Comments on: Azed 2090/French letters

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sun, 01 Jul 2012 23:53:22 +0000

Norman: as a verb, to guy is to tease, so A + guy = A + TEASE = AT EASE = comfortably relaxed.

By: Norman Hall

Norman Hall — Sun, 01 Jul 2012 23:07:16 +0000

I’m not sure how 30ac is parsed.
Unless a guy is a tease. (Chambers 2011 not at hand).

By: RCWhiting

RCWhiting — Sun, 01 Jul 2012 19:54:00 +0000

Thanks all
Ref Pelham on ‘maiden’. It struck me as a quite bizarre decision to put the section in the middle.
For years various dictionaries have had useful or otherwise extras tucked away at the front or back where they remain entirely optional.
What was somebody thinking when they decided to change such a sensible custom.

By: ilancaron

ilancaron — Sun, 01 Jul 2012 17:25:21 +0000

Thanks for finding PR (I obviously couldn’t). And you’re right of course about 31A — I was a bit hasty in my notes since I was so excited about understanding everything.

Too bad about “Some First Names” — I wonder if this means that names and their etymology is now off-limits to setters?

By: Pelham Barton

Pelham Barton — Sun, 01 Jul 2012 14:49:29 +0000

Thanks Azed for the usual entertainment and ilancaron for the blog. The section "Some First Names" has been omitted from the latest Chambers, presumably in part to make room for two new sections: The Word Lover's Miscellany and A Wordgame Companion. These appear in the middle of the dictionary, which is occasionally irritating when searching for words near maiden - the word whose entry is split by the new sections. 15ac: PR for "prize ring" is indeed given explicitly in the paper version of Chambers 2011. 31ac: This needs to be anagram ("faulty") of CDs, not reversal.