Spoilers For Friday October 1st 2010
Moderator: James Robinson
- James Robinson
- Post-apocalypse
- Posts: 10580
- Joined: Mon Mar 30, 2009 5:38 pm
- Location: Mirfield, West Yorkshire
Spoilers For Friday October 1st 2010
Well, we've now entered October and amazingly we could still have our 3rd consecutive octochamp on Wednesday, as Heather Driver has survived a four-way onslaught from the other challengers Can she complete the full set
Mike will be around with all your answers later.
Mike will be around with all your answers later.
- Matt Morrison
- Post-apocalypse
- Posts: 7822
- Joined: Wed Oct 22, 2008 2:27 pm
- Location: London
- Contact:
Re: Spoilers For Friday October 1st 2010
Can anyone putter in her place?
-
- Postmaster General
- Posts: 3661
- Joined: Sun Oct 25, 2009 6:18 pm
Re: Spoilers For Friday October 1st 2010
I'd like to Ryder.
- Matt Morrison
- Post-apocalypse
- Posts: 7822
- Joined: Wed Oct 22, 2008 2:27 pm
- Location: London
- Contact:
Re: Spoilers For Friday October 1st 2010
Ryan's penis has got a growth disorder.
-
- Enthusiast
- Posts: 316
- Joined: Thu Jan 24, 2008 11:48 am
Re: Spoilers For Friday October 1st 2010
The ODE says "sauna" is Latin? It was Finnish when I went there. Various online dictionaries claim it's Finnish as well.
-
- Kiloposter
- Posts: 1123
- Joined: Sat Mar 01, 2008 3:15 pm
- Location: Harlow
Re: Spoilers For Friday October 1st 2010
The word was FAUNAE
-
- Newbie
- Posts: 13
- Joined: Fri Sep 05, 2008 7:19 pm
Re: Spoilers For Friday October 1st 2010
Round 9 - PIONEER for 7
-
- Devotee
- Posts: 825
- Joined: Mon Feb 02, 2009 12:29 am
Re: Spoilers For Friday October 1st 2010
Unlucky Heather, a very good sport.
Re: Spoilers For Friday October 1st 2010
URETERAL as a beater. Thought pontines was another too, but its not in.
-
- Postmaster General
- Posts: 3661
- Joined: Sun Oct 25, 2009 6:18 pm
Re: Spoilers For Friday October 1st 2010
Think the legend that is Innis Carson went for this on the show.JackHurst wrote:URETERAL as a beater. Thought pontines was another too, but its not in.
Pontines, that is.
- Kirk Bevins
- God
- Posts: 4923
- Joined: Mon Jan 21, 2008 5:18 pm
- Location: York, UK
Re: Spoilers For Friday October 1st 2010
Yup, pontine adj, tontine noun, from memory.Ryan Taylor wrote:Think the legend that is Innis Carson went for this on the show.JackHurst wrote:URETERAL as a beater. Thought pontines was another too, but its not in.
Pontines, that is.
- Innis Carson
- Devotee
- Posts: 898
- Joined: Sat Nov 15, 2008 3:24 pm
Re: Spoilers For Friday October 1st 2010
Indeed, an example of how learning the meanings of words can help you play better (and look less of an idiot).
- Kirk Bevins
- God
- Posts: 4923
- Joined: Mon Jan 21, 2008 5:18 pm
- Location: York, UK
Re: Spoilers For Friday October 1st 2010
Well no. Just learn what I did above and it's nothing to do with meanings.Innis Carson wrote:Indeed, an example of how learning the meanings of words can help you play better (and look less of an idiot).
Re: Spoilers For Friday October 1st 2010
Necessary and sufficient, I think. Also, meanings are useful when determining whether a sensible plural exists for a [mass noun].Kirk Bevins wrote:Well no. Just learn what I did above and it's nothing to do with meanings.Innis Carson wrote:Indeed, an example of how learning the meanings of words can help you play better (and look less of an idiot).
Re: Spoilers For Friday October 1st 2010
I think learning meanings is good, If I have trouble remembering a word sometimes looking up the definition helps. A good example is MEDULLA, which I was struggling to remember, getting it mixed up with possibilities such as mulleda and mudella. When I looked up the definition and saw the phrase MEDULLA OBLONGATA^, which was a phrase I remembered from a film, the correct orders of the letters was immediately embedded in my brain.Kirk Bevins wrote:Well no. Just learn what I did above and it's nothing to do with meanings.Innis Carson wrote:Indeed, an example of how learning the meanings of words can help you play better (and look less of an idiot).
- Kirk Bevins
- God
- Posts: 4923
- Joined: Mon Jan 21, 2008 5:18 pm
- Location: York, UK
Re: Spoilers For Friday October 1st 2010
So you didn't know the meaning, you just looked up the word to help you remember the pattern of letters. I have done that before but the meaning isn't necessary - when I learnt to spell "weird" I didn't look it up in a dictionary, I wrote it down 10 times. Nowadays I just write it down a maximum of once and commit the pattern of letters to memory.JackHurst wrote:When I looked up the definition and saw the phrase MEDULLA OBLONGATA^, which was a phrase I remembered from a film, the correct orders of the letters was immediately embedded in my brain.
- Innis Carson
- Devotee
- Posts: 898
- Joined: Sat Nov 15, 2008 3:24 pm
Re: Spoilers For Friday October 1st 2010
Clearly if that works for you then there's no arguing with that, but I think for many people it would be easier to get inflections right by associating a meaning with a word and working it out logically from there (as you would do naturally) than by painstakingly memorising "verb/adjective/noun/etc." for each word without any context at all.
- Kirk Bevins
- God
- Posts: 4923
- Joined: Mon Jan 21, 2008 5:18 pm
- Location: York, UK
Re: Spoilers For Friday October 1st 2010
How is that painstaking? It's not difficult to remember ORDINATE is a noun, regardless of its definition. Trying to remember its definition may be more difficult and in some cases it's really hard to understand what the dictionary is trying to say!Innis Carson wrote:than by painstakingly memorising "verb/adjective/noun/etc." for each word without any context at all.
Re: Spoilers For Friday October 1st 2010
Apparently there are other arenas beyond Countdown where these collections of letters, or "words" as they are sometimes called, can also be used.Kirk Bevins wrote:How is that painstaking? It's not difficult to remember ORDINATE is a noun, regardless of its definition. Trying to remember its definition may be more difficult and in some cases it's really hard to understand what the dictionary is trying to say!Innis Carson wrote:than by painstakingly memorising "verb/adjective/noun/etc." for each word without any context at all.
Improving your vocabulary = win
- Kirk Bevins
- God
- Posts: 4923
- Joined: Mon Jan 21, 2008 5:18 pm
- Location: York, UK
Re: Spoilers For Friday October 1st 2010
Well, obviously, but that wasn't what we were discussing.Jon Corby wrote: Apparently there are other arenas beyond Countdown where these collections of letters, or "words" as they are sometimes called, can also be used.
Improving your vocabulary = win
- Charlie Reams
- Site Admin
- Posts: 9494
- Joined: Fri Jan 11, 2008 2:33 pm
- Location: Cambridge
- Contact:
Re: Spoilers For Friday October 1st 2010
Crosswords, Scrabble...Jon Corby wrote:Apparently there are other arenas beyond Countdown where these collections of letters, or "words" as they are sometimes called, can also be used.
Re: Spoilers For Friday October 1st 2010
Hex quiz machinesCharlie Reams wrote:Crosswords, Scrabble...Jon Corby wrote:Apparently there are other arenas beyond Countdown where these collections of letters, or "words" as they are sometimes called, can also be used.