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Christopher Carson
May 16th, 2012, 08:02 AM
We have a total of 19 definitions for YORGAN, one of which actually
appears in a dictionary. Please vote for your two favorites, by public
reply to this message, before deadline, which is 8:00 AM EDT on Friday,
May 18, 2012, or 5:00 AM PDT .

1. (Also _jorgan_) A longbow; an archer.

2. A small cottage.

3. A pirate vessel of the early 18th century, esp. one plying Caribbean
waters.

4. A motorized three-wheeled vehicle.

5. A type of Ottoman knife or short sabre used from the mid-16th to late
19th centuries.

6. _Obs._ One who blows the ashes or fire; a term of reproach among
northern nations for an unwarlike fellow who stayed at home in the
chimney-corner.

7. A semi-arid biome typical of the area surrounding the Caspian Sea.

8. A style of portable camping hut or tent with a closable center
skylight.

9. A kind of cheese made from goat milk.

10. Council Chamber used by Shoshone Indians.

11. A mountain peak in Southeast Asia more commonly called "Dragon's
Tooth".

12. An application to the eye, usually an eyewater.

13. A quilt.

14. A New Yorker transplanted to Oregon.

15. A species of flowering tree in the mulberry family, Moraceae, growing
throughout Southeast Asia and most Pacific Ocean islands.

16. A softwood from South America.

17. A horse-pulled litter made with two poles and a blanket.

18. A lobe-finned fish long thought to be extinct.

19. The individual skins that when sewn together make up the covering of a
yurt.

James Zorbas
May 16th, 2012, 08:10 AM
8 and 17 ring my chimes today



-----Original Message-----
From: Christopher Carson <clcarson (AT) live (DOT) com>
To: dixonary <dixonary (AT) googlegroups (DOT) com>
Sent: Wed, May 16, 2012 9:02 am
Subject: [Dixonary] Round 2305: Yorgan - Definition List


We have a total of 19 definitions for YORGAN, one of which actually
ppears in a dictionary. Please vote for your two favorites, by public
eply to this message, before deadline, which is 8:00 AM EDT on Friday,
ay 18, 2012, or 5:00 AM PDT .
1. (Also _jorgan_) A longbow; an archer.
2. A small cottage.
3. A pirate vessel of the early 18th century, esp. one plying Caribbean
aters.
4. A motorized three-wheeled vehicle.
5. A type of Ottoman knife or short sabre used from the mid-16th to late
9th centuries.
6. _Obs._ One who blows the ashes or fire; a term of reproach among
orthern nations for an unwarlike fellow who stayed at home in the
himney-corner.
7. A semi-arid biome typical of the area surrounding the Caspian Sea.
8. A style of portable camping hut or tent with a closable center
kylight.
9. A kind of cheese made from goat milk.
10. Council Chamber used by Shoshone Indians.
11. A mountain peak in Southeast Asia more commonly called "Dragon's
ooth".
12. An application to the eye, usually an eyewater.
13. A quilt.
14. A New Yorker transplanted to Oregon.
15. A species of flowering tree in the mulberry family, Moraceae, growing
hroughout Southeast Asia and most Pacific Ocean islands.
16. A softwood from South America.
17. A horse-pulled litter made with two poles and a blanket.
18. A lobe-finned fish long thought to be extinct.
19. The individual skins that when sewn together make up the covering of a
urt.

Judy Madnick
May 16th, 2012, 09:03 AM
1. (Also _jorgan_) A longbow; an archer.

5. A type of Ottoman knife or short sabre used from the mid-16th to late
19th centuries.

Judy Madnick

Frances Wetzstein
May 16th, 2012, 09:38 AM
I'll go for:

5. A type of Ottoman knife or short sabre used from the
mid-16th to late 19th centuries.

and

9. A kind of cheese made from goat milk

France International/Mike Shefler
May 16th, 2012, 09:39 AM
'll vote for the unlikely 6 and 14.

Tim B
May 16th, 2012, 09:48 AM
2 and 13, please.

Best wishes,
Tim Bourne.

EnDash@aol.com
May 16th, 2012, 10:45 AM
Inasmuch as none of these seem plausible to me, I will take 10 and 13 for
no special reasons.


10. Council Chamber used by Shoshone Indians.

13. A quilt.

-- Dick Weltz.

Daniel Widdis
May 16th, 2012, 11:59 AM
6 because I believe it, and 14 because it made me laugh

--
Dan

Tim Lodge
May 16th, 2012, 04:30 PM
I'll take one long one and one short one:

> 13. A quilt.
>
> 15. A species of flowering tree in the mulberry family, Moraceae, growing
> throughout Southeast Asia and most Pacific Ocean islands.

