PDA

View Full Version : [Dixonary] Round 2607: LYNGBY [Results]


Paul Keating
May 13th, 2015, 02:17 PM
Several players submitted definitions that made it clear they recognized in -by
(from Old Norse bý-r, Swedish and Danish by, ‘dwelling-place, farm,
village, township, town’) either a village (3: Cunningham; 9: Lodge), or
the proper name of a settlement (17: Bourne).

(This form may still survive in NE bye-law.)

So it was something of a surprise that the five correct guesses at the real
definition
<http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/111648?p=emailAqblwwfXZkY3Q&d=111648> (15)
didn’t overlap these perceptive submissions more closely.

Keith Hale’s butler’s knot received the most votes.

But it was closely by followed by Tim Bourne’s Iron Age pottery, which is
very close to the real definition. Lyngby is a municipality in Denmark
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kongens_Lyngby>, just north of Copenhagen,
and the word identifies Stone Age tools fashioned from reindeer horn that
were first discovered there. And there really is a place in Yorkshire
called Lynby. Unlike its Danish near-namesake, Lynby in East Yorkshire
doesn’t have a royal predicate. But that is not surprising, because it
appears to be only a campsite
<http://www.ukcampsite.co.uk/sites/details.asp?revid=1065>: so, not Lynby
Regis.

There is no reason to be puzzled that Mike Shefler’s very prompt rolling
scores post went out over an hour before this one. I send Mike an
alphabetical summary of the scores when voting closes. So he can get to
work independently on the rolling scores. But I went to eat dinner when I
was halfway through preparing this post, and Mike, by contrast, was very
fast off the mark.

1. A fruit, Eriobotrya japonica similar to an apricot, but smaller, sweeter
and having a reddish-brown color, grown in Japan and Korea.

Votes from: Bourne and Madnick

Submitted by: Shefler, who scores natural 2.

2. A butler’s knot, tied on cabinets of wine and expensive household items
and foods to detect theft.

Votes from: Abell, Barrs, Carson, Stevens, Weltz and Widdis

Submitted by: Hale, who scores natural 6.

3. In England, any of several villages [AS lyng by, a village on a long or
strong river].

Vote from: Widdis

Submitted by: Cunningham, who scores natural 1.

4. 1. Affectation of speech or manner. 2. An imaginary mountain flower.

Votes from: Abell and Madnick

Submitted by: Naylor, who scores 2 + 2, total 4.

5. Australian slang for a product that has been recalled.

No votes

Submitted by: Stevens.

6. A small geometric figure woven into fabric.

No votes

Submitted by: Carson.

7. A threat; an imminent danger.

Vote from: Stevens

Submitted by: Schultz, who scores 1 + 2, total 3.

8. South Africa. A taxicab.

Votes from: Graham, Hale and Lodge

Submitted by: Abell, who scores natural 3.

9. A fortified village.

Votes from: Cunningham and Naylor

Submitted by: Lodge, who scores 2 + 2, total 4.

10. To tell large stories.

Vote from: Shefler

Submitted by: Widdis, who scores natural 1.

11. A small monkey of Malaysia.

Vote from: Shefler

Submitted by: Madnick, who scores natural 1.

12. A rural Norwegian midsummer festival.

Votes from: Bourne, Hart and Schultz

Submitted by: Mallach, who scores 3 + 2, total 5.

13. A rope and bridle used to train horses. [OF loigne]

Vote from: Hale

Submitted by: Barrs, who scores 1 + 2, total 3.

14. A koala bear cub that has been rejected by its mother.

No votes

Submitted by: Weltz.

15. Used attrib. or ellipt. to designate a mesolithic culture of the Baltic
area or its artefacts.

Votes from: Barrs, Lodge, Mallach, Naylor and Schultz

Real definition from OED 3 (1976)

16. Nickname of the red-cheeked Dunnart (Sminthopsis virginiae), an
Indonesian marsupial.

No votes

Submitted by: Graham.

17. A type of Iron Age pottery, named for a settlement in Yorkshire where
several unbroken examples were found.

Votes from: Carson, Cunningham, Mallach and Weltz

Submitted by: Bourne, who scores natural 4.

