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Charlie Khoo v Annie Durham (aka Anniehall)
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HOARIEST as an equaller rd 2
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Alt 1st numbers: (9+3)X(75+4)=948
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When I put all the words in a word solver after, I found LIMONENES for a 9 (Which Susie doesn't see) for round 7.
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Alt 2nd numbers: (3x25+2x7)x(4+5)=801
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LIMONENE does not take an S in the dictionary Countdown usesAnnieHall wrote:When I put all the words in a word solver after, I found LIMONENES for a 9 (Which Susie doesn't see) for round 7.
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BODHRANS is actually pronounced as boughrawns (sorry that's about as close as I can get).
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alt final numbers( (50+5)*9 )-1=494
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who won, I just missed it
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I thought LIMONENES was in the Countdown dictionary? Unfortunately, I haven't got the one from my goodie bag in my house at the moment to check.
I let my nerves get the better of me, it all went downhill after I misread the "T" for a "C".
I never realised how nerve-wracking it is on there.
I let my nerves get the better of me, it all went downhill after I misread the "T" for a "C".
I never realised how nerve-wracking it is on there.
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I have also visited the chicken and chips greasy spoon that Richard Whiteley liked (as mentioned by Amanda Lamb today). It's in Sao Bras and I think it's called something like Luis Do Frango (Luis of the chicken). Because Richard had mentioned it on A Place In The Sun, when we were there, I insisted we visit it. We couldn't find it listed anywhere and ended up walking pretty much every street in Sao Bras till we found it.
To be honest, it wasn't that great but it was really cheap. I think we paid about £8 for two of us to have 2 courses plus drinks.
To be honest, it wasn't that great but it was really cheap. I think we paid about £8 for two of us to have 2 courses plus drinks.
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Just googled LIMONENES- would it have been allowed or not, do you think?
"D-limonenes are not a new discovery; they were first used as cleaning agents nearly 30 years ago. Chlorinated solvents, however, have been the most widely-used cleaning chemicals for the past 25 years because they were inexpensive, effective and their use was unrestricted. "
"D-limonenes are not a new discovery; they were first used as cleaning agents nearly 30 years ago. Chlorinated solvents, however, have been the most widely-used cleaning chemicals for the past 25 years because they were inexpensive, effective and their use was unrestricted. "
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It's a shame as it's chiral, so it does have two different, mirror-imaged, forms (laevo- and dextro-, obviously), but it doesn't say anything about that in the definition so I doubt very much it would have been allowed.Marc Meakin wrote:LIMONENE does not take an S in the dictionary Countdown usesAnnieHall wrote:When I put all the words in a word solver after, I found LIMONENES for a 9 (Which Susie doesn't see) for round 7.
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Watching on Channel 4 + 1. PETTILY for round 9
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Alternative to 3rd numbers:
50 x 9 = 450, 7 + 1 = 8, 8 x 5 = 40, 450 + 40 + 4 = 494
50 x 9 = 450, 7 + 1 = 8, 8 x 5 = 40, 450 + 40 + 4 = 494
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Ann(i)e, who was that fit little blonde sat next to your son?
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Nobody we know, sorry!
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I always think it's slightly poor form if someone gives a wrong answer that's nearly right and the presenter says something like "Ooh I'm afraid we can't allow that" (like what happened with the coundrum). Bob Wholenose used to always do that on Blockbusters.
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The chap.Ben Hunter wrote:who won, I just missed it
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I was a bit surprised that when Anne declared a 'risky' word and Charlie a 'safe' one of the same length, Jeff went to Charlie for his word first when normally it's the 'risky' one that's asked for first (presumably to give Susie more time to check it).
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But can you imagine the uproar there would have been if he had allowed it. What if it was crucial?Gavin Chipper wrote:I always think it's slightly poor form if someone gives a wrong answer that's nearly right and the presenter says something like "Ooh I'm afraid we can't allow that" (like what happened with the coundrum). Bob Wholenose used to always do that on Blockbusters.
