Comments on: Guardian 25,396 – Chifonie http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/08/09/guardian-25396-chifonie/ Never knowingly undersolved. Thu, 23 May 2013 00:57:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: tupu http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/08/09/guardian-25396-chifonie/#comment-167074 tupu Wed, 10 Aug 2011 07:08:43 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=32760#comment-167074 Hi Scarpia
Thanks for the Armstrong link. I’m sure you are right. I just wanted to draw attention to a song that older solvers like myself had probably heard in one version or another, and the Benton link came up first with the lyrics.

]]> By: Scarpia http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/08/09/guardian-25396-chifonie/#comment-167046 Scarpia Tue, 09 Aug 2011 22:25:38 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=32760#comment-167046 Thanks Uncle Yap,
As others have already said,about on a par with yesterday’s puzzle.Fairly and amusingly clued but pretty easy going(2 out 5 NeilW @2!).
Further to tupu’s link @9,the song was around for a long time before Brook Benton’s version – the best(IMO) being this one by Louis Armstrong http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6r1baNdgImo

]]> By: Ann Kittenplan http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/08/09/guardian-25396-chifonie/#comment-167043 Ann Kittenplan Tue, 09 Aug 2011 21:40:27 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=32760#comment-167043 Thanks Chifonie and Uncle Yap. Was really tuned in to this one. Even managed Abednego. Incan descent :-) It even got me to go and learn something new with Petra.

]]> By: Craney http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/08/09/guardian-25396-chifonie/#comment-167042 Craney Tue, 09 Aug 2011 20:41:44 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=32760#comment-167042 Small world – I used to lived on Street Lane in Roundhay until only last year! Nice place. Enjoyed this xword, didn’t get Abednego or Pierce though.

]]> By: tupu http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/08/09/guardian-25396-chifonie/#comment-167041 tupu Tue, 09 Aug 2011 19:39:17 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=32760#comment-167041 OED gives ‘house-clean’, ‘house-cleaner’, ‘house-cleaning’ but some of the examples are spelled without a hyphen.

One sad tale reads
’1905 Daily Chron. 16 May 5/5 ‘A house-cleaner?who was maddened with liquor, to-day shot?his landlady’.

Partridge (1925 Usage and Ubusage) is quoted as approving of both ‘house-clean’ (or ‘houseclean’) as a ‘permissible – and very convenient – word’.

The simple word ‘cleaner’ (presumably contextually implyingr ‘housecleaner’) is of course standard usage.

]]> By: Paul B http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/08/09/guardian-25396-chifonie/#comment-167040 Paul B Tue, 09 Aug 2011 18:54:58 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=32760#comment-167040 Not sure if K’s D is absolutely right at 28: HOUSECLEANING appears in neither Chambers nor Collins, and so, probably, exists only as a two-word phrase. But no-one could argue that it’s totally okay as an entry. Just as CLEANING HOUSE would be okay too. Perhaps just an oversight on the part of the Guardian’s crack editing squad.

Very enjoyable puzzle from the Lakeside Logodaedalus.

]]> By: apiarist http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/08/09/guardian-25396-chifonie/#comment-167037 apiarist Tue, 09 Aug 2011 18:12:36 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=32760#comment-167037 I used an Oxford Spellchecker, (naughty I know), and whereas it recognised housekeeping and housework – it gave me both those words as alternatives. Housecleaning just does not look right !

]]> By: Kathryn's Dad http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/08/09/guardian-25396-chifonie/#comment-167036 Kathryn's Dad Tue, 09 Aug 2011 17:50:19 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=32760#comment-167036 apiarist, I guess if HOUSEWORK and HOUSEKEEPING are all one word, then HOUSECLEANING can be too. It looked fine to me.

]]> By: apiarist http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/08/09/guardian-25396-chifonie/#comment-167035 apiarist Tue, 09 Aug 2011 17:24:32 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=32760#comment-167035 Surely house cleaning is two words ?

]]> By: caretman http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/08/09/guardian-25396-chifonie/#comment-167029 caretman Tue, 09 Aug 2011 16:15:10 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=32760#comment-167029 Thanks, UY @6, for the description of how you do the blog. The care you take really comes through and I much appreciate it. Your Glen Morangie is well-merited!

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