18. A flabby benthopelagic fish of the order Pleuronectiformes, also known
as the cusk-eel, noted for having the largest ears and the smallest brain
relative to its body size of all known vertebrates.

Votes from: Graham and Hart

Submitted by: Hart, who scores natural 1.

Player

Def

Voted for

Votes

Guess

Total

Hale

2

8 & 13

6

6

Mallach

12

15 & 17

3

2

5

Bourne

17

1 & 12

4

4

Lodge

9

8 & 15

2

2

4

Naylor

4

9 & 15

2

2

4

Abell

8

2 & 4

3


3

Barrs

13

2 & 15

1

2

3

Schultz

7

12 & 15

1

2

3

Shefler

1

10 & 11

2


2

Cunningham

3

9 & 17

1


1

Hart

18

12 & 18

1


1

Madnick

11

1 & 4

1


1

Widdis

10

2 & 3

1


1

Graham

16

8 & 18

0


0

Weltz

14

2 & 17

0


0

Carson

6

2 & 17

0


0

Stevens

5

2 & 7

0


0

--
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Dixonary" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to dixonary+unsubscribe (AT) googlegroups (DOT) com.
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.

—Keith Hale—
May 13th, 2015, 02:41 PM
Well, I won't demand a recount, but my reason for a short delay may amuse
many of you. I work overnight, and haven't slept yet, and tonight is my
big debut as a screen actor. HAH! It's a ten minute film i spent maybe
six hours acting in. In the five minute version they sent to a contest, my
(evil biker drug thug) character said one short sentence. No idea how many
of the 20-some-odd lines i filmed will be in the longer cut... but my name
is one of the three on the posters, and the other two have had speaking
roles on network television. So i joke about keeping that trend going.

So, anyway it will almost certainly be after midnight Texas time before i
can post a word. (I've run out of my pre-chosen ones. D'Oh!)

Yours famously, HAH part deaux,
-Keith-
On May 13, 2015 2:17 PM, "Paul Keating" <define.lyngby (AT) boargules (DOT) com> wrote:

