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Words / Re: aircon
« on: September 22, 2021, 03:34:43 PM »
Neither is Jacki's ack!

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Words / Re: aircon
« on: September 22, 2021, 02:05:40 PM »
The Thai word for 'air-conditioner' sounds something like 'kreuangprapakaat'.
They usually just call it 'air'!

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Words / aircon
« on: September 22, 2021, 10:23:40 AM »
Does anyone else know or use the word aircon as an abbreviation for air-conditioning?
It's not part of Chi's lexicon, and COD has only AC /ac as short forms.

I know from experience, however. that the word is in common usage among English speakers in hot countries and Google Ngram viewer will testify to its popularity. Maybe it is hyphenated, but I will still suggest it as an addition to Chi's vocab list.
 
After all, if situation comedy can become sitcom, why not aircon?

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Words / suggestion - notator
« on: September 21, 2021, 02:50:25 PM »
notator - 'one who notates'.

re the exonerate 7bm game

'not known' in Chi, but known by COD ('in which we trust')

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Word Games / Re: Word question/suggestion
« on: September 20, 2021, 09:29:35 PM »
I agree with Pat. I have never used anagram solvers and the like and I don't troll through the dictionary looking for words that fit the letters; I try to play only words that I know and can define - at least to myself!
It happens occasionally that I have a 'serendipity' moment - checking the form of nucleic a few days ago,  I accidentally came across nucleonic and nucleoli, both of which I played - well, It would have been churlish not to!.

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Word Games / Re: 7 by many club
« on: September 20, 2021, 09:03:36 PM »
Six so far.
I went belly-up on sextuplet a few days ago; I missed teletext ....and useless! would you believe?

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Words / Re: September 19 7-by-many Word Suggestion
« on: September 20, 2021, 02:07:38 AM »
Dare I mention that atopic is already allowed in Chi and *spoiler alert* is actually playable (uncommon)  in the current 7-by-many game?

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Words / Re: Thursday 16 September 7-by-many HOLINESS puzzle
« on: September 17, 2021, 09:01:20 PM »
soonish is a word - at least it is in COD.

I noticed also that oneish (= 'about one o'clock') was rare, but in another recent game tennish (= 'about ten o'clock') got 'sorry, not known'.
I wonder what Chi makes of smartish, which can be almost synonymous with soonish?

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Whatever / Re: More or Les (was Bloody Plurals)
« on: September 17, 2021, 10:24:58 AM »
This may be my last rebus for a couple of weeks.
Although I  retired from full-time teaching some years ago, I have been asked to write and record some online lessons for Thai students who are still confined to their homes as a result of covid.
However, in the immortal words of either Arnold Schwarzenegger or Gen'l Douglas Macarthur - I shall return; I'll be back.

A 1997 film based on a 1994 book,

eight words - 8/2/3/6/2/4/3/4

The positioning of at least one of the pictures is significant

I've a feeling I may have used this one before - never mind.  It's a great film; I've not read the book



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Words / Re: two word suggestions
« on: September 17, 2021, 03:03:13 AM »
the term derecho was created by Gustavus Detlef Hinrichs, a Danish-born scientist who 'was fluent in Danish, French, German, Italian, and English, and knew some Greek and Latin' in 1888.

He obviously knew a little Spanish too;


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Words / nucleoli common?
« on: September 16, 2021, 04:06:35 PM »
re the recent 7bm game.

There were actually two 'seed words' - nucleonic which was 'rare' and managed to muster 73 hits from a 'playership' of 351.
That was still more than the 'common' seed word (nucleoli) which had 52!

I got them both, but only because, having seen and played nuclei, I checked the COD to see if nucleic was also a word. That's when I spotted the other two, further down the page.

I think nuclei should remain common, although there has been a tendency to 'downgrade' Latin plurals, but the others?



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Whatever / Re: More or Les (was Bloody Plurals)
« on: September 16, 2021, 10:54:20 AM »
The link between Pen's rebus and the two cartoons underneath it was noted. The next full moon is on Tuesday 21st , by the way.

Moving a few wiles north, my rebus shows something which began operations in September 1825; It was the first of its kind in the world.

four words - 8/3/10/7

picture 4 - cut the last letter
picture 5 - rare in Chi, but common in some places

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Whatever / Re: More or Les (was Bloody Plurals)
« on: September 15, 2021, 10:19:33 PM »
Hi John,

I haven't seen these signs in situ but these are some Australian signs I like from the net.

   

The last one is not true - they have been in lock down since midnight

Anyone who is not easily shocked might like to look at the Wikipedia page on possibly the most notorious of all English street names.


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


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Whatever / Re: More or Les (was Bloody Plurals)
« on: September 15, 2021, 06:07:55 PM »
Fairly straightforward
A 1964 play by Peter Schaffer that became a 1969 film starring Robert Shaw

six words - 3/5/4/2/3/3

picture 4 - first two letters only

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Word Games / Re: 7 by many club
« on: September 14, 2021, 11:00:39 AM »
 re tannoy
I think it's a trademark and probably should have a capital; however the same could be said for  roneo and xerox and they are both allowed.

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