Colloquy.

Colloquy. Rollin Stearns' fine article on clerihews in this issuereintroduces the term to new readers. Rollin tried his hand at limerickstoo, submitting this effort: A puzzler ferociously feral, Whose muzzle puts wizards in peril, Roared jeremiads At druids and dryads While guzzling his beer by the barrel. He did not know that "feral" happens to be theeditor's nom in the National Puzzler's League. The reclusive Oscar Thumpbindle has let us know (indirectly) thathis unincorporated village of Timberland Cusp, OH is "just a shortbuggy ride from Columbus." We learn from his article"Tourmaline Magic", delivered by messenger, that he apparentlywas born in October, but not much more about him is known. David Dillonspotted Oscar's name in the men's magazine GQ (Dec. 2007)where he is listed as a "Friend" of the Gentlemen's Fund,an initiative to raise support for the five cornerstones essential tomen: opportunity, health, education, environment and justice. Anil recalls the late Bill Webster's anagram anagram[Gr.,=something read backward], rearrangement of the letters of a word or words to make another word or other words. A famous Latin anagram was an answer made out of a question asked by Pilate. novel A Wordy Guyand recommends it. Anil also was one of several people to note thatMichael Kline's third Puncture drawing could be interpreted asparable rather than gored by a bull. He also noted that in RossEckler's "Number Names", seven stuns to 17 not 7. Anil sent a clipping by M. Knott from The Weekend Australian, Dec.22-23, 2007 headed "Scrabulous champ living in a perfectword." It seems Melbourne University student Sam Chenoweth used theword OXYPHENBUTAZONE in a Scrabble like game scoring 1788 points whenplayed in the right spot. Scrabulous is a game invented by two brothersfrom India played on Facebook and is a knock off of the Hasbro gameScrabble. The Chicago Tribune reported on Monday, Jan. 21, 2008 thatHasbro is trying to shut down Scrabulous, saying it infringes on itscopyrights and trademarks. The Tribune suggests googling "scrabblecheat" to find a program that can be used to figure out everypossible word your tiles could spell. Put in the eight letters LAOEPGRS,say--and out pops all 355 possible word combinations, including the onlypossible eight letter word PERGOLAS. These sources are not available in Scrabble tournaments of course.Jeff Grant reminds us of the Word Ways, Feb. 1993 article"1970-point one-move Scrabble" which as the currenttheoretical single-turn record uses the word BENZOXYCAMPHORS (NI2).Using standard Scrabble dictionaries, Mr. Chenoweth's word tops. Susan Thorpe says "With all due respect to Jeff (Nov. 2007Colloquy col��lo��quy?n. pl. col��lo��quies1. A conversation, especially a formal one.2. A written dialogue.[From Latin colloquium, conversation; see ), he was not privy to the conversations Rex Gooch and I hadabout Rex's article Near-Heterogammatic Double 5-squares. Rexpositively wanted some squares with 24 different letters to be included.Doing this demonstrates that good squares with more than 23 differentletters simply do not exist, so emphasising how rare good squaresare." Jeff comments on Susan's good work on transposable transposable/trans��pos��a��ble/ (trans-poz��ah-b'l) capable of being interchanged or put in a different place or order. 4-lettersets but thinks AEST AEST Australian Eastern Standard (time)AEST Ada Embedded Systems TestbedAEST Air Elevator Support TrailerAEST Advanced EHF System TestAEST Advanced EHF Satellite Test works best. "A few of the new combinationscould be represented with more common words, e.g. TOSA TosaHistoric region of the Japanese island of Shikoku. It dates at least to the Heian period, when Ki no Tsurayuki (868?–945?), editor of Japan's first imperially commissioned poetry anthology, wrote a fictional diary drawing on his experiences as governor of Tosa. , a Japanesemastiff mastiff(măs`tĭf), breed of very large, powerful working dog developed in England more than 2,000 years ago. It stands from 27 to 33 in. (68.6–83.8 cm) high at the shoulder and weighs from 165 to 185 lb (74.9–83.9 kg). , TAUS, Greek letters, TUIS, New Zealand birds Main article: New Zealand birds The list of New Zealand birds below is ordered by the Māori names (where known) with English alternatives in brackets. (all OED OEDabbr.Oxford English DictionaryNoun 1. OED - an unabridged dictionary constructed on historical principlesO.E.D., Oxford English Dictionary ). AlsoSTEU is a nickname for Justin Steuer (not Stener), and OITS OITS Oak Island Tourism Society (UK)is an errorfor the name OTIS. Better is OITS dial. For ORTS. (Eng. Dial.Dict.)"