Most popular countdown words

[Eoin Monaghan]

dacoit,lodestar,leotards,apogees,fantod and agoutis.

Also raiment and minaret as they were the first word declarations on countdown

[David Roe]

'Gentoo' used to come up a lot. It was the first 'leotard', if you see what I mean.

[Peter Mabey]

Remember the TANGELO, which was brought into the studio.

[Kai Laddiman]

Remember the TANGELO, which was brought into the studio.

I managed to miss TANGELOS in my show

[Kevin Thurlow]

"Also raiment and minaret as they were the first word declarations on countdown"

I didn't know that! "Minarets" was my first declaration, but I had no sense of deja vu. I did watch the first show but must have forgotten by then......

[Michael Wallace]

you used to get lots of PANTILES, not so much any more now, though

[David Williams]

When I started watching, TZIGANES used to come up frequently - a very useful way to use a Z. But it seems to have disappeared completely.

David

[Dinos Sfyris]

There are quite a few sevens made from the 8 common letters AIOUGRST

AGOUTIS GIAOURS GUITARS RAGOUTS and SAUTOIR.

GOPURAS is not far from being included in that selection either and many weird and wonderful 8s can be found by adding on a letter eg GRACIOUS ORGASTIC AUDITORS OUTRAGES GOURAMIS AROUSING ORGANIST RAINOUTS ROASTING ROUSTING SASTRUGI SAUTOIRS and my personal favourite RUGOSITY.

Some are rather unintuitive words for non-lexonerds and well worth remembering.

[Ben Hunter]

ADROIT

[Eoin Monaghan]

[quote="Dinos Sfyris"]There are quite a few sevens made from the 8 common letters AIOUGRST

AGOUTIS

if you had read dinos i already had down agoutis

[Innis Carson]

To be fair, it was a different context.

[Eoin Monaghan]

To be fair, it was a different context.

i'm only being picky

[Peter Mabey]

Today's programme reminds me that EROTICA is seen more often than might have been expected befire the watershed.