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Admiral Gloval Send message Joined: 31 Mar 13 Posts: 20609 Credit: 5,308,449 RAC: 0 |
Perhaps I wasn't clear. I wasn't numbering guesses; those are positions in the word. So the 4th letter could be A, I, or O. Sure did, alright. The letters are on the front half of the jumble. |
David S Send message Joined: 4 Oct 99 Posts: 18352 Credit: 27,761,924 RAC: 12 |
Perhaps I wasn't clear. I wasn't numbering guesses; those are positions in the word. So the 4th letter could be A, I, or O. I'll think about that in the morning. Not awake enough right now. David Sitting on my butt while others boldly go, Waiting for a message from a small furry creature from Alpha Centauri. |
David S Send message Joined: 4 Oct 99 Posts: 18352 Credit: 27,761,924 RAC: 12 |
addititious David Sitting on my butt while others boldly go, Waiting for a message from a small furry creature from Alpha Centauri. |
Admiral Gloval Send message Joined: 31 Mar 13 Posts: 20609 Credit: 5,308,449 RAC: 0 |
addititious addititious adj. - pertaining to, or resulting from, addition; Astronomy, applied to force increasing gravitation between planet and satellite. Pm on the way. |
David S Send message Joined: 4 Oct 99 Posts: 18352 Credit: 27,761,924 RAC: 12 |
I'll see what I can come up with. David Sitting on my butt while others boldly go, Waiting for a message from a small furry creature from Alpha Centauri. |
anniet Send message Joined: 2 Feb 14 Posts: 7105 Credit: 1,577,368 RAC: 75 |
addititious Oh. It looks so simple now it's been written down right :) Well done, David! Good word, Admiral! oh...and did we say we like humans too? Well we do :) |
David S Send message Joined: 4 Oct 99 Posts: 18352 Credit: 27,761,924 RAC: 12 |
acilnnqtu David Sitting on my butt while others boldly go, Waiting for a message from a small furry creature from Alpha Centauri. |
Admiral Gloval Send message Joined: 31 Mar 13 Posts: 20609 Credit: 5,308,449 RAC: 0 |
This is not fun without Anniet. Clinquant |
David S Send message Joined: 4 Oct 99 Posts: 18352 Credit: 27,761,924 RAC: 12 |
This is not fun without Anniet. Correct on both counts. Or at least a few more players. Maybe we scared most of them away with overly long words. David Sitting on my butt while others boldly go, Waiting for a message from a small furry creature from Alpha Centauri. |
Ralph Send message Joined: 17 May 99 Posts: 304 Credit: 2,485,135 RAC: 3 |
[quote]This is not fun without Anniet. I have been wondering - how is her name pronounced? I have been pronouncing it as one word with three syllables. |
Admiral Gloval Send message Joined: 31 Mar 13 Posts: 20609 Credit: 5,308,449 RAC: 0 |
[quote]This is not fun without Anniet. The "T" on the end was a typo. She did not know she could change it and just left it as is. |
Ralph Send message Joined: 17 May 99 Posts: 304 Credit: 2,485,135 RAC: 3 |
[quote]This is not fun without Anniet. Oh, so silent like the P in "Leave it to Psmith", thus one word with two syllables. Thanks |
David S Send message Joined: 4 Oct 99 Posts: 18352 Credit: 27,761,924 RAC: 12 |
[quote]This is not fun without Anniet. In my head, I hear it as Annie Tee, but when I'm talking to or about her, I usually just say Annie. It may have started as a typo, but she uses it exactly the same at Boinc and Einstein as well as here. David Sitting on my butt while others boldly go, Waiting for a message from a small furry creature from Alpha Centauri. |
Ralph Send message Joined: 17 May 99 Posts: 304 Credit: 2,485,135 RAC: 3 |
[quote]This is not fun without Anniet. I sounded her name as Ann i et (Anniette) since there was no spacing. A small Annie, maybe. |
anniet Send message Joined: 2 Feb 14 Posts: 7105 Credit: 1,577,368 RAC: 75 |
Is this the word we're unjumbling at breakneck speed? -> I found it under some dust *frown pedantically* of which there is rather a lot. You might want to handle the letters a bit gingerly, or don some gloves or something if it is. It was excavated by an event involving nasal apertures and some er... propellant. Oh. SNORT!! I forgot to actually paste it in. I'll put it down there instead which is here -> acilnnqtu :) clinquant ??!!?? That's weird... the red squiggly line has disappeared *furrow brow and plant potatoes in it* that never happens. clanquint That's better! *beam happily at world* Fearsome racket employed by Scotland's highland-dwellers (using just bagpipes, an industrial rockgrinder, an amplifier and two bellowing clansmen on mules) to drive wandering English townsfolk out for a clamber, back down to sea level, or possibly in it. Initially just an occasional prank, clanquinting is now believed to pose a serious threat to Westminster being able to retrieve the nuclear weapons they left lying about the place. There we go! :) I suppose while I'm here I could go and check on that other one... I'll do that in an edit, I think. edit: Huh. It means glittering apparently. What a pretty word! :) I'm going to use that a lot more than the never that I used it before. Is it clinquant, David? oh...and did we say we like humans too? Well we do :) |
Admiral Gloval Send message Joined: 31 Mar 13 Posts: 20609 Credit: 5,308,449 RAC: 0 |
clin·quant ˈkliNGkənt/ adjective 1. glittering with gold and silver; tinseled. noun 1. imitation gold leaf. |
David S Send message Joined: 4 Oct 99 Posts: 18352 Credit: 27,761,924 RAC: 12 |
Is it clinquant, David? It was, but Admiral already got it. Then he declared the thread to be no fun without you and didn't post another word. David Sitting on my butt while others boldly go, Waiting for a message from a small furry creature from Alpha Centauri. |
anniet Send message Joined: 2 Feb 14 Posts: 7105 Credit: 1,577,368 RAC: 75 |
*reinsert eyes* ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh... oh yes. So he did :) Congratulations, Admiral! :) *waft gaze back to David* Did you notice how polite he was in not pointing out my blunder? ;) I wonder if I should be just as polite in pointing out we need a new word...? oh...and did we say we like humans too? Well we do :) |
Admiral Gloval Send message Joined: 31 Mar 13 Posts: 20609 Credit: 5,308,449 RAC: 0 |
One word coming up. These are your letters. incites radio |
anniet Send message Joined: 2 Feb 14 Posts: 7105 Credit: 1,577,368 RAC: 75 |
Here we are! All solved :) IonisedCarit - syndrome caused by eating electrically unstable carrots. Causes rapid degeneration in spelling ability towards the end of long words. CiteDarision - British army officer equivalent of the civilian address "you wot...?!" ArsinceIdiot - extinct, migratory, short-legged, flightless woodpecker. Evolutionarily blessed with a beak strong enough to fell trees, their difficulties changing direction once moving, put them at high risk of inadvertently getting flattened, during their annual migrations through northern hemisphere forests. edit: I thought it needed a comma so I gave it one. oh...and did we say we like humans too? Well we do :) |
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