-- Tim L

Steve Graham
May 16th, 2012, 05:23 PM
5 and 6 please.

Steve Graham

Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too
dark to read. Groucho Marx

5. A type of Ottoman knife or short sabre used from the mid-16th to late
19th centuries.

6. _Obs._ One who blows the ashes or fire; a term of reproach among
northern nations for an unwarlike fellow who stayed at home in the
chimney-corner.

Guerri Stevens
May 16th, 2012, 06:14 PM
I vote for 4 and 10.

Guerri

Christopher Carson wrote:
>
> 4. A motorized three-wheeled vehicle.
>
> 10. Council Chamber used by Shoshone Indians.

Dodi Schultz
May 16th, 2012, 06:56 PM
I like

1. (Also _jorgan_) A longbow; an archer.

and

17. A horse-pulled litter made with two poles and a blanket.

—Dodi

—Keith Hale—
May 16th, 2012, 09:06 PM
Well, once again, by the time i wake up and vote, my two choices are rather
popular. Sticking to my guns, i go with #1 & #6, please!

scott crom
May 16th, 2012, 10:59 PM
I'll have 5 and 8, please.

Scott

Jim Hart
May 17th, 2012, 03:26 AM
It may be an inefficient weapon but I'll try a longbow made of softwood - 1
and 16

Jim

John Barrs
May 17th, 2012, 05:47 AM
If I'm in time, I'll take #7 and #14 for no reasons at all

JohnnyB

>
> 7. A semi-arid biome typical of the area surrounding the Caspian Sea.
>
>
>
> 13. A quilt.
>
>

Tony Abell
May 17th, 2012, 09:28 AM
Having no idea, and being annoyed at having to use tapcis.com because Google Groups no longer sends email reliably to my Dixonary email address, I'll take two from the middle, 13 and 14:


13. A quilt.

14. A New Yorker transplanted to Oregon.

Dodi Schultz
May 17th, 2012, 10:57 AM
On 5/17/2012 10:28 AM, Tony Abell wrote:
> Having no idea, and being annoyed at having to use tapcis.com because
> Google Groups no longer sends email reliably to my Dixonary email
> address . . .

Can't one of the moderators fix that, so GG will again send Dixonary stuff
to that address?

Christopher Carson
May 17th, 2012, 11:48 AM
The sending of email is an individual membership setting, not one that the
moderators can make. Since I think most people who play by mail (such as
me) are getting email from the group, an individual not getting mail is
usually the result of something unique to the member's email address or
server.

CC


-----Original Message-----
From: Dodi Schultz
Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2012 11:57 AM
To: dixonary (AT) googlegroups (DOT) com
Subject: Re: [Dixonary] Round 2305: Yorgan - Definition List

On 5/17/2012 10:28 AM, Tony Abell wrote:
> Having no idea, and being annoyed at having to use tapcis.com because
> Google Groups no longer sends email reliably to my Dixonary email
> address . . .

Can't one of the moderators fix that, so GG will again send Dixonary stuff
to that address?

Bill Bensburg
May 17th, 2012, 01:03 PM
12 & 13, please!

Bill

Tony Abell
May 17th, 2012, 04:36 PM
The sending of email is an individual membership setting, not one that the moderators can make.

One would certainly think so, yet this is not the case with me. In fact, I have no way of checking or changing the parameters of my email subscription to the Dixonary Google group. If I go to the Google web page for the group, I can see the messages only as a non-group member. That's because I am logged in to Google using my gmail address credentials, not the email address I use for Dixonary. A moderator added my subscription when we switched to Google, but I have no access to it.

It might be possible to create a new Google account based on my isanybodyhome.com identity that would have such access, but I'd rather not bother. I'm 95% sure the subscription settings are correct anyway, because I do get about 20% of the messages in email, just not a high enough percentage to make play feasible. Before last weekend, there was no problem.

My best guess is that some change in the way Google sends out email has made their servers largely intolerant of the mail server for my domain. The server can be heavily loaded at times, and if Google's servers can't connect quickly, they may just drop the message.

Hugo Kornelis
May 17th, 2012, 05:04 PM
Hi Tony,

I have already went in and checked your settings for the group the first
time this was mentioned. I saw nothing out of the ordinary.

I just now checked again, and this is still the case - Tony is a member
under the hello is anybody home mail, which is set to receive copies of
all individual mails as they arrive to the group.

