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You play a long slow deadweight red to a corner pocket. As it approaches the pocket, a kamikaze woodlouse crawls out from under the cushion and makes its way across the table, conflicting with the path of the red precisely at the point the red gets there. The red, needless to say, veers off course, and the future of the woodlouse is uncertain. - The Statman
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Can do a question after?
You play a long slow deadweight red to a corner pocket. As it approaches the pocket, a kamikaze woodlouse crawls out from under the cushion and makes its way across the table, conflicting with the path of the red precisely at the point the red gets there. The red, needless to say, veers off course, and the future of the woodlouse is uncertain. - The Statman Comment
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I am afraid I will have to disallow 'deeded' as, in both Chambers online and Rhymezone (http://www.rhymezone.com/r/rhyme.cgi...rg1=syl&org2=l) there is no mentinon of the word 'deed' as a verb. Therefore I will give myself the point for the 6-letter sequence from the first O to the second N in 'commonness'.
Hereis the table after Round 2:
Pos. . . . . . . . Points . . . . . . Person
1 . . . . . . . . . . . 1 . . . . . . . The Statman
2 . . . . . . . . . . . 1 . . . . . . . elvaago
(We will assume the same principles as in the snooker quiz, whereby you go straight to the top of your new points total to avoid tied positions.)
ROUND THREE
Over to Mitsuko.Comment
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ROUND THREE: What is the longest Englsh word you can find, consisting of only "short letters". For example "common" is a short letter word. I will allow "i" to be considered a short letter.
The longest answer by 3.30pm today will be awarded the points.You play a long slow deadweight red to a corner pocket. As it approaches the pocket, a kamikaze woodlouse crawls out from under the cushion and makes its way across the table, conflicting with the path of the red precisely at the point the red gets there. The red, needless to say, veers off course, and the future of the woodlouse is uncertain. - The Statman Comment
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I presume you mean where none of the letters have tails (gpqy) or tall lines (bdf tec.)
I'm on 8 at the moment.Comment
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Yes that is what I meant, I'm not very good at explaining
You play a long slow deadweight red to a corner pocket. As it approaches the pocket, a kamikaze woodlouse crawls out from under the cushion and makes its way across the table, conflicting with the path of the red precisely at the point the red gets there. The red, needless to say, veers off course, and the future of the woodlouse is uncertain. - The Statman Comment
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I'll go for 14, ıf the letter 'i' ıs allowed to be counted as a short letter. Maybe we should remove the dot so ıt look as ıf ıt really ıs short!Comment
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Maybe I should reduce the timelimit
You play a long slow deadweight red to a corner pocket. As it approaches the pocket, a kamikaze woodlouse crawls out from under the cushion and makes its way across the table, conflicting with the path of the red precisely at the point the red gets there. The red, needless to say, veers off course, and the future of the woodlouse is uncertain. - The Statman Comment
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I thınk I have a fıfteen-letter one! You could potentıally argue seventeen ıf a dodgy plural ıs permıtted!Comment
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I have a 17 letter word
I believe it's the longest possible, so if you get it the round would end now.You play a long slow deadweight red to a corner pocket. As it approaches the pocket, a kamikaze woodlouse crawls out from under the cushion and makes its way across the table, conflicting with the path of the red precisely at the point the red gets there. The red, needless to say, veers off course, and the future of the woodlouse is uncertain. - The Statman Comment
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My longest so far is 11 letters: concurrence"I'll be back next year." --Jimmy WhiteComment
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www.webster.com lists to deed as a verb!Originally Posted by MitsukoDeeded"I'll be back next year." --Jimmy WhiteComment
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My 17 ıs only valıd ıf you consıder plurals of words endıng ın -ness (etc.) as allowable.
Some are obvıous, lıke ıllnesses and wıldernesses, but some, for example remoteness, cleverness, sharpness, usefulness, are more dubıous sınce you would almost never need them.
However, they are nouns and you could argue that there are some cırcumstances where they would be useful.
Take the word hardness – you could talk of 'dıfferent hardnesses of rock' or whatever. So ıf I am useful ın one way, and you are useful ın another, you could correctly say that these are dıfferent usefulnesses. If we were both useful ın the same way, then that would be only one usefulness.
A communıty ın the mountaıns has remoteness, so does a communıty on a small ısland. But they are dıfferent kınds of remoteness – and theır respectıve remotenesses are quıte dıstınct.
And so I gıve to you the plural of unnecessarıness, whıch ıs unnecessarınesses!Comment
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I will allow that
The word I had was unceremoniousness which wouldn't work as plural.
If i was not accepted the longest word I had was overnumerousness.
Here is the table after Round 3:
Pos. . . . . . . . Points . . . . . . Person
1 . . . . . . . . . . . 2 . . . . . . . The Statman
2 . . . . . . . . . . . 1 . . . . . . . elvaago
ROUND FOURYou play a long slow deadweight red to a corner pocket. As it approaches the pocket, a kamikaze woodlouse crawls out from under the cushion and makes its way across the table, conflicting with the path of the red precisely at the point the red gets there. The red, needless to say, veers off course, and the future of the woodlouse is uncertain. - The Statman Comment
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By vırtue of my logıc, you could have had the plural, unceremonıousnesses!
But thank you!
ROUND FOUR
A vegetable, a country, a musical instrument, a disease, without doubt, a mathematical formula, conduct, an advancement of exceptional scope, idiots, chaos.
All clues for words which share a quality. For example, for the first few you might have:
Potato, Lesotho, piccolo, lumbago... and they woould all be words ending in 'O'.
What are the answers and what do they have in common?Comment
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