Comments on: Independent 6902/Phi http://www.fifteensquared.net/2008/11/28/independent-6902phi/ Never knowingly undersolved. Sun, 19 May 2013 05:47:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: eimi http://www.fifteensquared.net/2008/11/28/independent-6902phi/#comment-56394 eimi Sun, 30 Nov 2008 18:41:23 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=4203#comment-56394 How strange – my 2007 Ninth Edition Collins English Dictionary has opalesce, as does my 2004 CD-ROM. I don’t have a 2008 Collins, but I thought I’d check out the Collins website and finally get around to registering using the code on my dictionary’s dust jacket. After being informed that I was subscribed until 2050, I searched for opalesce and there it was (still). It seems a very nice site, by the way.

]]> By: John http://www.fifteensquared.net/2008/11/28/independent-6902phi/#comment-56269 John Sat, 29 Nov 2008 23:06:58 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=4203#comment-56269 The plot thickens. There it is, but at the bottom of the page it says that it’s the 2000 edition, so perhaps opalesce has been dropped from the most recent one.

]]> By: Geoff Moss http://www.fifteensquared.net/2008/11/28/independent-6902phi/#comment-56263 Geoff Moss Sat, 29 Nov 2008 22:46:44 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=4203#comment-56263 John
See the following link for the Collins definition of ‘opalesce’:

http://dictionary.reverso.net/english-definitions/opalesce

]]> By: John http://www.fifteensquared.net/2008/11/28/independent-6902phi/#comment-56261 John Sat, 29 Nov 2008 22:29:51 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=4203#comment-56261 Opalesce

Eimi I don’t know what’s happening. My version of Collins is dated 2008, is Collins English Dictionary, and under opalescent it says ‘adj having shimmering changing reflections’ like opal’ and then ‘opalescence n’. Nowhere either here or under the heading for opal is the word opalesce. Perhaps there was something dodgy about the fact that I paid £6.25 for it, with a sticker saying 75% off, in WH Smith recently.

]]> By: eimi http://www.fifteensquared.net/2008/11/28/independent-6902phi/#comment-56131 eimi Sat, 29 Nov 2008 01:22:18 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=4203#comment-56131 Generally Collins and COED are the preferred references for daily puzzles, but words that are only in Chambers are considered acceptable for prize puzzles. Opalesce as a verb is in my Collins

]]> By: John http://www.fifteensquared.net/2008/11/28/independent-6902phi/#comment-56109 John Fri, 28 Nov 2008 22:58:23 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=4203#comment-56109 I missed the fact that ‘opalesce’ isn’t universally supported, Michael. Neither Chambers nor Collins give it, but the COD does. So I suppose it’s OK.

(Actually, if anyone is reading this and knows the answer, please could you tell me what dictionaries the Indy uses? I know about The Times but not The Indy.)

]]> By: Michael http://www.fifteensquared.net/2008/11/28/independent-6902phi/#comment-56094 Michael Fri, 28 Nov 2008 19:58:58 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=4203#comment-56094 What do you think of “opalesce” as a verb? Looks wrong to me! Otherwise the usual high-Phi standard.

]]> By: Testy http://www.fifteensquared.net/2008/11/28/independent-6902phi/#comment-56022 Testy Fri, 28 Nov 2008 13:19:14 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=4203#comment-56022 Just great! Nothing more to say.

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