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So, by the skin of her teeth, Nicki reached half-octochampdom yesterday, despite having 4 words disallowed

Can she reach her 5th win and get herself within touching distance of a place in the finals in 6 weeks time (Or if you're one of the lucky few, you're watching them in the studios right about now. )

The rest of you lot can join me for the recap later on.

EROTICAL for round 4
I wonder what made me think of that.

Alt second numbers (100 - 10) x 6 = 540 -4.

RESIDUES was also there for 8.

Alt 3rd numbers (8x5) - 9 = 31
31 x 25 =775 + 10

Marc Meakin wrote:EROTICAL for round 4

No.

I had just thought that I was going to make the observation here that Nikki was a really solid player, winning without using lots of exotic words, and then she declared WAHINE. I'm enjoying her games.

Only an equaller in R7, but I like the word REREDOS. Not that I ever have any use for it. I wish I could remember useful things instead.

I really hope she makes the finals, she's been my favourite contestant of the series, even though she knocked out Phil.

TAILORED in round 4, ASPIRIN in round 6 and TAJINES in round 13.

Another low scoring game.

I wonder if James know how long it is since we had a century?

I love Nikki's facial expressions!!

Ian Fitzpatrick wrote:I wonder if James know how long it is since we had a century?

If you don't count Peter Zyss' 2nd game when he got his 100 by result of a 2nd conundrum, then the last person to get a century on the show was Clarke Carlisle, just over 2 months ago, when he beat Alexander Johnston 101-78

And now look what's happened to him.

Bit slow there James

Ryan Taylor wrote:

Marc Meakin wrote:EROTICAL for round 4

No.

Yet you can have EROTICALLY though.
Shurely some mistake.

Marc Meakin wrote:

Ryan Taylor wrote:

Marc Meakin wrote:EROTICAL for round 4

No.

Yet you can have EROTICALLY though.
Shurely some mistake.

Cf EXOTIC, EXOTICALLY, but not EXOTICAL. My uneducated guess is that -AL and -IC suffixes do the same adjectivising job (so you don't need both at the same time), and that the whole -ALLY suffix is doing the adverbing.

Fair point, but what about POLITICAL and TOPICAL.
Plus CSW recognizes it.

Marc Meakin wrote:Fair point, but what about POLITICAL and TOPICAL.
Plus CSW recognizes it.

Hmm, I'd guess that in both cases the extra endings are there to differentiate between different meanings (and between the nouns and adjectives, depending on context). Unless EROTIC and EROTICAL have distinct meanings, EROTICAL sounds like redundant back formation to me.

Brian Moore wrote:EROTICAL sounds like redundant back formation to me.

You kinky devil!

Jon Corby wrote:

Brian Moore wrote:EROTICAL sounds like redundant back formation to me.

You kinky devil!

Typical. I'll have to take the photos off Facebook now.

Marc Meakin wrote:Fair point, but what about POLITICAL and TOPICAL.
Plus CSW recognizes it.

The basical fact is that it's not there!