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.
So, by the skin of her teeth, Nicki reached half-octochampdom yesterday, despite having 4 words disallowed
Can she reach her 5th win and get herself within touching distance of a place in the finals in 6 weeks time (Or if you're one of the lucky few, you're watching them in the studios right about now. )
The rest of you lot can join me for the recap later on.
I had just thought that I was going to make the observation here that Nikki was a really solid player, winning without using lots of exotic words, and then she declared WAHINE. I'm enjoying her games.
Only an equaller in R7, but I like the word REREDOS. Not that I ever have any use for it. I wish I could remember useful things instead.
Ian Fitzpatrick wrote:I wonder if James know how long it is since we had a century?
If you don't count Peter Zyss' 2nd game when he got his 100 by result of a 2nd conundrum, then the last person to get a century on the show was Clarke Carlisle, just over 2 months ago, when he beat Alexander Johnston 101-78
Yet you can have EROTICALLY though.
Shurely some mistake.
Cf EXOTIC, EXOTICALLY, but not EXOTICAL. My uneducated guess is that -AL and -IC suffixes do the same adjectivising job (so you don't need both at the same time), and that the whole -ALLY suffix is doing the adverbing.
Marc Meakin wrote:Fair point, but what about POLITICAL and TOPICAL.
Plus CSW recognizes it.
Hmm, I'd guess that in both cases the extra endings are there to differentiate between different meanings (and between the nouns and adjectives, depending on context). Unless EROTIC and EROTICAL have distinct meanings, EROTICAL sounds like redundant back formation to me.
(Or if you're one of the lucky few, you're watching them in the studios right about now. 
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