Discuss anything that happened in recent games. This is the place to post any words you got that beat Dictionary Corner, or numbers games that evaded Rachel.
And it's go, GO, GO on Countdown as GO-Master Tony Atkins put in a very impressive performance after seeming to be out of it after part 1. Will there be any more thrills and spills today
Join me as I make 5 Of A Kind, and do my first current Friday recap to complete the set.
PERIDOTS not in the Apterous dictionary for some reason... I strongly suggest Charlie / Mike read pagexiii of ODE3 and fix silly things like this and CLOVERS.
I was very careful to check every answer except in the DUMPED round. I had a whole lot of 6s, eg POUNDS, MOUNDS and presumably HUMPED. Somehow I had writen HUMPED down as DUMPED and didn't check it. Should have picked one of the others....
Tony Atkins wrote:I was very careful to check every answer except in the DUMPED round. I had a whole lot of 6s, eg POUNDS, MOUNDS and presumably HUMPED. Somehow I had writen HUMPED down as DUMPED and didn't check it. Should have picked one of the others....
Don't you mean H*MPED, Tony!!! This week is full of rude words!
Tony Atkins wrote:I was very careful to check every answer except in the DUMPED round. I had a whole lot of 6s, eg POUNDS, MOUNDS and presumably HUMPED. Somehow I had writen HUMPED down as DUMPED and didn't check it. Should have picked one of the others....
Don't you mean H*MPED, Tony!!! This week is full of rude words!
Well there must be a lot of rude bridges out there! The combination of PISTONS and PASSION was a little bit rude...
Thought there was the alternative 7 ^LAGGIER in R1, but a bit surprised it's not yet in ODE, (nor ^LAGGY), as it's quite a common word in computerage. (42,000 and 2.75 million Google hits respectively.)
Brian Moore wrote:Thought there was the alternative 7 ^LAGGIER in R1, but a bit surprised it's not yet in ODE, (nor ^LAGGY), as it's quite a common word in computerage. (42,000 and 2.75 million Google hits respectively.)
The Oxford English Corpus is the Google of OUP's world.
Adam Gillard wrote:The Oxford English Corpus is the Google of OUP's world.
Hmm, I'm very happy for the OUP, but 2.75m Google hits, and with OED saying "No Search Results", suggests that the corpus isn't quite up to speed on this one. Occasionally I feel the OED and ODE pick up more ephemeral jargonny words, and miss less obvious neologisms in common usage. (This conjecture is probably as accurate at the amateur weather forecasters who say that their forecasts made by sniffing pine cones are more accurate than those made by the Met Office with their Jolly Big computers. But I know that Charlie always likes conjecture with no citation or reasoning.)
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Did Keith Bennett get an answer to his question yesterday?
No word of a lie, my wife Julie watched today's episode whilst doing the ironing and asked if Tony is a carpet salesman. I was bit nonplussed until she said "He's got a nice line in rugs."
Philip Jarvis wrote:Did Keith Bennett get an answer to his question yesterday?
No word of a lie, my wife Julie watched today's episode whilst doing the ironing and asked if Tony is a carpet salesman. I was bit nonplussed until she said "He's got a nice line in rugs."
I remain au naturelle.
It's the hairspray! Took my jumper off later and it all stood on end. Pehaps you are just being polite and suggesting in needs cutting?
Not enough time this week to do so with the finals on Tuesday/Wednesday (and Monday I am helping Roger scout out his summer holiday in Sheffield). Sorry I will not be able to post too much this week as a consequence - but there are some good shows coming up, so enjoy!
Brian Moore wrote:2.75m Google hits, and with OED saying "No Search Results"
It's not saying No Results. It's saying Not Enough Results To Make It Into A Dictionary With Only 2000 Pages.
Well, I'll do a deal with OED then if they're so short of space. They can take out 'cyberslacking' (new entry December 2010, 32,600 Google hits) and put in 'laggy' (and 'laggier') instead.
The trouble with these obviously 'constructed' new words is that they tend to fail the FUDGE test (Frequency, Unobtrusiveness, Diversity, Generation, Endurance) for words likely to make it into common usage: they're in all the papers for a while, but disappear soon after. In think 'laggy' will be still be around once 'cyberslacking' has gone.
Brian Moore wrote:2.75m Google hits, and with OED saying "No Search Results"
It's not saying No Results. It's saying Not Enough Results To Make It Into A Dictionary With Only 2000 Pages.
Well, I'll do a deal with OED then if they're so short of space. They can take out 'cyberslacking' (new entry December 2010, 32,600 Google hits) and put in 'laggy' (and 'laggier') instead.
The trouble with these obviously 'constructed' new words is that they tend to fail the FUDGE test (Frequency, Unobtrusiveness, Diversity, Generation, Endurance) for words likely to make it into common usage: they're in all the papers for a while, but disappear soon after. In think 'laggy' will be still be around once 'cyberslacking' has gone.
I've never understood how they decide a word is in common enough usage to get in. Words that are commonly used in a highly specialised area are going to get less usage than uncommon transitory slang. They surely don't just go on numbers.