7 by many club

[jancsika]

As far as I knew, the adjective form of tautology was tautological. Tautologous is new to me!

[Ozzyjack]

tautologous adjective
 
    ​(of a statement, etc.) saying the same thing twice in different words, when this is unnecessary, for example ‘They spoke in turn, one after the other.’

synonym tautological


tautological adjective 


    ​(of a statement, etc.) saying the same thing twice in different words, when this is unnecessary, for example ‘They spoke in turn, one after the other.’

synonym tautologous

If the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary is considered an authority, then it looks like tautologous and tautological are interchangeable.

[yelnats]

Autologous was about my first word and tautologous much later when I couldn't use tautology.

Typing this,  android changed tautologous to tautology in both lines.

[jancsika]

If you type tautological into Google you get over 10m results, whereas tautologous yields a mere 184,000.  The two words might be synonymous, but not equally frequent, it would appear.

[Maudland]

I didn’t get autologous, and only got tautologous as a guess - it’s not a word I’ve heard of (as opposed to tautological).

On a side note, is tannoy peculiar to British English?

[mkenuk]

 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.

[TRex]

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.

I've seen tannoy spelt without a capital often. I think it has become a 'generic trademark' like xerox and even google (though, probably because I do not use the Google search engine, I use the initial capital — and initially missed it as a word in the 7-by-many).

[Maudland]

Well, every day’s a school day! Thank you, Mike and TRex.

[ridethetalk]

I think tannoy as a generic term meaning speakers may be peculiar to the UK - I know Tannoy as a manufacturer of speakers but, probably, only because I was interested in hi-fi in my youth...

[TRex]

I think tannoy as a generic term meaning speakers may be peculiar to the UK - I know Tannoy as a manufacturer of speakers but, probably, only because I was interested in hi-fi in my youth...

I think it is peculiar to the UK. In the U.S., the usual term is 'public address (system)' usually shortened to 'PA'.

[jancsika]

I managed to forget that shy is not only an adjective, but also a verb and a noun. Again.

[Maudland]

So annoying when that happens!

[Maudland]

Dagnamnit, I missed slyly in the last puzzle - such a simple word! Not so cunning. At least I wasn’t alone in that! Bloomin’ y …

[Dragonman]

THESES cost me a rosette, but miles off a maven.

[auntiemo]

I was the 1 person who got shiest (not common) but missed shies....the one which cost me a rosette.