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Can she complete the full set 
Think the legend that is Innis Carson went for this on the show.JackHurst wrote:URETERAL as a beater. Thought pontines was another too, but its not in.
Yup, pontine adj, tontine noun, from memory.Ryan Taylor wrote:Think the legend that is Innis Carson went for this on the show.JackHurst wrote:URETERAL as a beater. Thought pontines was another too, but its not in.
Pontines, that is.
Well no. Just learn what I did above and it's nothing to do with meanings.Innis Carson wrote:Indeed, an example of how learning the meanings of words can help you play better (and look less of an idiot).
Necessary and sufficient, I think. Also, meanings are useful when determining whether a sensible plural exists for a [mass noun].Kirk Bevins wrote:Well no. Just learn what I did above and it's nothing to do with meanings.Innis Carson wrote:Indeed, an example of how learning the meanings of words can help you play better (and look less of an idiot).
I think learning meanings is good, If I have trouble remembering a word sometimes looking up the definition helps. A good example is MEDULLA, which I was struggling to remember, getting it mixed up with possibilities such as mulleda and mudella. When I looked up the definition and saw the phrase MEDULLA OBLONGATA^, which was a phrase I remembered from a film, the correct orders of the letters was immediately embedded in my brain.Kirk Bevins wrote:Well no. Just learn what I did above and it's nothing to do with meanings.Innis Carson wrote:Indeed, an example of how learning the meanings of words can help you play better (and look less of an idiot).
So you didn't know the meaning, you just looked up the word to help you remember the pattern of letters. I have done that before but the meaning isn't necessary - when I learnt to spell "weird" I didn't look it up in a dictionary, I wrote it down 10 times. Nowadays I just write it down a maximum of once and commit the pattern of letters to memory.JackHurst wrote:When I looked up the definition and saw the phrase MEDULLA OBLONGATA^, which was a phrase I remembered from a film, the correct orders of the letters was immediately embedded in my brain.
How is that painstaking? It's not difficult to remember ORDINATE is a noun, regardless of its definition. Trying to remember its definition may be more difficult and in some cases it's really hard to understand what the dictionary is trying to say!Innis Carson wrote:than by painstakingly memorising "verb/adjective/noun/etc." for each word without any context at all.
Apparently there are other arenas beyond Countdown where these collections of letters, or "words" as they are sometimes called, can also be used.Kirk Bevins wrote:How is that painstaking? It's not difficult to remember ORDINATE is a noun, regardless of its definition. Trying to remember its definition may be more difficult and in some cases it's really hard to understand what the dictionary is trying to say!Innis Carson wrote:than by painstakingly memorising "verb/adjective/noun/etc." for each word without any context at all.
Well, obviously, but that wasn't what we were discussing.Jon Corby wrote: Apparently there are other arenas beyond Countdown where these collections of letters, or "words" as they are sometimes called, can also be used.
Improving your vocabulary = win
Crosswords, Scrabble...Jon Corby wrote:Apparently there are other arenas beyond Countdown where these collections of letters, or "words" as they are sometimes called, can also be used.
Hex quiz machinesCharlie Reams wrote:Crosswords, Scrabble...Jon Corby wrote:Apparently there are other arenas beyond Countdown where these collections of letters, or "words" as they are sometimes called, can also be used.