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Teatime Teasers
Posted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 10:35 pm
by Wil Ransome
Perhaps this has been talked about before, in which case my apologies, but why is it that, with any number of perfectly good 8-letter words that could surely be made into suitable teatime teasers, we are repeatedly fobbed off with pluralised 7-letter ones?
Re: Teatime Teasers
Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2008 12:58 am
by Charlie Reams
If someone solves the teaser, they feel happy. Plural ones are easier to solve. So, modus ponens.
Re: Teatime Teasers
Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2008 3:53 pm
by Jason Larsen
They could be compound words also.
Re: Teatime Teasers
Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2008 11:00 pm
by Wil Ransome
What does "modus ponens" mean? It isn't in Chambers.
Re: Teatime Teasers
Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2008 11:03 pm
by Jason Larsen
That's 11 letters, not 8.
Re: Teatime Teasers
Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2008 11:06 pm
by Charlie Reams
Re: Teatime Teasers
Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2008 11:15 pm
by Jason Larsen
So, Latin just might help you out on Countdown.
Very interesting.
Re: Teatime Teasers
Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2008 4:55 pm
by Damian E
Wil Ransome wrote:Perhaps this has been talked about before, in which case my apologies, but why is it that, with any number of perfectly good 8-letter words that could surely be made into suitable teatime teasers, we are repeatedly fobbed off with pluralised 7-letter ones?
Just checked quickly, and of the last 110 teasers we've used in production, there were 22 that were pluralised 7's. It's not something i consider when putting them together to be honest.