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.

Another clue. Perhaps a large one.
A number of letters in the jumble are in the correct position.

You already said that.

Sure did, alright.

The letters are on the front half of the jumble.

---

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.

Another clue. Perhaps a large one.
A number of letters in the jumble are in the correct position.

You already said that.

Sure did, alright.

The letters are on the front half of the jumble.

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.

addititious

---

David
Sitting on my butt while others boldly go,
Waiting for a message from a small furry creature from Alpha Centauri.

addititious

addititious
adj. - pertaining to, or resulting from, addition; Astronomy, applied to force increasing gravitation between planet and satellite.

Pm on the way.

---

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.

addititious

addititious
adj. - pertaining to, or resulting from, addition; Astronomy, applied to force increasing gravitation between planet and satellite.

Pm on the way.

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 :)

acilnnqtu

---

David
Sitting on my butt while others boldly go,
Waiting for a message from a small furry creature from Alpha Centauri.

This is not fun without Anniet.

Clinquant

---

This is not fun without Anniet.

Clinquant

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.

[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.

---

[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.

The "T" on the end was a typo. She did not know she could change it and just left it as is.

---

[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.

The "T" on the end was a typo. She did not know she could change it and just left it as is.

Oh, so silent like the P in "Leave it to Psmith", thus one word with two syllables.

Thanks

---

[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.

The "T" on the end was a typo. She did not know she could change it and just left it as is.

Oh, so silent like the P in "Leave it to Psmith", thus one word with two syllables.

Thanks

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.

[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.

The "T" on the end was a typo. She did not know she could change it and just left it as is.

Oh, so silent like the P in "Leave it to Psmith", thus one word with two syllables.

Thanks

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.

I sounded her name as Ann i et (Anniette) since there was no spacing. A small Annie, maybe.

---

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 :)

clin·quant
ˈkliNGkənt/
adjective
1.
glittering with gold and silver; tinseled.
noun
1.
imitation gold leaf.

---

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.

*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 :)

One word coming up. These are your letters.

incites radio

---

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 :)