55:18 AM »
Seems common enough to me.

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Words / Re: Daily 10 Letter, 16 April - SPOILER!
« on: January 01, 2024, 09:31:48 PM »
...both monopolising and monopolised are classed as common (though in practice they can't appear in any of our puzzles).

... at least not until we get 11- and 12- letter puzzles! 😄

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Words / Re: Monopolise rare?
« on: January 01, 2024, 09:16:57 PM »
Good decision, Alan. Thanks.

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