Spoilers for Monday, 21st April
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Spoilers for Monday, 21st April
Good luck to Ben on his 2nd game.
EDIT: You had Paul Zenon in DC, I'm so jealous.
EDIT: You had Paul Zenon in DC, I'm so jealous.
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Re: Spoilers for Monday, 21st April
I thought TARMAC was a trademark, and therefore would be capitalised in the dictionary. Isn't it?
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Re: Spoilers for Monday, 21st April
1st numbers alternative - ((100 + 6) x 7) - 2
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Re: Spoilers for Monday, 21st April
Lots of them have become generic, like HOOVER and VASELINE.smjg wrote:I thought TARMAC was a trademark, and therefore would be capitalised in the dictionary. Isn't it?
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Can you have COMEDOS in ODE? I seem to remember COMEDONES being in as a plural of COMEDO.
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REGALIST in round 13
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RETRIALS too as an equaller.Michael Wallace wrote:REGALIST in round 13
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Re: Spoilers for Monday, 21st April
Are RETIRALS / GLARIEST also in?
Also, went for (75-((8*4)+5))*9=342; didn't see the easier method!
Also, went for (75-((8*4)+5))*9=342; didn't see the easier method!
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Re: Spoilers for Monday, 21st April
Just looking at them in my 2001 OPD:Charlie Reams wrote:Lots of them have become generic, like HOOVER and VASELINE.smjg wrote:I thought TARMAC was a trademark, and therefore would be capitalised in the dictionary. Isn't it?
- Hoover (cap) as a noun is a trademark, but apparently the verb (-cap) was never trademarked
- vaseline is a trademark, but nonetheless is given in lowercase
- tarmac is a little more complicated, but not capitalised at all. Strange - I'm sure I've seen it capitalised as a trademark somewhere.
Re: Spoilers for Monday, 21st April
If it's lower case, it should be allowed. Starting off as a trademark is just another way for a word to enter the language. In addition to the examples that Charlie gave, HEROIN, ESCALATOR, TANNOY, FRISBEE, TRAMPOLINE and many others all started life as trademarks.smjg wrote: Still, what's the policy on accepting words that are trademarks but nonetheless given in lower case?
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Re: Spoilers for Monday, 21st April
For the record, I saw Ambient in the ?3rd? round, but didn't want to risk it as wasn't 100% as to whether it was ent or ant.
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Ambient is fine.Benji Hanks wrote:For the record, I saw Ambient in the ?3rd? round, but didn't want to risk it as wasn't 100% as to whether it was ent or ant.
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Re: Spoilers for Monday, 21st April
My post didn't appear before for some reason. Anyone else had this trouble?
Anyway here's a more intuitive R14. I found this way easier anyhow.
75 - 5 = 70
9 - 4 = 5 multiply = 350 - 8
DC
Anyway here's a more intuitive R14. I found this way easier anyhow.
75 - 5 = 70
9 - 4 = 5 multiply = 350 - 8
DC
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If someone posts while you're writing your message, clicking Submit will give you a page warning of the possible clash rather than submitting your post. However it doesn't look much different to the expected page and on a few occasions I've nearly shut the window without realising. That might be the cause.DaveC wrote:My post didn't appear before for some reason. Anyone else had this trouble?
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I think the capital/non-capital is a bit of a dubious way of distinguishing. Probably the best way there is, but still not entirely satisfactory in my eyes. My main example is that I don't see why currencies of countries are any less "proper" than certain other proper nouns but they just happen not to be capitalised.Paul Howe wrote:If it's lower case, it should be allowed. Starting off as a trademark is just another way for a word to enter the language. In addition to the examples that Charlie gave, HEROIN, ESCALATOR, TANNOY, FRISBEE, TRAMPOLINE and many others all started life as trademarks.smjg wrote: Still, what's the policy on accepting words that are trademarks but nonetheless given in lower case?
Edit - well if the definition of "proper noun" is a particular being or object as opposed to one of many, as opposed to simply a capitalised noun, then is there a name for capitalised nouns? "Englishman" for example would not be proper but is capitalised.
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A fair point, but as you say, there doesn't seem to be an alternative. For an example oddity, DBX would be valid according to the current rules. I assume the rule was taken from Scrabble where it has lead to some other odd consequences (like PH and EMF) over the years.Gevin-Gavin wrote:I think the capital/non-capital is a bit of a dubious way of distinguishing. Probably the best way there is, but still not entirely satisfactory in my eyes. My main example is that I don't see why currencies of countries are any less "proper" than certain other proper nouns but they just happen not to be capitalised.Paul Howe wrote:If it's lower case, it should be allowed. Starting off as a trademark is just another way for a word to enter the language. In addition to the examples that Charlie gave, HEROIN, ESCALATOR, TANNOY, FRISBEE, TRAMPOLINE and many others all started life as trademarks.smjg wrote: Still, what's the policy on accepting words that are trademarks but nonetheless given in lower case?