SWATTER

IanFalconer · Post by **IanFalconer** » Wed Oct 28, 2009 5:27 pm

Re today's Countdown. How come Susie didn't allow the word SWATTER? It's in our 8th edition Concise Oxford. How is it not in her larger volume? You can buy swatters in shops, though I find a folded newspaper is just as good!

Alec Rivers · Post by **Alec Rivers** » Wed Oct 28, 2009 5:30 pm

SPOILERZ!

Derek Hazell · Post by **Derek Hazell** » Wed Oct 28, 2009 5:34 pm

This is a very Iany message board.

If someone called Ian founds something would it be called Ianian?

JimBentley · Post by **JimBentley** » Wed Oct 28, 2009 5:36 pm

IanFalconer wrote:Re today's Countdown. How come Susie didn't allow the word SWATTER? It's in our 8th edition Concise Oxford. How is it not in her larger volume? You can buy swatters in shops, though I find a folded newspaper is just as good!

It's in under FLY SWATTER (two separate words) and under the rules, words that appear only in combination with other words aren't allowed. I reckon it should be in by itself though, it's a bit of a strange omission.

Derek Hazell · Post by **Derek Hazell** » Wed Oct 28, 2009 5:39 pm

If a student called Ian invented a fly swatter, would be be an Ianian swotter swatter?

Kirk Bevins · Post by **Kirk Bevins** » Wed Oct 28, 2009 5:59 pm

Derek Hazell wrote:If a student called Ian invented a fly swatter, would be be an Ianian swotter swatter?

wtf are you on.

Ben Hunter · Post by **Ben Hunter** » Wed Oct 28, 2009 5:59 pm

Blipvert.

Ian Volante · Post by **Ian Volante** » Wed Oct 28, 2009 6:00 pm

Derek Hazell wrote:This is a very Iany message board.

If someone called Ian founds something would it be called Ianian?

I'll tell you later.

Ian Fitzpatrick · Post by **Ian Fitzpatrick** » Wed Oct 28, 2009 6:19 pm

Oh, IANY, I read it as LANY and thought he'd gone off on one too - sad!

John Bosley · Post by **John Bosley** » Thu Oct 29, 2009 2:12 pm

SWATTER appears twice (in different places) in the Chambers Dictionary and probably in others as well.

1 - under SWAT where it an 'instrument consisting of a flexible shaft etc etc'

2 - under SWATTER where it is a dialect verb 'to squatter; to splash or spill about'

'Swatter' is quite obviously a word.

James Robinson · Post by **James Robinson** » Thu Oct 29, 2009 2:17 pm

John Bosley wrote:SWATTER appears twice (in different places) in the Chambers Dictionary and probably in others as well.
'Swatter' is quite obviously a word.

Tell that to the OED!

John Bosley · Post by **John Bosley** » Thu Oct 29, 2009 4:42 pm

James Robinson wrote:
John Bosley wrote:SWATTER appears twice (in different places) in the Chambers Dictionary and probably in others as well.
'Swatter' is quite obviously a word.
Tell that to the OED!

No need. Swatter is in the Compact Edition of the OED with another meaning of 'fritter away ' (time and money)

Charlie Reams · Post by **Charlie Reams** » Thu Oct 29, 2009 5:14 pm

John Bosley wrote:'Swatter' is quite obviously a word.

Correct. Along with literally millions of other words which are not included in a single-volume dictionary of barely 2000 pages. The ODE2r doesn't pretend to be a list of all possible words.

John Bosley · Post by **John Bosley** » Thu Oct 29, 2009 5:34 pm

OK ......................but?

I still like Countdown, but I feel sorry for Susie. She has shitty job trying to please grumps like me.

Gavin Chipper · Post by **Gavin Chipper** » Thu Oct 29, 2009 6:26 pm

John Bosley wrote:OK ......................but?

I still like Countdown, but I feel sorry for Susie. She has shitty job trying to please grumps like me.

But then again, she's won a lot of admiration and presumably gets paid a reasonable amount of money for what is essentially the easiest job in the world.

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