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Bob De Caux wrote:AEGROTATS in Round 8

I just saw Suzy Dent in Sainsbury's - I considered sidling up to her and whispering 'aegrotats' in her ear, but she looked a bit flustered, so I thought better of it.

(Watching a day behind at the moment)

A question for the geeky statistics-obsessed among you: Was this the biggest score drop ever from one show to the next?

In 1 round I thought I had a belter with SHADOUF - but it's only in the full OED as a variant spelling

I also have the Collins and was self-congratulating on ALIMENTAL (pooh). Yesterday it had SWATTER - it never ceases to amaze me how two similarly sized dictionaries can diverge so much.
Interestingly OxRef Online has ALIMENTAL in its Australian and New Zealand dictionaries.

I beat DC in round 11 with TOMTIT.

I've known about 3 Ah-runs and 0 Air-uns in my life and I've lived most of my life presuming 'air-ron' was the posh way of saying it. Off the top of my head I can't recall ever knowing anyone called Aaron, but until now I've only ever heard it pronounced "air-un" (or occasionally "ar...

I thought PLEATINGS would be ok too. Surely you could have dresses with lots of pleatings on them? Oh well, perhaps not. I'd better get myself an OED. Isn't it pleats, not pleatings? Oh yes, Naomi, you're probably right, I guess I was blown away by the fact that I'd actually 'found' a 9-letter word...

How come it's top of the list of most disallowed words? It's at the top of the Most Frequent Nines page actually. :!: The reasons for which are obvious. Yeah, I know that. But, at the time I posted, the same list was coming up whichever one I selected. I see Charlie's fixed that now, obviously with...

:oops: :oops: OK I'm a complete numptie. I used a capital letter to start the userid and forgot. Very sorry and thanks for the help Charlie. The slightly odd thing (from a programming point of view) is that when I had it uncapitalised it told me the password was wrong. When I tried his name as the i...

I have another stupid question. I think I've forgotten my password. What can I do? I know this sounds like I'm doing something truly dodgy (I'm not) but I set up a second account on Apterous and now I can't get into it. (Yes I did think for 1 millisecond that I COULD do the daily duel again but then...

Charlie Reams wrote:

Rufus Frog wrote:And has continued working. Except no Daily Duel. Sigh.

http://www.apterous.org/donate.php

For future reference, you can ask about this sort of thing in the chat pane and someone will probably help you out.

I must have been in with a bunch of newbies then as no one else seemed to know why.

Hi Douglas. I've had a very similar problem to you. I just wanted to reassure you, you are not alone! I signed up about a week ago. I could load the site and log on but couldn't Play at all for the first few days, kept getting access denied messages, then realised I was already connected to work via...

I was patient yesterday. Today I can get in (in Firefox at least, I eventually realised that IE was one cause of my access problems, another was trying to connect via my work's VPN - D'oh) and play real people but no daily duels (either yesterday's or today's). Other people say they are missing too ...

Fabulous game! I couldn't believe Steve had only been a QFist previously - what a great choice by the producers.

I bet David was gutted to be defeated by bug spray.

I think in the DARIOLES round there was also CARIOLES (possibly my only 8).

A different solution to 469 out of 100 9 8 7 6 3

((8x6 - 7) x 9) + 100