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Yeah I wondered about that too. Some people just can't say certain words. I had a mate who used to say "progidy" instead of "prodigy", and no matter how many times I made him say it slowly or syllable by syllable, he just couldn't get the hang of it. We don't speak anymore.Liam Tiernan wrote:But can you imagine the uproar there would have been if he had allowed it. What if it was crucial?Gavin Chipper wrote:I always think it's slightly poor form if someone gives a wrong answer that's nearly right and the presenter says something like "Ooh I'm afraid we can't allow that" (like what happened with the coundrum). Bob Wholenose used to always do that on Blockbusters.
So I did wonder if he actually did have the the answer but just can't say it? Maybe if it was important, filming could stop and he could write it down (while not looking at the letters) or something to prove that he did actually solve it?
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The fact that entymology is a word but not THE word would sway it for me.
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Ah, okay. I thought he more sort of stumbled and ended up saying something that sounded more like EM- than EN-. I didn't think he was clearly saying ENTYMOLOGY. But I did only watch it once.Ian Fitzpatrick wrote:The fact that entymology is a word but not THE word would sway it for me.
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The fact that ENTYMOLOGY contains 10 letters would have swayed it for me.Jon Corby wrote:Ah, okay. I thought he more sort of stumbled and ended up saying something that sounded more like EM- than EN-. I didn't think he was clearly saying ENTYMOLOGY. But I did only watch it once.Ian Fitzpatrick wrote:The fact that entymology is a word but not THE word would sway it for me.
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It isn't, but what he said was ENTOMOLOGY which is.Ian Fitzpatrick wrote:The fact that entymology is a word
Anyway, I thought Gevin's point was that by hesitating and saying, "Ooh, no, I don't think we can allow that," (instead of just "No") Jeff was dropping a major hint that the correct answer was something very similar. In this instance it didn't matter because Anne didn't pick up on it, but in the general case it might have (literally) given the game away.
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Likewise some people always say "anenomes" instead of "anemones", as Amanda Lamb did yesterday.Jon Corby wrote:Some people just can't say certain words. I had a mate who used to say "progidy" instead of "prodigy", and no matter how many times I made him say it slowly or syllable by syllable, he just couldn't get the hang of it.
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I occasionally guess 10 letter answers to conundrums on apterous, there's nothing wrong with that!Marc Meakin wrote:The fact that ENTYMOLOGY contains 10 letters would have swayed it for me.Jon Corby wrote:Ah, okay. I thought he more sort of stumbled and ended up saying something that sounded more like EM- than EN-. I didn't think he was clearly saying ENTYMOLOGY. But I did only watch it once.Ian Fitzpatrick wrote:The fact that entymology is a word but not THE word would sway it for me.
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My sister-in-law always said "stiff ticket" for certificate. Haven't seen her for a while since she moved to "have a swift whiff"Phil Reynolds wrote:Likewise some people always say "anenomes" instead of "anemones", as Amanda Lamb did yesterday.Jon Corby wrote:Some people just can't say certain words. I had a mate who used to say "progidy" instead of "prodigy", and no matter how many times I made him say it slowly or syllable by syllable, he just couldn't get the hang of it.
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There was an 'article' about commonly mispronounced words in a newspaper a while back. Aha, I've found it. Some pretty staggering stuff.Phil Reynolds wrote:Likewise some people always say "anenomes" instead of "anemones", as Amanda Lamb did yesterday.Jon Corby wrote:Some people just can't say certain words. I had a mate who used to say "progidy" instead of "prodigy", and no matter how many times I made him say it slowly or syllable by syllable, he just couldn't get the hang of it.
The top 10 for people who cba to follow the link:
1. Phenomenon (fi-nom-uh-non)
2. Anaesthetist (uh-nes-thi-tist)
3. Remuneration (ri-myoo - nuh-reyshun)
4. Statistics (stuh-tis-tiks)
5. Ethnicity (eth-nis-i-tee)
6. Philosophical (fil-uh-sof-i-kuhl)
7. Provocatively (pruh-vok-uh-tiv)
8. Anonymous (uh-non-uh-muhs)
9. Thesaurus (thi-sawr-uhs)
10. Aluminium (al-yuh-min-ee-uhm)
As surprising as (almost) all of them are, I think it's 'statistics' that really makes it for me. What sort of mistakes do people make when saying that?
