Spoilers for Thursday 1st June

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Spoilers for Thursday 1st June

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Susie seemed to imply IRONICAL wouldn't have been allowed had it been declared, yet it's perfectly fine on apterous. It seemed she said "Yeah, not on Countdown but it's in the dictionary" when asked if it was okay.
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Also, do we reckon Dan got all the words he was implying he got?
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Elliott Mellor wrote: Thu Jun 01, 2017 5:06 pm Susie seemed to imply IRONICAL wouldn't have been allowed had it been declared, yet it's perfectly fine on apterous. It seemed she said "Yeah, not on Countdown but it's in the dictionary" when asked if it was okay.
CILANTRO as an equaller in the same round.
It wasn't clear what her point was.

Also I got ATOMLESS in one of the rounds as a beater.
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Elliott Mellor wrote: Thu Jun 01, 2017 5:10 pm Also, do we reckon Dan got all the words he was implying he got?
Probably. He says often enough that it wasn't him.
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Gavin Chipper wrote: Thu Jun 01, 2017 5:50 pm
Elliott Mellor wrote: Thu Jun 01, 2017 5:06 pm Susie seemed to imply IRONICAL wouldn't have been allowed had it been declared, yet it's perfectly fine on apterous. It seemed she said "Yeah, not on Countdown but it's in the dictionary" when asked if it was okay.
CILANTRO as an equaller in the same round.
It wasn't clear what her point was.

Also I got ATOMLESS in one of the rounds as a beater.
She said something similarly cryptic quite recently I think. But today, Nick said something about it being controversial, so Susie's "Not on Countdown" might have referred to that, rather than that you can't have it on Countdown.
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I think she just meant that she wouldn't have included IRONICAL in the dictionary if it were to have been up to her, because she personally believed the -AL ending was redundant. I never interpreted the comment as meaning that she would have disallowed it.
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I've watched it back and the conversation basically goes like this:

Dan: If you got - IRONIC's in there, can you throw an AL on the end? Can you make IRONICAL?

Susie: Ah, that's always the big debate.

Dan: Is this a regular Countdown debate?

Susie: Not in Countdown, but it's in the dictionary, yes. IRONIC - A lot of people don't like us putting AL on things and extending them for the sake of it, but it's in the dictionary so that's the main thing.

The "Not in Countdown" part that has caused us all this confusion seems to refer purely to the debate - i.e. people debate whether putting AL on the end of words (including IRONIC) is acceptable, but not on Countdown, because on Countdown you just look at the dictionary. And it's in.
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I got OUTARMED as a beater in R12.
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Gavin Chipper wrote: Fri Jun 02, 2017 2:53 pm I've watched it back and the conversation basically goes like this:

Dan: If you got - IRONIC's in there, can you throw an AL on the end? Can you make IRONICAL?

Susie: Ah, that's always the big debate.

Dan: Is this a regular Countdown debate?

Susie: Not in Countdown, but it's in the dictionary, yes. IRONIC - A lot of people don't like us putting AL on things and extending them for the sake of it, but it's in the dictionary so that's the main thing.

The "Not in Countdown" part that has caused us all this confusion seems to refer purely to the debate - i.e. people debate whether putting AL on the end of words (including IRONIC) is acceptable, but not on Countdown, because on Countdown you just look at the dictionary. And it's in.
That makes sense. Cheers for clearing it up :)
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Toby McDonald wrote: Fri Jun 02, 2017 3:15 pm I got OUTARMED as a beater in R12.
Nice spot. I was convinced that my 7 wouldn't be the best there.
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