Fruit Machine Chat

i'm almost sure this has been asked before, but, what do the following descriptions have in common?

comparatively more quaint
archaic/biblical consensus
a worker in copper/zinc alloy

c) Bronzesmith ?

think bronze is copper/tin.

but you are on the right lines.

Copper/zinc alloys are Brass.

Must be triple letters then, braSSSmith.

Think H is on to something: Twee(-)er?

yep, BRASSSMITH, TWEEER and AGREEETH are all in the OED.

As we are reminiscing, name a word that's first seven letters are all consonants.

i got DYSRHYTHMIC on WU a month or so ago. can't remember if Ys count though.

Interesting stuff - in no way do I want to hijack the thread (heaven forfend!) but does WU/WS accept TWEEER and AGREEETH? Handy for getting rid of excessive E's (so to speak!)

Matt Vinyl wrote:does WU/WS accept TWEEER and AGREEETH? Handy for getting rid of excessive E's (so to speak!)

i'd doubt it. <Istenem gets on his soapbox and yadders on about words for a while> afaik the only triple WS allows is BRRR, but you need to go to an irresponsible american scrabble dictionary to find that.

the old version had LBW as a word but i think that was for uncopyrightable* reasons. don't get me started Matt, i don't have an off button about wordnerdery.

*okay here is a fairly obvious one:

why are AMBIDEXTROUSLY and UNCOPYRIGHTABLE interesting words?

mr chuffed to get an easy one says :they contain the whole family of vowels including the bastard son that is 'Y'

ah, late night Lugsy
yes, but there is a bit more to it...

6 syllables - 1 vowel in each?

they do each have one of every vowel but that's not the answer on the card.