[Dixonary] Round 2308, Time to Choose

[Dodi Schultz]

The word is YIRN, and this is the shortest list I've seen in a long, long
time. I even gave it a couple of extra hours! (Maybe it's the holiday
weekend; but is our Memorial Day observed in other countries as well?) You
have a mere 15 possibilities to pick from (yes, the real definition is
among them), which of course raises the odds of guessing correctly.

Do so by choosing the TWO defs you think most likely to have come from an
actual dictionary. Vote publicly, BY DIRECT REPLY TO THIS MESSAGE.

You may vote even if you failed to submit a definition. You may vote even
if you've just joined Dixonary. But you may NOT vote if you now realize
that you KNOW the real definition. In that case, if you're one of those who
submitted a def, you should NOT reply to this message; instead, e-mail me
privately and let me know you've recused yourself.

The deadline for your responses: Sunday 27 May, 8 a.m. EDT; that will be
crack-of-dawnish or earlier west of here; 1 and 2 p.m. in England and the
Netherlands respectively; and 10 p.m. for our players in Victoria.

Dodi

Here's the list:

1. [ON] years.

2. a tree spirit.

3. a civil servant.

4. a funeral pyre.

5. to twist or bind in a spiral.

6. to twitch; to tickle or pinch.

7. to beat or thresh (as, grain).

8. to whine; complain; also, to grimace.

9. the angle of twist built into wire rope.

10. a flaking yeast that forms on a cow's udder.

11. a wooden device for pressing designs in butter.

12. [Obs.] to entice or persuade by soft, flattering words.

13. the edge of a glacier, where icebergs calve into the sea.

14. an obsolete measure of time, thought to be roughly four months.

15. the point at which the arms of a Y-shaped broadcast antenna diverge.

[Frances Wetzstein]

#4 and #5 for me, please and thank you.

FW

-

[Judy Madnick]

"You have a mere 15 possibilities to pick from (yes, the real definition is among them), which of course raises the odds of guessing correctly."


That probably won't help me at all!

I'll go with 1 and 13.

Judy

[Guerri Stevens]

I vote for 2 and 9.

Guerri

Dodi Schultz wrote:
>
> 2. a tree spirit.
>
> 9. the angle of twist built into wire rope.

[—Keith Hale—]

I'll select 5 & 9 please!

[Bill Bensburg]

4 and 10, please, Dodi!

Thanks!

Bill

[Steve Graham]

9 and 11 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

9. the angle of twist built into wire rope.

11. a wooden device for pressing designs in butter.

[John Barrs]

Dodi

#1 and #12 please

I cannot see my own def so maybe you didn't receive it

re the holiday weekend: normally it would be one of our bank holidays but
this year it has been postponed until next weekend for the Queen's Diamond
Jubille - however the weather this week has been spectacularly warm (for
us).


JohnnyB


> 1. [ON] years.
>
>
>
> 12. [Obs.] to entice or persuade by soft, flattering words.
>
>
>

[thejazzmonger]

#4 - a funeral pyre

# 9 - the angle of twist built into wire rope

steve d

[James Zorbas]

7 and 8 this time....



-----Original Message-----
From: Dodi Schultz <DodiSchultz (AT) nasw (DOT) org>
To: Dixonary <Dixonary (AT) googlegroups (DOT) com>
Sent: Fri, May 25, 2012 8:06 pm
Subject: [Dixonary] Round 2308, Time to Choose



he word is YIRN, and this is the shortest list I've seen in a long, long
ime. I even gave it a couple of extra hours! (Maybe it's the holiday
eekend; but is our Memorial Day observed in other countries as well?) You
ave a mere 15 possibilities to pick from (yes, the real definition is
mong them), which of course raises the odds of guessing correctly.
Do so by choosing the TWO defs you think most likely to have come from an
ctual dictionary. Vote publicly, BY DIRECT REPLY TO THIS MESSAGE.
You may vote even if you failed to submit a definition. You may vote even
f you've just joined Dixonary. But you may NOT vote if you now realize
hat you KNOW the real definition. In that case, if you're one of those who
ubmitted a def, you should NOT reply to this message; instead, e-mail me
rivately and let me know you've recused yourself.
The deadline for your responses: Sunday 27 May, 8 a.m. EDT; that will be
rack-of-dawnish or earlier west of here; 1 and 2 p.m. in England and the
etherlands respectively; and 10 p.m. for our players in Victoria.
Dodi
Here's the list:
1. [ON] years.
2. a tree spirit.
3. a civil servant.
4. a funeral pyre.
5. to twist or bind in a spiral.
6. to twitch; to tickle or pinch.
7. to beat or thresh (as, grain).
8. to whine; complain; also, to grimace.
9. the angle of twist built into wire rope.
10. a flaking yeast that forms on a cow's udder.
11. a wooden device for pressing designs in butter.
12. [Obs.] to entice or persuade by soft, flattering words.
13. the edge of a glacier, where icebergs calve into the sea.
14. an obsolete measure of time, thought to be roughly four months.
15. the point at which the arms of a Y-shaped broadcast antenna diverge.

