word up gossip

jonesey · Post by **jonesey** » Wed Mar 28, 2007 5:55 pm

Damn - the last 3 things I've posted have been agreeing with UP - must think for myself - still, EPIZEUXIS is most impressive word I've seen.

Was this a word in mind before the game , or an inspired spot during ?

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Wed Mar 28, 2007 10:12 pm

jonesey wrote:EPIZEUXIS...Was this a word in mind before the game , or an inspired spot during ?

I think it was probably just an opportunity-spot - maybe there was EPIZ or something. (There are a fair amount of EPI- words: 81 8 letter]SCHLIMAZEL[/b] would be good. Tho' apparently it means 'a born loser' so maybe not the best to have by your name on the scoreboard. HARGH HARGH HARGH

The new dictionary is turning me into a bit of a UP-style word-hunter. There's an absolute beauty I'm looking for atm that will make him cream his pants when I report it.

Istenem · Post by **Istenem** » Thu Mar 29, 2007 12:23 pm

vaginalbob wrote: The new dictionary is turning me into a bit of a UP-style word-hunter. There's an absolute beauty I'm looking for atm that will make him cream his pants when I report it.

i look forward to it.
without wishing to sound like the old broken record, my main beef with scrabble (and therefore the current version of WU) is that it is not a word game but a building game where the blocks happen to be letters. the structures it recognises include many and several arbitrary foreign words (irresponsibly transliterated) which pollute lexicology. this is just my opinion but it is one in which i believe vehemently.

if sowpods decided to give serious scrabble players even more scope for feeble-minded plays, they could add any of my previous game-names, or for that matter, any word in any language which is not English. to sum it up in a word :

xeraphim.

how can a portuguese word for a coin once used in a tiny part of india be of any relevance to an English dictionary? because it scores quite a lot of points? is that really a good enough reason to embrace it?
and besides, any linguist knows that portuguese never uses the digraph ph.

i stumbled across this page which had me weeping silently for the desecration of English.
http://www.absp.org.uk/words/variants%20s%20to%20z.html

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Thu Mar 29, 2007 3:03 pm

unknownpseudonym wrote: i look forward to it

Well, after an hour and a half, £7 spent (with no return! :shock

and one predictably misspelt near-miss, I finally bagged my prey:

ZOOXANTHELLAE

Istenem · Post by **Istenem** » Thu Mar 29, 2007 3:50 pm

great word, it didn't stir my loins though. must try harder next term.
i didn't know the word until a bit of rummaging, i like the related CNIDARIAN too. you see, English has plenty of obscure but valid words without looking overseas as in my previous post here.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Thu Mar 29, 2007 4:44 pm

unknownpseudonym wrote:great word, it didn't stir my loins though. must try harder next term.

hmm yeah it probably looks better than it sounds.

davejon · Post by **davejon** » Thu Mar 29, 2007 11:27 pm

managed 'ruthlessnesses' 322 in the rocket!

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Fri Mar 30, 2007 9:36 am

davejon wrote:managed 'ruthlessnesses' 322 in the rocket!

nice one dj - being the expert long-word builders, can you confirm or deny that 15+ letter words are allowed in the new game?

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Fri Mar 30, 2007 7:23 pm

WU failed to accept ZEPTOSECONDS (one sextillionth of a second) and GABERLUNZIES (medieval Scots for a licensed beggar) today. Tho' I might have misspelt the latter, in retrospect.

It did take BILHARZIAS, tho.

davejon · Post by **davejon** » Fri Mar 30, 2007 7:27 pm

vaginalbob wrote:
davejon wrote:managed 'ruthlessnesses' 322 in the rocket!
nice one dj - being the expert long-word builders, can you confirm or deny that 15+ letter words are allowed in the new game?

I'm afraid we cannot confirm that. The top score is proving rather challenging. Congratulations for VB.

davejon · Post by **davejon** » Fri Mar 30, 2007 7:30 pm

Do you know what dictionary it uses by the way?

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Fri Mar 30, 2007 7:30 pm

davejon wrote: I'm afraid we cannot confirm that. The top score is proving rather challenging. Congratulations for VB.

Cheers dj - we were just lucky to get a QUIZZICALITIES very early on.

Strangely, the last word we had to play was 'WIN.' So, here's hoping...

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Mon Apr 16, 2007 8:39 pm

PUZZLEHEADED - Victoria Station Spoons.

Also, elsewhere: HAPLOPIA, PROLAMINES, DEUTZIAS, LUXURIOUSLY, DIFFRACTION, CANALIZES

Northern Monkey · Post by **Northern Monkey** » Tue May 01, 2007 5:44 pm

Upped my PB today to 1906 (temple Walkabout) which I guess gets me promoted out of the Northern Premier League?

Ernest W. Quality · Post by **Ernest W. Quality** » Tue May 01, 2007 5:49 pm

It means you are simultaneously winning the Conference North, and bottom of the Premier League. Assuming that score was on WUGM and not the old version.