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SWATTER
Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2009 5:27 pm
by IanFalconer
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!
Re: SWATTER
Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2009 5:30 pm
by Alec Rivers
SPOILERZ!
Re: SWATTER
Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2009 5:34 pm
by Derek Hazell
This is a very Iany message board.
If someone called Ian founds something would it be called Ianian?
Re: SWATTER
Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2009 5:36 pm
by JimBentley
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.
Re: SWATTER
Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2009 5:39 pm
by Derek Hazell
If a student called Ian invented a fly swatter, would be be an Ianian swotter swatter?
Re: SWATTER
Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2009 5:59 pm
by Kirk Bevins
Derek Hazell wrote:If a student called Ian invented a fly swatter, would be be an Ianian swotter swatter?
wtf are you on.
Re: SWATTER
Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2009 5:59 pm
by Ben Hunter
Blipvert.
Re: SWATTER
Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2009 6:00 pm
by Ian Volante
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.
Re: SWATTER
Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2009 6:19 pm
by Ian Fitzpatrick
Oh, IANY, I read it as LANY and thought he'd gone off on one too - sad!
Re: SWATTER
Posted: Thu Oct 29, 2009 2:12 pm
by John Bosley
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.
Re: SWATTER
Posted: Thu Oct 29, 2009 2:17 pm
by James Robinson
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!
Re: SWATTER
Posted: Thu Oct 29, 2009 4:42 pm
by John Bosley
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)
Re: SWATTER
Posted: Thu Oct 29, 2009 5:14 pm
by Charlie Reams
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.
Re: SWATTER
Posted: Thu Oct 29, 2009 5:34 pm
by John Bosley
OK ......................but?
I still like Countdown, but I feel sorry for Susie. She has shitty job trying to please grumps like me.
Re: SWATTER
Posted: Thu Oct 29, 2009 6:26 pm
by Gavin Chipper
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.