Comments on: Financial Times 14,158 by Mudd

By: Pete Maclean

Pete Maclean — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 18:29:21 +0000

Hi Bamberger. ‘Wotcher’ is a word I must have used a few times in my youth but would not use these days. Likewise I doubt I have ever used ‘legless’ but it is a term I come across occasionally.

Thanks for commenting.

By: Bamberger

Bamberger — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 18:03:58 +0000

Couldn’t get 1a (should have done), 11a -not a word I’d ever use and 16a.
Otherwise no problems.

Thanks for the blog.

By: Pete Maclean

Pete Maclean — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 02:34:40 +0000

Ah, that fits very well. Thanks, Bob.

By: Bob Cumbow

Bob Cumbow — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 01:29:50 +0000

I think the run of notes in 20a is specifically chromatic because it includes the E-Flat. The traditional diatonic scale contains just the “white-key” notes (C,D,E,F,G,A,B); the chromatic scale also includes the “black-key” sharps and flats that lie in between. I don’t know a lot about music either, except as a listener; so my terminology might be a little off.