[Dave Cunningham]

5 and 8 just because

Dave

On Friday, May 25, 2012 8:06:10 PM UTC-4, Dodi Schultz wrote:

>
> The word is YIRN, and this is the shortest list I've seen in a long, long
> time. I even gave it a couple of extra hours! (Maybe it's the holiday
> weekend; but is our Memorial Day observed in other countries as well?) You
> have a mere 15 possibilities to pick from (yes, the real definition is
> among them), which of course raises the odds of guessing correctly.
>
> Do so by choosing the TWO defs you think most likely to have come from an
> actual dictionary. Vote publicly, BY DIRECT REPLY TO THIS MESSAGE.
>
> You may vote even if you failed to submit a definition. You may vote even
> if you've just joined Dixonary. But you may NOT vote if you now realize
> that you KNOW the real definition. In that case, if you're one of those
> who
> submitted a def, you should NOT reply to this message; instead, e-mail me
> privately and let me know you've recused yourself.
>
> The deadline for your responses: Sunday 27 May, 8 a.m. EDT; that will be
> crack-of-dawnish or earlier west of here; 1 and 2 p.m. in England and the
> Netherlands respectively; and 10 p.m. for our players in Victoria.
>
> Dodi
>
> Here's the list:
>
> 1. [ON] years.
>
> 2. a tree spirit.
>
> 3. a civil servant.
>
> 4. a funeral pyre.
>
> 5. to twist or bind in a spiral.
>
> 6. to twitch; to tickle or pinch.
>
> 7. to beat or thresh (as, grain).
>
> 8. to whine; complain; also, to grimace.
>
> 9. the angle of twist built into wire rope.
>
> 10. a flaking yeast that forms on a cow's udder.
>
> 11. a wooden device for pressing designs in butter.
>
> 12. [Obs.] to entice or persuade by soft, flattering words.
>
> 13. the edge of a glacier, where icebergs calve into the sea.
>
> 14. an obsolete measure of time, thought to be roughly four months.
>
> 15. the point at which the arms of a Y-shaped broadcast antenna diverge.
>
>

[Dodi Schultz]

On 5/26/2012 9:53 AM, Dave Cunningham wrote:
> 5 and 8 just because

Dave, I received three copies of your vote. Just curious: Why did you
direct an extra copy to Dixonary? (Which of course distributed both of
them.) Plus, still another copy to me personally?

Dodi

[Dave Cunningham]

I only hit "post reply" -- no idea at all about "extra copies" as I do not
use the mailing list option. Hitting "post reply" on this as well --
maybe Google is burping?

Dave



On Saturday, May 26, 2012 10:47:54 AM UTC-4, Dodi Schultz wrote:

> On 5/26/2012 9:53 AM, Dave Cunningham wrote:
> > 5 and 8 just because
>
> Dave, I received three copies of your vote. Just curious: Why did you
> direct an extra copy to Dixonary? (Which of course distributed both of
> them.) Plus, still another copy to me personally?
>
> Dodi
>
>
>
>
>

[Dodi Schultz]

On 5/26/2012 11:14 AM, Dave Cunningham wrote:
> I only hit "post reply" -- no idea at all about "extra copies" as I do
> not use the mailing list option. Hitting "post reply" on this as well
> -- maybe Google is burping?
> Dave

No. I got two copies of the message above, since your message to Dixonary
specifically directed a cc: to me. Google doesn't do that. (And it hasn't
happened on votes from anyone else.)

Dodi

[EnDash@aol.com]

Strictly blind guesses: numbers 10 and 11


10. a flaking yeast that forms on a cow's udder.

11. a wooden device for pressing designs in butter.



-- Dick Weltz

[Tim B]

8 and 12, please.

Best wishes,
Tim Bourne.

[PAUL QUINTON]

13 & 14 please

On 26 May 2012 21:38, Tim B <dixonary (AT) siam (DOT) co.uk> wrote:

> 8 and 12, please.
>
> Best wishes,
> Tim Bourne.
>

[scott crom]

I'll have 8 and 12, please.

