Comments on: Guardian 24,114/Brendan – I may be missing something?

By: petebiddlecombe

petebiddlecombe — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 12:58:53 +0000

Honours: I thought the trmup A and 10 counted as honours too. Like some other bridge lingo, it's an idea inherited from whist (though I think only A K Q J are honours in whist). Other trick-taking games have various terms for high trumps, liek 'bowers' and 'matadors'.

By: neildubya

neildubya — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 18:45:31 +0000

I thought this was a "mini-theme-about-no-theme" - COMMON OR GARDEN along the top, NOTHING SPECIAL across the middle, and PLAIN AND SIMPLE along the bottom.

By: Barbara

Barbara — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 15:50:17 +0000

Re: Honour: In a deck (pack as the Brits say) of cards, the Jack, Queen and King are termed honour cards.
This term is common in the game of bridge. I'm not sure about other card games.

By: michod

michod — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 11:58:16 +0000

I thought of SITCOM and HONOUR but wasn't convinced enough by either to fill them in. Honour can be a girl's name, and I suppose there must be circumstances in which it can be used to address a queen, though I thought 'honour' was for judges and 'highness' or 'majesty' for queens.

By: colinblackburn

colinblackburn — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 11:32:15 +0000

The use of college to mean university is fairly standard in the UK too. It's often used in this way colloquially, for instance I would say that I went to college in Manchester. It gets a bit complicated when discussing a collegiate university such as Oxford, Cambridge and to a lesser extent Durham where college has a more specific meaning.

Colin

By: ilancaron

ilancaron — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 10:55:09 +0000

1D is a bit of mystery to me as well.

5D: in the US universtiies are invariably referred to as colleges -- there is no real equivalent of the Brit post-sixth-form college so... I think this was the right choice.

14D: nice deception given that Jerusalem is often referred to as the "City of [King] David"