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Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2006 11:23 am
by Istenem
as you can see i'm a very slow typist.
Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2006 3:04 pm
by Istenem
right a words Q. can you think of a word which begins with two consecutive letters of the alphabet? (vwls aren't allowed in the first two letters)
examples GHEE, KLUTZ, STOOL (all other ST words are DQed), XYLOPHONE
Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2006 3:15 pm
by Cardinal Sin
hmmmm... nice question.
BC ....nope
CD ....nope
FG .... for god's sake.... nope
GH ... gherkin! ghost! ghastly! ghoulies!
KL ... damn. Klutz was all I knew... Klingon? Klos (ex-Rangers keeper)
LM ... nope
MN ... mnemonic
PQ, QR, RS .. nope, nope, and... nope
VW ... nope
WX ... nope
XY ... Xyloglyphics
YZ ... nope. Although ZYXOMMA is an Indian dragonfly. Do I get any marks for that?
Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2006 3:24 pm
by Istenem
good spot MNEMONIC you got pretty much all of them, GH~ works with surprisingly many, and there are one or two other KL~s klaxon, kleptomania and klystron (?)
also the last word allowable on WU is ZYZZYVAS.
all yours YE.
Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2006 3:37 pm
by Cardinal Sin
What in the blue blazes does ZYZZYVAS mean?
Which country has the highest rate of HIV in the world? (about 40% of the population)
Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2006 3:46 pm
by Istenem
ZYZZYVAS are some kind of creepy crawly.
i feel another trek round africa coming on. i'll start with
Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2006 3:55 pm
by Cardinal Sin
Tell me that's not Yemen / Oman again
Only asked this question, cos I've just read the king of his country has just taken his 14th wife and is in the middle of building a huge palace for her. He spent 1/4 of his country's national budget on a jet airplane for himself. Meanwhile, the average age of a male citizen is 32... you'd already be dead UP.
Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2006 4:04 pm
by Istenem
how rude. i'm only 27.
aha i think i've read about this could it be swaziland?
Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2006 4:08 pm
by Cardinal Sin
Yes. Swaziland it is...
Back to you, O Mysterious One.
Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2006 4:32 pm
by Istenem
ta.
sorry if this has been asked before:
what is the longest word spelt in alphabetical order?
e.g. begin would be okay began would not
Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2006 4:49 pm
by Istenem
a clue:
it is seven letters long and has a double letter.
Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2006 4:50 pm
by Cardinal Sin
are you allowed double-letters?
abcess is the best I can think of, and it's rubbish.
Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2006 4:55 pm
by Istenem
abcess is good for six but suzi dent has spotted a couple of sevens. there are quite a few sixes but only two 7s afaik.
i have disallowed aegilops because it is a scrabble word.
Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2006 4:57 pm
by Cardinal Sin
Go Cardinal Go Cardinal
Accepts
Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2006 5:02 pm
by Istenem
erm, my dictionary puts S before T.
clue: it starts with B