Your remark that you do receive some messages reinforces this. Google
groups either sends out messages, or it doesn't. If only some of them
arrive, I suspect some sort of spam filter between Google groups and
your computer.

Cheers,
Hugo


Op 17-5-2012 23:36, Tony Abell schreef:
> Christopher Carson;71987 Wrote:
>> The sending of email is an individual membership setting, not one that
>> the moderators can make.
> One would certainly think so, yet this is not the case with me. In
> fact, I have no way of checking or changing the parameters of my email
> subscription to the Dixonary Google group. If I go to the Google web
> page for the group, I can see the messages only as a non-group member.
> That's because I am logged in to Google using my gmail address
> credentials, not the email address I use for Dixonary. A moderator
> added my subscription when we switched to Google, but I have no access
> to it.
>
> It might be possible to create a new Google account based on my
> isanybodyhome.com identity that would have such access, but I'd rather
> not bother. I'm 95% sure the subscription settings are correct anyway,
> because I do get about 20% of the messages in email, just not a high
> enough percentage to make play feasible. Before last weekend, there was
> no problem.
>
> My best guess is that some change in the way Google sends out email has
> made their servers largely intolerant of the mail server for my domain.
> The server can be heavily loaded at times, and if Google's servers can't
> connect quickly, they may just drop the message.
>
>

Jim Hart
May 17th, 2012, 07:24 PM
You say 7 and 14 but you quote 7 and 13.

??


On Thursday, 17 May 2012 20:47:14 UTC+10, JohnnyB wrote:
>
> If I'm in time, I'll take #7 and #14 for no reasons at all
>
> JohnnyB
>
>>
>> 7. A semi-arid biome typical of the area surrounding the Caspian Sea.
>>
>>
>>
>> 13. A quilt.
>>
>>
>

thejazzmonger
May 17th, 2012, 07:56 PM
#3 - a pirate vessel

#13 - a quilt

steve d

Dave Cunningham
May 17th, 2012, 08:31 PM
6 and 17 lest I be right


Dave

On Wednesday, May 16, 2012 9:02:28 AM UTC-4, Chris wrote:

> We have a total of 19 definitions for YORGAN, one of which actually
> appears in a dictionary. Please vote for your two favorites, by public
> reply to this message, before deadline, which is 8:00 AM EDT on Friday,
> May 18, 2012, or 5:00 AM PDT .
>
> 1. (Also _jorgan_) A longbow; an archer.
>
> 2. A small cottage.
>
> 3. A pirate vessel of the early 18th century, esp. one plying Caribbean
> waters.
>
> 4. A motorized three-wheeled vehicle.
>
> 5. A type of Ottoman knife or short sabre used from the mid-16th to late
> 19th centuries.
>
> 6. _Obs._ One who blows the ashes or fire; a term of reproach among
> northern nations for an unwarlike fellow who stayed at home in the
> chimney-corner.
>
> 7. A semi-arid biome typical of the area surrounding the Caspian Sea.
>
> 8. A style of portable camping hut or tent with a closable center
> skylight.
>
> 9. A kind of cheese made from goat milk.
>
> 10. Council Chamber used by Shoshone Indians.
>
> 11. A mountain peak in Southeast Asia more commonly called "Dragon's
> Tooth".
>
> 12. An application to the eye, usually an eyewater.
>
> 13. A quilt.
>
> 14. A New Yorker transplanted to Oregon.
>
> 15. A species of flowering tree in the mulberry family, Moraceae, growing
> throughout Southeast Asia and most Pacific Ocean islands.
>
> 16. A softwood from South America.
>
> 17. A horse-pulled litter made with two poles and a blanket.
>
> 18. A lobe-finned fish long thought to be extinct.
>
> 19. The individual skins that when sewn together make up the covering of a
> yurt.
>
>

Tony Abell
May 18th, 2012, 12:52 AM
On 2012-05-17 at 18:04 Hugo Kornelis wrote:

> If only some of them arrive, I suspect some sort of spam filter between
> Google groups and your computer.

That's the one thing I can be reasonably certain is not the case, as I control
the receiving server, which communicates directly with Google's servers. There
is no spam filtering of this account. That's also why I want to continue using
the email address I do--I don't have to worry about losing messages to
mysterious spam filters.

Unfortunately, there are other ways messages can go astray or never be sent,
as we have seen.

Millie Morgan
May 18th, 2012, 04:11 AM
I'll take the transport thanks Chris ...

4. A motorized three-wheeled vehicle.
17. A horse-pulled litter made with two poles and a blanket.

--Millie

Hugo Kornelis
May 18th, 2012, 07:31 AM
In that case, I am at a loss as to why you miss so many messages.

