Spoilers for Thursday 8th July 2021

[Philip A]

We didn’t get UNPENAL in R1.

Susie offered ELASTICS, albeit without reason why; says mass noun but two example sentences give the plural – I wonder now if examples are still used for mass noun rulings, but not for capitalised or two-word entries. PLASTICS given as a count noun.

[Rhys Benjamin]

I mean, I've given my thoughts in today's recap and I have ticketed it. http://c4countdown.co.uk/viewtopic.php? ... 5049d744ff

[Fiona T]

I mean, I've given my thoughts in today's recap and I have ticketed it. http://c4countdown.co.uk/viewtopic.php? ... 5049d744ff

You definitely get hair elastics and as a kid we used to play 'elastics' a skipping game with elastic looped round ankles - not as kinky as it sounds...

But the dictionary doesn't mention the kids game.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ag9Ou0YpD0o&t=120s

[Rhys Benjamin]

Well, quite - should be allowed by common sense, but by the letter of the law, it shouldn't be.

[Sam Cappleman-Lynes]

We didn’t get UNPENAL in R1.

Susie offered ELASTICS, albeit without reason why; says mass noun but two example sentences give the plural – I wonder now if examples are still used for mass noun rulings, but not for capitalised or two-word entries. PLASTICS given as a count noun.

This episode was filmed before the statement about example sentences no longer being used for adjudication was made.

[Fiona T]

PLASTICS given as a count noun.

Only in the example sentences though...!

[COUNT NOUN] : bottles can be made from a variety of plastics

[Gavin Chipper]

PLASTICS given as a count noun.

Only in the example sentences though...!

[COUNT NOUN] : bottles can be made from a variety of plastics

The count noun tag is is the example sentences?

[Gavin Chipper]

Is it just me, or have the letters selections generally been terrible recently?

[Gavin Chipper]

We didn’t get UNPENAL in R1.

Susie offered ELASTICS, albeit without reason why; says mass noun but two example sentences give the plural – I wonder now if examples are still used for mass noun rulings, but not for capitalised or two-word entries. PLASTICS given as a count noun.

This episode was filmed before the statement about example sentences no longer being used for adjudication was made.

Yeah, it was the same with PICRITES. People need to wait to see if it flushes out of the system over time.

[Fiona T]

PLASTICS given as a count noun.

Only in the example sentences though...!

[COUNT NOUN] : bottles can be made from a variety of plastics

The count noun tag is is the example sentences?

Yeah nothing like consistency.


NOUN
[MASS NOUN]
1 A synthetic material made from a wide range of organic polymers such as polyethylene, PVC, nylon, etc., that can be moulded into shape while soft, and then set into a rigid or slightly elastic form:
'mains pipes should be made of plastic or copper'
[COUNT NOUN] : 'bottles can be made from a variety of plastics'
+ More example sentences

[Philip A]

PLASTICS is fine, [COUNT NOUN] is usually adjacent to a sentence. Lots of entries give a sentence.

[Toby McDonald]

EMANATOR in R4

[David Williams]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dug-G9xVdVs