Comments on: Independent 7003 by Phi http://www.fifteensquared.net/2009/03/27/independent-7003-by-phi/ Never knowingly undersolved. Sat, 18 May 2013 16:27:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: nmsindy http://www.fifteensquared.net/2009/03/27/independent-7003-by-phi/#comment-77386 nmsindy Sun, 29 Mar 2009 11:48:22 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=6697#comment-77386 26 ac – You’re perfectly right, Wil, thanks.

]]> By: Wil Ransome http://www.fifteensquared.net/2009/03/27/independent-7003-by-phi/#comment-77050 Wil Ransome Sat, 28 Mar 2009 00:20:36 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=6697#comment-77050 26ac: I’m not sure the parsing in the blog is correct, since it would give dsypeptic. Isn’t it d (cit(peps)y)rev.?

6ac: Doesn’t it depend on whether ‘returning’ is transitive or intransitive? The clue as written could lead to either, which in my opinion is unsatisfactory.

]]> By: Phi http://www.fifteensquared.net/2009/03/27/independent-7003-by-phi/#comment-77000 Phi Fri, 27 Mar 2009 17:58:38 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=6697#comment-77000 If I was talking about male sopranos, I’d use counter-tenor. In the general SATB usage (as given by Chambers’ abbreviations) it’s a female voice.

Dirac – I’d noted the biog, but I think I must do Bohr first. Dirac is undoubtedly a fascinating and peculiar character, as Segre’s book on the Copenhagen conferences makes clear (can’t remember its title, nor put an acute accent on the author’s last e).

Many years ago, at the start of my scientific career and at the very very end of his, I did attend a lecture by Dirac.

]]> By: Colin Blackburn http://www.fifteensquared.net/2009/03/27/independent-7003-by-phi/#comment-76981 Colin Blackburn Fri, 27 Mar 2009 15:28:43 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=6697#comment-76981 Wikipedia, for what it’s worth, suggests that soprano is typically a female voice with various other terms usually used to refer to a male soprano. I guess terms like this are always debatable.

Wikipedia entry for soprano

]]> By: nmsindy http://www.fifteensquared.net/2009/03/27/independent-7003-by-phi/#comment-76978 nmsindy Fri, 27 Mar 2009 15:10:12 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=6697#comment-76978 Thanks, Colin, that possibility did occur to me so, before posting the blog, I looked up ‘soprano’ in dicts but no indication that a soprano was female was given – as you say, this may be because it’s usually but not exclusively the case.

]]> By: Colin Blackburn http://www.fifteensquared.net/2009/03/27/independent-7003-by-phi/#comment-76974 Colin Blackburn Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:42:50 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=6697#comment-76974 A soprano is (generally) a female singer which would then give BRAVA rather than BRAVO.

I wonder is Phi has just read the newly published biography of Paul Dirac. Nice to see him appear in a puzzle.

]]> By: C.G. Rishikesh http://www.fifteensquared.net/2009/03/27/independent-7003-by-phi/#comment-76941 C.G. Rishikesh Fri, 27 Mar 2009 12:09:59 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=6697#comment-76941 17d: ‘Soprano’s excellent’: maybe because BRAVA is ‘excellent’ in Italian and ‘soprano’ is Italian?

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