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I know Americans use "math" for what Brits call "maths" but I think they both take a singular verb.
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Words / the OTHER 9-letter word from yesterday's (Sunday) game
« on: October 29, 2007, 01:26:08 PM »
Here I thought I'd found a really great 9-letter word in record time and it wasn't allowed:
tunnelman - and the definition I found -
In anthracite coal mining, one who drives a tunnel in rock from one coal seam to another or through a fault (the movement of the earth having separated a once continuous seam into two sections). DOT
Source: Dictionary of Mining, Mineral, and Related Terms
tunnelman - and the definition I found -
In anthracite coal mining, one who drives a tunnel in rock from one coal seam to another or through a fault (the movement of the earth having separated a once continuous seam into two sections). DOT
Source: Dictionary of Mining, Mineral, and Related Terms
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This was disallowed a few days ago.
It may be (very) local usage, but the maintainers (like custodians, but often requiring higher skills) in my old job were always "relamping" - changing light bulbs or fluorescent tubes. They used it as if it were a standard term.
It may be (very) local usage, but the maintainers (like custodians, but often requiring higher skills) in my old job were always "relamping" - changing light bulbs or fluorescent tubes. They used it as if it were a standard term.
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Words / 4 words in Saturday's standard puzzle that weren't allowed
« on: October 21, 2007, 10:53:59 AM »
These were all in the Random House Unabridged, 2nd ed.
demos: the common people, populace; sociol.: a people viewed as a political unit.
menudo: a spicy Mexican soup made with tripe, onions, tomatoes, chilies, and hominy. [it was also a Puerto Rican musical group in the 80s, I think - I believe they were actually named for the soup]
nemo: radio and TV: remote: broadcast, usually live, from a location outside a studio.
unmossed: adj. - one of the "un-" words listed with no definition
demos: the common people, populace; sociol.: a people viewed as a political unit.
menudo: a spicy Mexican soup made with tripe, onions, tomatoes, chilies, and hominy. [it was also a Puerto Rican musical group in the 80s, I think - I believe they were actually named for the soup]
nemo: radio and TV: remote: broadcast, usually live, from a location outside a studio.
unmossed: adj. - one of the "un-" words listed with no definition
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Words / add lauds?
« on: October 19, 2007, 11:00:55 AM »
Tried to use this yesterday, but I'm sure it was read as either a plural noun or a verb form. I was thinking of the canonical hour, usually used with matins. The dictionary (Random House, 2nd ed.) says it can be used with either a singular or plural verb. What can I say? I read medieval romances.
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Words / add "barf"?
« on: October 18, 2007, 01:20:09 AM »
yesterday's puzzle didn't allow "barf" - in my old dictionary (Random House 2nd ed.) listed as a noun but I always hear it used as a verb now, with all the regular verb form endings. Oh, in case you don't use it in Oz, it means vomit.