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Friday 16 September 10-letter PLAYGROUND puzzle
« on: September 18, 2022, 07:15:30 PM »
RAYGUN – surely a word??? The dictionaries seem to spell it as two words or hyphenated but I can distinctly remember having got one for xmas as a child and I’m sure it was a single word… https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/raygun
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Re: Friday 16 September 10-letter PLAYGROUND puzzle
« Reply #1 on: September 19, 2022, 02:33:32 AM »
Did it work?
Where you able to evaporate anyone?
Would you have liked to?
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Re: Friday 16 September 10-letter PLAYGROUND puzzle
« Reply #2 on: September 19, 2022, 09:37:40 AM »
Oh, Gareth, what can I say? All those whom it evaporated are no longer here to complain about it...  >:D >:D >:D
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Re: Friday 16 September 10-letter PLAYGROUND puzzle
« Reply #3 on: September 21, 2022, 01:55:27 PM »
Yes, ray gun is the usual spelling, but as your link shows, Wiktionary recognises the single word form as a variant. And it is sometimes written that way. Of the fourteen citations given in the online Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction, three write raygun, three ray-gun and the rest use ray gun. (The first known usage was in 1917.)

I'll add raygun as a rare word. But please use it responsibly.
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Re: Friday 16 September 10-letter PLAYGROUND puzzle
« Reply #4 on: September 21, 2022, 02:18:19 PM »
Thanks Alan - I'll put my raygun away now...  >:D >:D >:D
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