Spoilers for Friday 21st May 2021 (Series 83, Preliminary 100)

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.

Moderator: James Robinson

Post Reply
Toby McDonald
Kiloposter
Posts: 1093
Joined: Thu Jan 19, 2017 4:23 pm

Spoilers for Friday 21st May 2021 (Series 83, Preliminary 100)

Post by Toby McDonald »

AIRDROP in R11
PELOTONS in R12
Howie Myers
Enthusiast
Posts: 412
Joined: Thu Nov 07, 2019 6:05 am

Re: Spoilers for Friday 21st May 2021 (Series 83, Preliminary 100)

Post by Howie Myers »

I wa surprised to discover that UNSLEPT ( r 12) doesn't appear in Lexico. I would have thought that a bed could be unslept in.
Stewart Gordon
Enthusiast
Posts: 316
Joined: Thu Jan 24, 2008 11:48 am

Re: Spoilers for Friday 21st May 2021 (Series 83, Preliminary 100)

Post by Stewart Gordon »

What dictionary is this that states that CATTLE is a mass noun? Lexico has it, correctly, as a plural noun.
Gavin Chipper
Post-apocalypse
Posts: 13258
Joined: Mon Jan 21, 2008 10:37 pm

Re: Spoilers for Friday 21st May 2021 (Series 83, Preliminary 100)

Post by Gavin Chipper »

Howie Myers wrote: Mon May 24, 2021 4:31 am I wa surprised to discover that UNSLEPT ( r 12) doesn't appear in Lexico. I would have thought that a bed could be unslept in.
It's more (un) slept-in than unslept in. Because you don't unsleep.
Howie Myers
Enthusiast
Posts: 412
Joined: Thu Nov 07, 2019 6:05 am

Re: Spoilers for Friday 21st May 2021 (Series 83, Preliminary 100)

Post by Howie Myers »

r13: MUSCAT
Stewart Gordon
Enthusiast
Posts: 316
Joined: Thu Jan 24, 2008 11:48 am

Re: Spoilers for Friday 21st May 2021 (Series 83, Preliminary 100)

Post by Stewart Gordon »

Gavin Chipper wrote: Mon May 24, 2021 10:14 pm
Howie Myers wrote: Mon May 24, 2021 4:31 am I wa surprised to discover that UNSLEPT ( r 12) doesn't appear in Lexico. I would have thought that a bed could be unslept in.
It's more (un) slept-in than unslept in. Because you don't unsleep.
You also don't unwrite or unread. But something can be unwritten or unreadable.

But I would guess the issue here is that "unslept" doesn't exist as an independent word, but only as part of the hyphenated word "unslept-in".
Post Reply