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Spoilers for Monday 16 January 2017 (Series 76, Prelim 5)
Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2017 2:25 pm
by Johnny Canuck
Did Heerpal say LOUDEST in Round 2? A Non-Countdown Acquaintance™ passed by my desk and I had to talk over his word.
Re: Spoilers for Monday 16 January 2017 (Series 76, Prelim 5)
Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2017 5:24 pm
by Philip Wilson
Johnny Canuck wrote: ↑Mon Jan 16, 2017 2:25 pm
Did Heerpal say LOUDEST in Round 2? A Non-Countdown Acquaintance™ passed by my desk and I had to talk over his word.
He did. Really enjoyable match today too, shame someone had to lose.
Re: Spoilers for Monday 16 January 2017 (Series 76, Prelim 5)
Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2017 7:47 pm
by Elliott Mellor
PAROLEIN r8 I think
Suzy's a really good spotter of words, certainly one of the most talented non-apterites there has been.
Re: Spoilers for Monday 16 January 2017 (Series 76, Prelim 5)
Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2017 8:25 pm
by Peter Mabey
BILIOUS to beat BROILS
Re: Spoilers for Monday 16 January 2017 (Series 76, Prelim 5)
Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2017 5:03 pm
by Gavin Chipper
In round 12, FOVEAS is there to match FOSSAE. Not ordinarily worth a mention, but it's not on Apterous. Apterous has FOVEAE as the plural of FOVEA, but the dictionary makes no mention of the plural, so therefore it's FOVEAS. I will file a ticket.
Re: Spoilers for Monday 16 January 2017 (Series 76, Prelim 5)
Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2017 5:15 pm
by Thomas Carey
Hmm. It's been foveae long before the new update so maybe the definition changed?
Re: Spoilers for Monday 16 January 2017 (Series 76, Prelim 5)
Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2017 5:23 pm
by Gavin Chipper
Thomas Carey wrote: ↑Tue Jan 17, 2017 5:15 pm
Hmm. It's been foveae long before the new update so maybe the definition changed?
They're always messing about with the dictionary. I mean, it probably "should" be FOVEAE, but this sort of opinion counts for nothing when applying rules that are supposed to be consistent.
Re: Spoilers for Monday 16 January 2017 (Series 76, Prelim 5)
Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2017 5:40 pm
by Johnny Canuck
If both FOVEAE and FOVEAS have been the plural at various times, I'd plump to have both included on Apterous. Removal of a word is a controversial decision -- I can honestly think of very few reasons why a word should abruptly and arbitrarily cease to be a word. That said, I'll add FOVEAS to the wiki recap because I think it's good.
Re: Spoilers for Monday 16 January 2017 (Series 76, Prelim 5)
Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2017 7:35 pm
by Ray Wilding
There are no plurals given in the ODO at the moment, except in the premium version. The plural is FOVEAE and FOVEAE only.
Re: Spoilers for Monday 16 January 2017 (Series 76, Prelim 5)
Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2017 8:26 pm
by Gavin Chipper
Rubbish dictionary.
Edit - The stupid thing is that there's no indication (as far as I can see) that there even is a premium edition if you're just using the dictionary normally, nor that that's the reason we're not getting plurals. So it's hardly a good way of getting people to pay up. It's absolutely idiotic.
Countdown should change its dictionary. Despite all the advertising they get from Countdown, they've never done anything in return - like make it clear what is a word and what isn't. I'm sure other dictionaries would do a better job.