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

Posted: Sun May 23, 2021 9:55 pm
by Toby McDonald
AIRDROP in R11
PELOTONS in R12

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

Posted: Mon May 24, 2021 4:31 am
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.

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

Posted: Mon May 24, 2021 9:56 pm
by Stewart Gordon
What dictionary is this that states that CATTLE is a mass noun? Lexico has it, correctly, as a plural noun.

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

Posted: Mon May 24, 2021 10:14 pm
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.

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

Posted: Tue May 25, 2021 4:16 am
by Howie Myers
r13: MUSCAT

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

Posted: Wed Apr 20, 2022 10:09 am
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".