Scott


On 5y to have come from an actual dictionary. Vote publicly, BY DIRECT
REPLY TO THIS MESSAGE.
>
> You may vote even if you failed to submit a definition. You may vote
> even if you've just joined Dixonary. But you may NOT vote if you now
> realize that you KNOW the real definition. In that case, if you're one
> of those who submitted a def, you should NOT reply to this message;
> instead, e-mail me privately and let me know you've recused yourself.
>
> The deadline for your responses: Sunday 27 May, 8 a.m. EDT; that will
> be crack-of-dawnish or earlier west of here; 1 and 2 p.m. in England
> and the Netherlands respectively; and 10 p.m. for our players in
> Victoria.
>
> Dodi
>
Here's the list:
1. [ON] years.
> 2. a tree spirit.

> 3. a civil servant.
>
> 4. a funeral pyre.
>
> 5. to twist or bind in a spiral.
>
> 6. to twitch; to tickle or pinch.
>
> 7. to beat or thresh (as, grain).
>
> 8. to whine; complain; also, to grimace.
>
> 9. the angle of twist built into wire rope.
>
> 10. a flaking yeast that forms on a cow's udder.
>
> 11. a wooden device for pressing designs in butter.
>
> 12. [Obs.] to entice or persuade by soft, flattering words.
>
> 13. the edge of a glacier, where icebergs calve into the sea.
>
> 14. an obsolete measure of time, thought to be roughly four months.
>
> 15. the point at which the arms of a Y-shaped broadcast antenna diverge.
>

[Tim Lodge]

Oops - I had a brain failure and looked up the word before I had
voted! I'm therefore DQ.

-- Tim L

[Millie Morgan]

5 and 7 thanks Dodi

> 5. to twist or bind in a spiral.
> 7. to beat or thresh (as, grain).


Best wishes,
Millie

[Dodi Schultz]

On 5/26/2012 6:24 PM, scott crom wrote:
> I'll have 8 and 12, please.

THAT's weird. You did what Dave did: Sent your response to Dixonary, AND a
cc to me personally. Just you and Dave, no one else. So if GooGroups did
it: Why just you two?

[Frances Wetzstein]

I'll vote for #5 and #9

Thank you. FW

[Jim Hart]

I'm going for the [brackets] - 1 and 12 please

Jim (not sharing your Memorial Day)

[Dodi Schultz]

On 5/26/2012 9:39 PM, Frances Wetzstein wrote:
> I'll vote for #5 and #9

Sorry, Frances. You get two votes, but you get to vote only once, and your
vote was received and recorded an hour earlier.

[Dodi Schultz]

On 5/26/2012 9:40 PM, Jim Hart wrote:
> I'm going for the [brackets] - 1 and 12 please
>
> Jim (not sharing your Memorial Day)
>

Your message, like Dave's first one, was sent to Dixonary with a cc to
Dixonary and a cc to me.

And was accompanied by the two others, so I received three copies altogether.

This has been a truly bizarre round, and you folks don't yet know the half
of it.

[Tony Abell]

I'll take the plausibly Germanic 1 and the popularly hot 4, please:

> 1. [ON] years.

> 4. a funeral pyre.

[Jim Hart]

Dodi, as far as I know I voted in exactly the same way as I always do - by
replying to your message from the GGroups site. But now as I write this
reply I see that there is a cc: to you so maybe if I uncheck that you won't
get the extra copy. This may be a new feature - I don't recall seeing it
before but that doesn't prove anything.

Jim

On Sunday, 27 May 2012 13:36:19 UTC+10, Dodi Schultz wrote:
>
> On 5/26/2012 9:40 PM, Jim Hart wrote:
> > I'm going for the [brackets] - 1 and 12 please
> >
> > Jim (not sharing your Memorial Day)
> >
>
> Your message, like Dave's first one, was sent to Dixonary with a cc to
> Dixonary and a cc to me.
>
> And was accompanied by the two others, so I received three copies
> altogether.
>
> This has been a truly bizarre round, and you folks don't yet know the half
> of it.
>

[Chuck]

Dodi -

The deadline is long past, I think, but I'd like to offer for your
consideration a vote for -

5. to twist or bind in a spiral.

and

12. [Obs.] to entice or persuade by soft, flattering words.

Thanks,

Chuck

[Dodi Schultz]

On 5/27/2012 12:22 PM, Chuck Emery wrote:
>
> The deadline is long past, I think, but I'd like to offer for your
> consideration a vote for -
>
> 5. to twist or bind in a spiral.
>
> and
>
> 12. [Obs.] to entice or persuade by soft, flattering words.

Yes, long past, I'm afraid. Scores have already been posted, Chuck. That
would have given Mike and Millie each another point but wouldn't have
changed the end result.