Maybe someone with more knowledge of the technical backgrounds of Google
Groups can chime in?

Op 18-5-2012 7:52, Tony Abell schreef:
> On 2012-05-17 at 18:04 Hugo Kornelis wrote:
>
>> If only some of them arrive, I suspect some sort of spam filter between
>> Google groups and your computer.
> That's the one thing I can be reasonably certain is not the case, as I control
> the receiving server, which communicates directly with Google's servers. There
> is no spam filtering of this account. That's also why I want to continue using
> the email address I do--I don't have to worry about losing messages to
> mysterious spam filters.
>
> Unfortunately, there are other ways messages can go astray or never be sent,
> as we have seen.
>
>

Steve Graham
May 18th, 2012, 09:22 AM
I haven't counted, but it seems to me that the off-topic replies to Yorgan
now outnumber the votes....

Perhaps a new subject is in order?

Steve Graham

Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too
dark to read. Groucho Marx


-----Original Message-----
From: dixonary (AT) googlegroups (DOT) com [mailto:dixonary (AT) googlegroups (DOT) com] On Behalf
Of Hugo Kornelis
Sent: Friday, May 18, 2012 5:32 AM
To: dixonary (AT) googlegroups (DOT) com
Subject: Re: [Dixonary] Round 2305: Yorgan - Definition List

In that case, I am at a loss as to why you miss so many messages.

Maybe someone with more knowledge of the technical backgrounds of Google
Groups can chime in?

Op 18-5-2012 7:52, Tony Abell schreef:
> On 2012-05-17 at 18:04 Hugo Kornelis wrote:
>
>> If only some of them arrive, I suspect some sort of spam filter between
>> Google groups and your computer.
> That's the one thing I can be reasonably certain is not the case, as I
control
> the receiving server, which communicates directly with Google's servers.
There
> is no spam filtering of this account. That's also why I want to continue
using
> the email address I do--I don't have to worry about losing messages to
> mysterious spam filters.
>
> Unfortunately, there are other ways messages can go astray or never be
sent,
> as we have seen.
>
>

Toni Savage
May 19th, 2012, 10:46 AM
THANK YOU!!* I think that needed saying.


-- Toni Savage


>________________________________
>From: Steve Graham <sdgraham (AT) duckswild (DOT) com>
>To: dixonary (AT) googlegroups (DOT) com
>Sent: Friday, May 18, 2012 10:22 AM
>Subject: RE: [Dixonary] Round 2305: Yorgan - Definition List - OT
>
>I haven't counted, but it seems to me that the off-topic replies to Yorgan
>now outnumber the votes....
>
>Perhaps a new subject is in order?
>
>Steve Graham
>
>Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too
>dark to read. Groucho Marx
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: dixonary (AT) googlegroups (DOT) com [mailto:dixonary (AT) googlegroups (DOT) com] On Behalf
>Of Hugo Kornelis
>Sent: Friday, May 18, 2012 5:32 AM
>To: dixonary (AT) googlegroups (DOT) com
>Subject: Re: [Dixonary] Round 2305: Yorgan - Definition List
>
>In that case, I am at a loss as to why you miss so many messages.
>
>Maybe someone with more knowledge of the technical backgrounds of Google
>Groups can chime in?
>
>Op 18-5-2012 7:52, Tony Abell schreef:
>> On 2012-05-17 at 18:04 Hugo Kornelis wrote:
>>
>>> If only some of them arrive, I suspect some sort of spam filter between
>>> Google groups and your computer.
>> That's the one thing I can be reasonably certain is not the case, as I
>control
>> the receiving server, which communicates directly with Google's servers.
>There
>> is no spam filtering of this account. That's also why I want to continue
>using
>> the email address I do--I don't have to worry about losing messages to
>> mysterious spam filters.
>>
>> Unfortunately, there are other ways messages can go astray or never be
>sent,
>> as we have seen.
>>
>>
>
>
>
>
>

Tony Abell
May 19th, 2012, 12:47 PM
On 2012-05-18 at 10:2 Steve Graham wrote:

>>I haven't counted, but it seems to me that the off-topic replies to Yorgan
>>now outnumber the votes....

On 2012-05-19 at 11:46 Toni Savage wrote:

> THANK YOU!!* I think that needed saying.

Ahem.

YORGAN vote replies: 21
OT (email problem) messages, including this one: 9

So that's a lot of off-topic messages, but not close to being more than voting
messages. Yet.