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rhino

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Childhood Diseases
« on: December 15, 2020, 04:35:41 PM »
It's been a while since I have made word suggestions or even contributed to the forum - thought it was about time when I realised that this word was not recognised in the 7 by Many puzzle of 15 December 2020:

     mumps - there would definitely not be a single form of the word ...

What about other childhood diseases?

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Re: Childhood Diseases
« Reply #1 on: December 15, 2020, 07:27:11 PM »
Lovely to hear from you Rhino. Always trying to follow your lead. Completely agree. If measles is common, mumps should follow.
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Re: Childhood Diseases
« Reply #2 on: December 15, 2020, 08:43:09 PM »
Hi, rhino. Good to hear from you.

You say, "there would definitely not be a single form of the word". That's true, but that doesn't mean there is no word mump. There is, with a number of meanings, none directly related to the disease, and mump is an accepted word in Chi. That's why mumps is not allowed at present.

It does seem to be a fairly similar situation to measles, which was discussed here. Measles is allowed as a common word, while measle is accepted as a rare word. Maybe this is the way to go with mump/mumps.
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Re: Childhood Diseases
« Reply #3 on: December 16, 2020, 07:47:23 AM »
Hear hear. Are you going to do it Alan?
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Re: Childhood Diseases
« Reply #4 on: December 16, 2020, 07:49:42 AM »
I'm with Jacki.
mumps has to be allowed

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Re: Childhood Diseases
« Reply #5 on: December 16, 2020, 11:03:57 AM »
I don't suppose hives (urticaria) will be considered, but what about rickets?

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Re: Childhood Diseases
« Reply #6 on: December 16, 2020, 04:36:40 PM »
Mkenuk, hives was considered, nearly accepted, and then rejected in the early days of the forum - see here for example. It seems there's no such thing as a "ricket", so rickets is OK.

My apologies for talking about measles while it was a word that could be played in the then-current Challenge puzzle. I had played that puzzle, but hadn't thought of measles. (Just as, in all probability, I won't think of mumps if that becomes permitted.)

Over the last few years I've been wary about making any changes relating to plurals, for fear of creating more uncertainty than I eliminate. So I may not be rushing in to make this change.
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Re: Childhood Diseases
« Reply #7 on: December 18, 2020, 09:32:26 AM »

My apologies for talking about measles while it was a word that could be played in the then-current Challenge puzzle. I had played that puzzle, but hadn't thought of measles. (Just as, in all probability, I won't think of mumps if that becomes permitted.)


Quite frankly, I am more than surprised that the spoiler police haven't jumped in by now, as both Rhino and Alan posted while the words they were discussing were part of active puzzles.
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Re: Childhood Diseases
« Reply #8 on: December 18, 2020, 10:11:41 AM »

Quite frankly, I am more than surprised that the spoiler police haven't jumped in by now, as both Rhino and Alan posted while the words they were discussing were part of active puzzles.

Yes, it's quite shocking. Those spoiler police really should be more on the ball.
« Last Edit: December 19, 2020, 03:43:23 AM by pat »

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Re: Childhood Diseases
« Reply #9 on: December 19, 2020, 06:59:17 PM »
Can anybody explain why Pat's quote by rogue mother is dated February 05, 1975?!
Is there a spanner in the works?  Or am I seeing things?
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Re: Childhood Diseases
« Reply #10 on: February 21, 2021, 12:43:43 PM »
Can anybody explain why Pat's quote by rogue mother is dated February 05, 1975?!
Is there a spanner in the works?  Or am I seeing things?
Hi Val,

You can dismiss the psychiatrist  :D  You weren't seeing things.

I can't tell you how it happened but I can tell you what produced the result. The first line in the code block is what should have been used. Somehow the 6 at the end got deleted to give the third line.

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[quote author=rogue_mother link=topic=4308.msg66928#msg66928 date=160824434]
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If you copy the text in the code block to here where it will be executed you get -


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« Last Edit: February 21, 2021, 12:48:20 PM by Ozzyjack »
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Re: Childhood Diseases
« Reply #11 on: February 21, 2021, 05:08:13 PM »
Thanks Jack.  Still none the wiser.  Despite your excellent attempt at explaining it to a dotty old woman.  Always at the ranch.  Just don't like interrupting the play.  So to speak.
Hope you're enjoying the Sunshine State.  It's been pathetic weatherwise down 'ere.  Until today, we've had the central heating on.  Go figure!
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Re: Childhood Diseases
« Reply #12 on: February 22, 2021, 12:26:43 AM »
Hot and humid here. We have visitors from Hobart...our air-con is running almost constantly trying to cope with the humidity.
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« Reply #13 on: February 22, 2021, 01:33:56 AM »
I tried mumps again in yesterday's 7-by-many. Sigh.

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Re: Childhood Diseases
« Reply #14 on: February 24, 2021, 10:28:21 AM »
Mumps will be accepted from now on as a non-plural word. It will be classed as common.

The singular mump was actually classed as a common word. As I mentioned before, mump has various obscure dialect usages unrelated to the disease mumps. In future mump will be a rare word.
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