Comments on: Financial Times 13,984 by Mudd

By: Pete Maclean

Pete Maclean — Sat, 19 May 2012 17:53:45 +0000

Keeper, Thanks for bringing this up. I am surprised actually that I did not comment on the issue. It did vaguely occur to me to check on Guam’s status but then I never followed through. I was aware that Guam is a US Territory but was unsure if that meant it was not a country.

By: Keeper

Keeper — Sat, 19 May 2012 15:53:37 +0000

Thanks for the blog, Pete. I’m surprised no one commented on 4d. Guam is not a country; it is a territory of the United States. Another one that got past the editors. (For a second I thought the “not quite” might serve to indicate Guam’s status as “not quite” a country, but the phrase is already doing duty to direct us to drop the M.)

By: Pete Maclean

Pete Maclean — Thu, 03 May 2012 18:18:21 +0000

Ah, 20D took me a few minutes to figure out! As for 8D, I happen to be especially fond of Afghans, partly because of their long silky coats.

By: Bamberger

Bamberger — Thu, 03 May 2012 18:08:05 +0000

I was left wondering how 8d & 20d worked and I would never have got there so thanks for the explanations.