Colloquy.

Colloquy. Rex Gooch writes "'A Foul Ghoul Soul Loves Good BloodFood' is a very interesting article, but it does unintentionallyshow another aspect of English: different folk pronounce wordsdifferently, which is why I disagree with so many of the examples. Totake two, I expect American authors to pronounce solder differently, butI cannot imagine in what way hog and dog do not rhyme perfectly. Thereare also a number of examples where a word carries more than onepronunciation according to meaning such as does (verb or plural) orprayer (agent noun or noun)." Ed Wolpow suggests two X-based Guggenheim sentences: Xochimilcoxenobiologist Xerxes Xeroxes xerograph, x-es xeric xer��ic?adj.Of, characterized by, or adapted to an extremely dry habitat.xeri��cal��ly adv. xenium; XavierXenakis, Xenia Xenia(zē`nēə), city (1990 pop. 24,664), seat of Greene co., SW Ohio; inc. 1814. It is a trade and industrial center in a farm area. Rope and twine, plastics, potato chips, valves, and hydraulic lifts are among its manufactures. xylophonist xylophonistFlateur; farter; one with noisy flatus. See Flatulence. , x-rays xenophobic xen��o��phobe?n.A person unduly fearful or contemptuous of that which is foreign, especially of strangers or foreign peoples.xen xanthocephalusxanthocephalus. The editor overlooked (see page at) a second Dutchexample of Guggenheim Sentences in Hugo Brandt Corstius's bookOpperlans. Anil suggests quoll n. 1. (Zool.) A marsupial of Australia (Dasyurus macrurus), about the size of a cat. , an Australian marsupial marsupial(märs`pēəl), member of the order Marsupialia, or pouched mammals. (in the OED), asa substitute for quarter-horse. In the Jul 2005 issue of Games Magazine, Raymond Love packed thenine planets (plus the sun) in a 12x7 rectangle, smaller than the 10 xl0 one exhibited in the May 2004 Word Ways: [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Rex Gooch writes "I think your reader (May 2005 Colloquy col��lo��quy?n. pl. col��lo��quies1. A conversation, especially a formal one.2. A written dialogue.[From Latin colloquium, conversation; see ) istoo prescriptive. Rules such as those proposed have to work with in acontext. For example, use of unusual words or phrases may reasonably bebanned for 8-squares, but I would say you need no excuse to use any word(even coined) in a 12-square. Some of the rules will be operateddifferently by different people, because familiarity depends upon thebackground of the individual; thus, base group or hexadecimal See hex. (mathematics) hexadecimal - (Or "hex") Base 16. A number representation using the digits 0-9, with their usual meaning, plus the letters A-F (or a-f) to represent hexadecimal digits with values of (decimal) 10 to 15. shift arebread-and-butter to me and many others, but I have rarely read and neverused class reunion." Ed Wolpow comments "In 'Smynonyms or DefinitivePalindromes', Anil does not mention the variant of the phoneticsmynonym, not to mention the polylingual pol��y��lin��gual?adj.1. Of, including, or expressed in several languages; multilingual: a polylingual software program.2. smynonym. Still, there's afine example: TAX: SKAT (skat is the Danish word for tax). Hugo Brandt Corstius Hugo Brandt Corstius (born 29 august, 1935 in Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant) is a Dutch author known for his achievements in both literature and science.In 1970, he was awarded a PhD on the subject of computational linguistics. writes about Gooch's 11-square in the MayWord Ways "Proud you used the Dutch SIERSNORREN. It is not in anydictionary, but any Dutch speaker will tell you the meaning'ostentatiously decorated moustaches'. I am absolutely certainthe word has been spoken, written, printed many times. SIER SIER Special Instruction Engineering ReleaseSIER Software Integration Evaluation RecordSIER Simulation of International Economic Relations (game)is anadjective-like word from the verb (ver)sieren with the meaning'decorative'. In the popular Van Dale dictionary I findSIERSPREI (decorated bedspread), SIERSCHRIFT (calligraphy), etc." Errata: In "The Prime Ministers, More or Less" thetransdeletion for Wellington should have been towelling, not toweling.In "Animal Crackers" the brown-billed SCYHE BILL woodcreepershould have been SCYTHE BILL. In "A Homovocalic Survey"AROOSTOOK (p 134) is not homovocalic. Rex Gooch writes "Jeff Grant endorses in Colloquy a certainspelling as correct [for a long Maori place-name in "SuperHeavyweights (Part 2)"] without saying why. I actually have [in mydatabase] five words starting Taumatawhak ... One of 23 letters refersto a place some distance away. The other four refer to the same place,but have 28, 57, 83 and 92 letters. The first two of these four haveAUAU as Jeff wants, and the second of these I have from two sources. Thespellings come from three sources in all. I have copied theseaccurately, so Jeff is saying two of my sources are wrong. That couldbe: notation of place names in another language is rather fraught. Forexample, the spelling Istanbul is obviously wrong (should be a soft I)but it is accepted (along with the more accurate Stamboul, perhaps).From a practical viewpoint, I believe we have to accept whatauthoritative sources say, though it is interesting to have errorspointed out (with reasons)." Hugo Brandt Corstius writes "In the May 2005 Colloquy theDutch verloren hoop is translated as 'lost troops'. The wordhoop has two meanings (and etymologies), 'head' and'hope'. While in the 17th century verloren hoop was used inthe military sense, nowadays it would be understood as 'losthope'. Certainly the Cape of Good Hope Noun 1. Cape of Good Hope - a point of land in southwestern South Africa (south of Cape Town)2. Cape of Good Hope - a province of western South AfricaCape of Good Hopen → is a heap, but it was namedKapp Goede Hoop as it encouraged the Dutch sailors. In "Word Lists With All Starting Letters" the editorshould have cited Ed Wolpow's August 1984 Kickshaw on this topic.He mentioned Roget's International Thesaurus (R.L. Chapman, FourthEdition, 1977) where a list of 394 languages contains words beginningwith all 26 letters. "Remarkable that you found a lipolist [a listlacking one starting letter] for the letter I. As the mathematician, youcould probably quantify those probabilities--of finding or not findingsuch lists."