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I cannot believe how many people mispronounce "Ask".
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(Pruh-vok-uh-tiv-lee)?Michael Wallace wrote: 7. Provocatively (pruh-vok-uh-tiv)
As surprising as (almost) all of them are, I think it's 'statistics' that really makes it for me. What sort of mistakes do people make when saying that?
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Haha, well spotted (I hope it is obvious, but I just copy pastaed that list from the article, so it is indeed them cocking things up, awesomesauce).Lesley Hines wrote:(Pruh-vok-uh-tiv-lee)?
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"Nucular" and "perscription" are surely more common than these.Michael Wallace wrote: 1. Phenomenon (fi-nom-uh-non)
2. Anaesthetist (uh-nes-thi-tist)
3. Remuneration (ri-myoo - nuh-reyshun)
4. Statistics (stuh-tis-tiks)
5. Ethnicity (eth-nis-i-tee)
6. Philosophical (fil-uh-sof-i-kuhl)
7. Provocatively (pruh-vok-uh-tiv)
8. Anonymous (uh-non-uh-muhs)
9. Thesaurus (thi-sawr-uhs)
10. Aluminium (al-yuh-min-ee-uhm)
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And restaurateur with the added n
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The article is about words that people stumble over because they can be difficult to get your tongue round, and I'd certainly include statistics in this, since as a child I couldn't say it at all; even now, I can say it in isolation but sometimes trip over it in a sentence (I could never do Jon Briggs' job on Weakest Link, as I can't say "According to the statistics..." to save my life).
Words like prodigy and anemone, though, are surely rather different. These are words that aren't particularly tongue-twisting, but which huge numbers of people still get wrong for some reason. Charlie's nuclear ("noo-kew-lar") belongs to this category, as does my aforementioned mischievous ("miss-cheev-ous" or "miss-cheevy-ous") and possibly the most widespread of all - "perk you later" for percolator.
Words like prodigy and anemone, though, are surely rather different. These are words that aren't particularly tongue-twisting, but which huge numbers of people still get wrong for some reason. Charlie's nuclear ("noo-kew-lar") belongs to this category, as does my aforementioned mischievous ("miss-cheev-ous" or "miss-cheevy-ous") and possibly the most widespread of all - "perk you later" for percolator.
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Yes - you thought correctly.Phil Reynolds wrote:Anyway, I thought Gevin's point was that by hesitating and saying, "Ooh, no, I don't think we can allow that," (instead of just "No") Jeff was dropping a major hint that the correct answer was something very similar. In this instance it didn't matter because Anne didn't pick up on it, but in the general case it might have (literally) given the game away.
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I've recently been on a couple of holidays where I'm accompanying blind people. The thing I always want to explain to people asking why I do it, is that it's very companionable. It's exactly the word I want to use, but it's always just a car crash in the middle of my sentence!
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And "perogative". Always a good one for tripping up people who think they can spell.Charlie Reams wrote:"Nucular" and "perscription" are surely more common than these.Michael Wallace wrote: 1. Phenomenon (fi-nom-uh-non)
2. Anaesthetist (uh-nes-thi-tist)
3. Remuneration (ri-myoo - nuh-reyshun)
4. Statistics (stuh-tis-tiks)
5. Ethnicity (eth-nis-i-tee)
6. Philosophical (fil-uh-sof-i-kuhl)
7. Provocatively (pruh-vok-uh-tiv)
8. Anonymous (uh-non-uh-muhs)
9. Thesaurus (thi-sawr-uhs)
10. Aluminium (al-yuh-min-ee-uhm)
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I've been an assistant statistician for two and a half years, and I still can't say it.
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Forget those long words; a lot of people I know can't say "new". (They say "noo".)
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Gavin Chipper wrote:Forget those long words; a lot of people I know can't say "new". (They say "noo".)
"noo" means now up here.
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Are you sure they're not saying gnu?Gavin Chipper wrote:Forget those long words; a lot of people I know can't say "new". (They say "noo".)
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specially/especially, and temporarily/temporallyMichael Wallace wrote:There was an 'article' about commonly mispronounced words in a newspaper a while back.