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MJMcCready
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Re: Puzzles

Post by MJMcCready » Wed Mar 10, 2021 1:08 pm

Which noun phrase has most letters in it?

Kevin Thurlow
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Re: Puzzles

Post by Kevin Thurlow » Wed Mar 10, 2021 1:16 pm

And which poison starts with six consonants and ends with nine?

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Post by Neil Graham » Wed Mar 10, 2021 1:28 pm

Kevin Thurlow wrote:
Wed Mar 10, 2021 1:16 pm
And which poison starts with six consonants and ends with nine?

strychnine

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Re: Puzzles

Post by Neil Graham » Wed Mar 10, 2021 1:34 pm

I'm stuck on a crossword clue - "A postman's round".

When inevitably you're asked "How many letters?"

The response is "************ hundreds!"

The word before hundreds can be added at your discretion depending on who you're speaking to!

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Re: Puzzles

Post by Neil Graham » Wed Mar 10, 2021 1:36 pm

MJMcCready wrote:
Wed Mar 10, 2021 1:08 pm
Which noun phrase has most letters in it?
Royal Mail Pillar Box?

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Re: Puzzles

Post by MJMcCready » Wed Mar 10, 2021 1:41 pm

ha ha yes close, I was thinking 'Post Office'.

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Re: Puzzles

Post by Matthew Turner » Wed Mar 10, 2021 1:48 pm

Kevin Thurlow wrote:
Wed Mar 10, 2021 12:52 pm
pneumonovolcanoultramicroscopicsilicoconiosis (from memory)

like most scientific words, you split it up to say it...

pneumono-volcano-ultra-micro-scopic-silico-coniosis

And the earlier long one was floccinaucinihilipilification (the art of considering something as worthless) - hence the "nihili" in the middle.

I did have an example of a very long chemical name (most of which have numbers and hyphens), but this was split by brackets only, and that was much longer than that "p" word.

The "international nonproprietary name" abamectin is a bit easier than its IUPAC names - see http://www.alanwood.net/pesticides/index_cn_frame.html

When I started getting good at IUPAC names, my trainer gave me that to name to shut me up for a day or so.
Congratulations, I think you have the volcano bit occurring too early, but that is it.

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Re: Puzzles

Post by Matthew Turner » Wed Mar 10, 2021 1:49 pm

What word is pronounced differently if the first letter is a capital.

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Re: Puzzles

Post by MJMcCready » Wed Mar 10, 2021 1:52 pm

Ouch, that is a hard one, possibly French by origin.

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Post by Alex McFarlane » Wed Mar 10, 2021 3:29 pm

Differently

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Post by Matthew Turner » Wed Mar 10, 2021 3:36 pm

Alex,
I hadn't thought of that one, but that wasn't what I was looking for.

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Post by David Williams » Wed Mar 10, 2021 3:48 pm

Nice, or for those in the north of England, Bath.

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Post by Matthew Turner » Wed Mar 10, 2021 3:54 pm

I think I am going to have to give you that one, but that wasn't what I was thinking of either, no place names.

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Re: Puzzles

Post by Kevin Williamson » Wed Mar 10, 2021 5:00 pm

polish/Polish

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Re: Puzzles

Post by Matthew Turner » Wed Mar 10, 2021 5:02 pm

Congratulations

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