Spoilers for Thursday 28th February 2019 (Series 80, Prelim 27)

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Spoilers for Thursday 28th February 2019 (Series 80, Prelim 27)

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Dinos.
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Thomas Carey wrote: Thu Feb 28, 2019 12:50 pm Dinos.
Do you plan to say anything else until dinos's games are done?
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Dinos was unlucky there with tetragon. A good game though - a closer match makes for more exciting viewing!
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The word "Tetragon" is in my Shorter OED (Fifth edition, 2002) and even in my Concise Oxford (Seventh, 1982).
I wonder why SD did not allow that word.
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Vince Fernando wrote: Thu Feb 28, 2019 3:03 pm The word "Tetragon" is in my Shorter OED (Fifth edition, 2002) and even in my Concise Oxford (Seventh, 1982).
I wonder why SD did not allow that word.
Cos it's not in the dictionary Countdown uses!
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Annoyingly I had tetragon and two other words disallowed and missed the 9s, so lost today despite getting the numbers
(first one alt (100+9+1)x(10-6)-10; last one alt 2x75+5x7).
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Gavin Chipper:
What is the official countdown dictionary?
I thought it is the Oxford English Dictionary.
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Vince Fernando wrote: Thu Feb 28, 2019 5:25 pm Gavin Chipper:
What is the official countdown dictionary?
I thought it is the Oxford English Dictionary.
There's different versions though. They use the online one but the subscription version so the free one is only an approximation.
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Never seen a contestant get a 9 in his first 5 games.
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Gavin Chipper wrote: Thu Feb 28, 2019 5:27 pm
Vince Fernando wrote: Thu Feb 28, 2019 5:25 pm Gavin Chipper:
What is the official countdown dictionary?
I thought it is the Oxford English Dictionary.
There's different versions though. They use the online one but the subscription version so the free one is only an approximation.
The word "tetragon" is in the printed version of the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary. I did not use a free version.
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Vince Fernando wrote: Fri Mar 01, 2019 7:19 pm
Gavin Chipper wrote: Thu Feb 28, 2019 5:27 pm
Vince Fernando wrote: Thu Feb 28, 2019 5:25 pm Gavin Chipper:
What is the official countdown dictionary?
I thought it is the Oxford English Dictionary.
There's different versions though. They use the online one but the subscription version so the free one is only an approximation.
The word "tetragon" is in the printed version of the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary. I did not use a free version.
Countdown uses Oxford Dictionaries Online. TETRAGON in not in https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/searc ... y=tetragon , presumably because it's rare and QUADRILATERAL is the normal term.
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