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Whatever / Re: More or Les (was Bloody Plurals)
« on: August 25, 2021, 09:08:39 AM »
You're looking for the tagline from a 1979 film that was (sorry!) monstrously successful.

seven words, one of them hyphenated - 2/5/5/3/4/3/6

pictures 2-3 - cut either the last letter of '2' or the first letter of '3'

Yes, sorry - 'The Sheep' is back!!


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Words / Re: Rude word suggestion
« on: August 25, 2021, 08:28:46 AM »
Sure it should be allowed, along with asshole.
Presumable the respective 'British' spellings arsewipe and arsehole will also be allowed.
They are simply words, after all, combinations of letters on a page.

Actually, the archetypal 'visitor from space', forced to watch Netflix TV shows for 24 hours non-stop might well be surprised that these words were classed as 'rare'!

 ;D

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Whatever / Re: More or Les (was Bloody Plurals)
« on: August 24, 2021, 09:47:23 AM »
A 2014 New Zealand film, usually classified as a 'mockumentary', that, with the setting changed to US, has become a major TV hit for Netflix.

six words - 4/2/2/2/3/7

picture 1 - cut the middle letter
picture 2 -3 - 4 - cut the last letter
picture 6 - well, I can remember them!


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Words / gestate (uncommon). Really?
« on: August 23, 2021, 09:39:07 PM »
re the recent vaguest 7-by many game.

gestate was played by well over 50% of those who took part in the game (190 from 355); even suggest only had one more hit;
I seem to recall that gestation has appeared as a seed-word at some time in the past; perhaps Alan could confirm or deny this.
Whatever, I would suggest that, for once, instead of reclassifying a 'common' word as 'rare', we should do the opposite and make gestate common.

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Whatever / Re: More or Les (was Bloody Plurals)
« on: August 23, 2021, 10:20:51 AM »
Quote from: Hobbit on August 23, 2021, 04:27:05 AM
  There are very few cheeses I don't like but brie & camembert are the exceptions.  Zoe loves baked camembert.  Oh & goats cheese gives me the willies ???  One of my favourite cheeses, apart from a good strong cheddar, is stilton.  The laksa looked very delish

couldn't resist it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hz1JWzyvv8A

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Whatever / Re: More or Les (was Bloody Plurals)
« on: August 23, 2021, 09:54:06 AM »
A BBC series that first appeared in 2012;
My rebus is in two parts - first the name of the series and then the name of the lady on whose memoirs the series is based 

three words - 4/3/7

picture 3 - first syllable only
picture 5 - the girls' name given to this 'revolutionary' device
picture 7 - change 'F' to 'W'


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Word Games / Re: 7 by many club
« on: August 22, 2021, 05:02:22 PM »
Quote from: doxydaisy on August 22, 2021, 03:13:50 PM
Following on from Stan's post I've come across words through various puzzles like grevillea (flowering plant) and alsatian (breed of dog) which have shown 'not known' that I find baffling as I think both are known but not necessarily common. I'm not going to make work for Alan as I know he has enough on his plate.

I think Alsatian is written with a capital letter (from Alsace).
Common, certainly but it doesn't follow the 'no capitals' rule.

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Words / Re: faerie
« on: August 22, 2021, 04:27:15 PM »
I'm sure that it's not the word that most people would use if they wanted a packet of paracetamol to cure their hangover. They'd go to the chemist, the pharmacy or the drugstore.
However, as the name of a particular trade I think it ranks with chandler,cooper, wainwrightand fletcher - trades which were once common and which should be familiar to our 'educated native speakers'.

Common it may not be, but obsolete it certainly isn't.

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Words / Re: faerie
« on: August 22, 2021, 01:55:45 PM »
Yes, still in use today, which I think it is,

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Words / Re: faerie
« on: August 22, 2021, 01:50:28 PM »
Ah, you misunderstand me Jacki. This is not about whether the word is 'common' or not (that's for Alan to decide), but rather whether it is 'obsolete' or not. This is much clearer - it most certainly is not obsolete.


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Whatever / Re: More or Les (was Bloody Plurals)
« on: August 22, 2021, 12:03:10 PM »
Hope you don't fall off your surfboard at Surfers' Paradise.
Sounds idyllic.

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Whatever / Re: More or Les (was Bloody Plurals)
« on: August 22, 2021, 09:27:27 AM »
Easy one for today
Simply tell me what I am listening to while making up this rebus

six words - 3/4/7/2/7/7

picture 7 - drop the final letter
pictures 8-10 - combine the first parts of the names of these three celebs

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Words / Re: faerie
« on: August 22, 2021, 09:13:22 AM »
I wonder how many people read, study, watch, listen to or act in Shakespeare's 'Romeo and Juliet' every day.

The apothecary appears in every one of them.

Sorry, while Shakespeare is still around, apothecary is far from obsolete.

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Word Games / Re: 7 by many club
« on: August 21, 2021, 05:19:34 PM »
It [today's 'big word'] has a lot of people stumped;
no clues, but using the 'shuffle' facility repeatedly is what I do in that situation. It often works.

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Whatever / Re: More or Les (was Bloody Plurals)
« on: August 21, 2021, 09:34:10 AM »
Published in 1934, this was the last major novel by one of America's great twentieth century authors.
A 1962 movie of the novel starred Jason Robards and Joan Fontaine

four words - 6/2/3/5

picture 3 - middle letters only


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