Comments on: Azed 1874 – A Slip of the Pen http://www.fifteensquared.net/2008/05/04/azed-1874-a-slip-of-the-pen/ Never knowingly undersolved. Wed, 22 May 2013 09:40:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: roland http://www.fifteensquared.net/2008/05/04/azed-1874-a-slip-of-the-pen/#comment-23702 roland Tue, 06 May 2008 19:55:14 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=1498#comment-23702 This could easily be rubbish, but a French teacher of mine informed me (all those years ago) that there are many European languages in which the word for “hand” is feminine, even when it looks as though it should be masculine. No doubt there are plenty of counter-examples?

]]> By: petebiddlecombe http://www.fifteensquared.net/2008/05/04/azed-1874-a-slip-of-the-pen/#comment-23647 petebiddlecombe Tue, 06 May 2008 16:30:35 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=1498#comment-23647 I don’t know whether it’s so special in Spanish, but in Italian, “la mano” = hand, feminine, is an exception to the rules that nouns ending -o are masculine, which makes the slip perhaps forgiveable. A quick flick through my Eng/Sp dictionary suggests that at least most Spanish -o nouns are masculine too.

]]> By: roland http://www.fifteensquared.net/2008/05/04/azed-1874-a-slip-of-the-pen/#comment-23120 roland Mon, 05 May 2008 10:07:19 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=1498#comment-23120 I thought ASKER was very jolly.

]]> By: tilsit http://www.fifteensquared.net/2008/05/04/azed-1874-a-slip-of-the-pen/#comment-22866 tilsit Sun, 04 May 2008 15:44:14 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=1498#comment-22866 Thanks Andrew

I had amended the BESO LOS MANOS entry, just after I wrote this posting on Thursday last and time-locked it. I thought it had corrected itself. I’ve made the amendment.

20 was a bit slipshod of me in assuming that solvers would have known it was Latin for “seat”. Apologies.

]]> By: Andrew http://www.fifteensquared.net/2008/05/04/azed-1874-a-slip-of-the-pen/#comment-22844 Andrew Sun, 04 May 2008 14:08:06 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=1498#comment-22844 The first word in 8dn is BESO, not BASO – presumably a typo in the blog, as it crosses on of the Es in FREEWHEEL.

]]> By: Andrew http://www.fifteensquared.net/2008/05/04/azed-1874-a-slip-of-the-pen/#comment-22843 Andrew Sun, 04 May 2008 14:05:26 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=1498#comment-22843 20dn is more than just a palindrome; “but you are” = SED ES, which occurs “up and down” in the answer; and it’s Latin, so it’s “there”, i.e. in the Vatican.

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