> Several players submitted definitions that made it clear they recognized
> in -by (from Old Norse bý-r, Swedish and Danish by, ‘dwelling-place,
> farm, village, township, town’) either a village (3: Cunningham; 9: Lodge),
> or the proper name of a settlement (17: Bourne).
>
> (This form may still survive in NE bye-law.)
>
> So it was something of a surprise that the five correct guesses at the
> real definition
> <http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/111648?p=emailAqblwwfXZkY3Q&d=111648> (15)
> didn’t overlap these perceptive submissions more closely.
>
> Keith Hale’s butler’s knot received the most votes.
>
> But it was closely by followed by Tim Bourne’s Iron Age pottery, which is
> very close to the real definition. Lyngby is a municipality in Denmark
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kongens_Lyngby>, just north of Copenhagen,
> and the word identifies Stone Age tools fashioned from reindeer horn that
> were first discovered there. And there really is a place in Yorkshire
> called Lynby. Unlike its Danish near-namesake, Lynby in East Yorkshire
> doesn’t have a royal predicate. But that is not surprising, because it
> appears to be only a campsite
> <http://www.ukcampsite.co.uk/sites/details.asp?revid=1065>: so, not Lynby
> Regis.
>
> There is no reason to be puzzled that Mike Shefler’s very prompt rolling
> scores post went out over an hour before this one. I send Mike an
> alphabetical summary of the scores when voting closes. So he can get to
> work independently on the rolling scores. But I went to eat dinner when I
> was halfway through preparing this post, and Mike, by contrast, was very
> fast off the mark.
>
> 1. A fruit, Eriobotrya japonica similar to an apricot, but smaller,
> sweeter and having a reddish-brown color, grown in Japan and Korea.
>
> Votes from: Bourne and Madnick
>
> Submitted by: Shefler, who scores natural 2.
>
> 2. A butler’s knot, tied on cabinets of wine and expensive household
> items and foods to detect theft.
>
> Votes from: Abell, Barrs, Carson, Stevens, Weltz and Widdis
>
> Submitted by: Hale, who scores natural 6.
>
> 3. In England, any of several villages [AS lyng by, a village on a long
> or strong river].
>
> Vote from: Widdis
>
> Submitted by: Cunningham, who scores natural 1.
>
> 4. 1. Affectation of speech or manner. 2. An imaginary mountain flower.
>
> Votes from: Abell and Madnick
>
> Submitted by: Naylor, who scores 2 + 2, total 4.
>
> 5. Australian slang for a product that has been recalled.
>
> No votes
>
> Submitted by: Stevens.
>
> 6. A small geometric figure woven into fabric.
>
> No votes
>
> Submitted by: Carson.
>
> 7. A threat; an imminent danger.
>
> Vote from: Stevens
>
> Submitted by: Schultz, who scores 1 + 2, total 3.
>
> 8. South Africa. A taxicab.
>
> Votes from: Graham, Hale and Lodge
>
> Submitted by: Abell, who scores natural 3.
>
> 9. A fortified village.
>
> Votes from: Cunningham and Naylor
>
> Submitted by: Lodge, who scores 2 + 2, total 4.
>
> 10. To tell large stories.
>
> Vote from: Shefler
>
> Submitted by: Widdis, who scores natural 1.
>
> 11. A small monkey of Malaysia.
>
> Vote from: Shefler
>
> Submitted by: Madnick, who scores natural 1.
>
> 12. A rural Norwegian midsummer festival.
>
> Votes from: Bourne, Hart and Schultz
>
> Submitted by: Mallach, who scores 3 + 2, total 5.
>
> 13. A rope and bridle used to train horses. [OF loigne]
>
> Vote from: Hale
>
> Submitted by: Barrs, who scores 1 + 2, total 3.
>
> 14. A koala bear cub that has been rejected by its mother.
>
> No votes
>
> Submitted by: Weltz.
>
> 15. Used attrib. or ellipt. to designate a mesolithic culture of the
> Baltic area or its artefacts.
>
> Votes from: Barrs, Lodge, Mallach, Naylor and Schultz
>
> Real definition from OED 3 (1976)
>
> 16. Nickname of the red-cheeked Dunnart (Sminthopsis virginiae), an
> Indonesian marsupial.
>
> No votes
>
> Submitted by: Graham.
>
> 17. A type of Iron Age pottery, named for a settlement in Yorkshire where
> several unbroken examples were found.
>
> Votes from: Carson, Cunningham, Mallach and Weltz
>
> Submitted by: Bourne, who scores natural 4.
>
> 18. A flabby benthopelagic fish of the order Pleuronectiformes, also known
> as the cusk-eel, noted for having the largest ears and the smallest brain
> relative to its body size of all known vertebrates.
>
> Votes from: Graham and Hart
>
> Submitted by: Hart, who scores natural 1.
>
> Player
>
> Def
>
> Voted for
>
> Votes
>
> Guess
>
> Total
>
> Hale
>
> 2
>
> 8 & 13
>
> 6
>
> 6
>
> Mallach
>
> 12
>
> 15 & 17
>
> 3
>
> 2
>
> 5
>
> Bourne
>
> 17
>
> 1 & 12
>
> 4
>
> 4
>
> Lodge
>
> 9
>
> 8 & 15
>
> 2
>
> 2
>
> 4
>
> Naylor
>
> 4
>
> 9 & 15
>
> 2
>
> 2
>
> 4
>
> Abell
>
> 8
>
> 2 & 4
>
> 3
>
>
> 3
>
> Barrs
>
> 13
>
> 2 & 15
>
> 1
>
> 2
>
> 3
>
> Schultz
>
> 7
>
> 12 & 15
>
> 1
>
> 2
>
> 3
>
> Shefler
>
> 1
>
> 10 & 11
>
> 2
>
>
> 2
>
> Cunningham
>
> 3
>
> 9 & 17
>
> 1
>
>
> 1
>
> Hart
>
> 18
>
> 12 & 18
>
> 1
>
>
> 1
>
> Madnick
>
> 11
>
> 1 & 4
>
> 1
>
>
> 1
>
> Widdis
>
> 10
>
> 2 & 3
>
> 1
>
>
> 1
>
> Graham
>
> 16
>
> 8 & 18
>
> 0
>
>
> 0
>
> Weltz
>
> 14
>
> 2 & 17
>
> 0
>
>
> 0
>
> Carson
>
> 6
>
> 2 & 17
>
> 0
>
>
> 0
>
> Stevens
>
> 5
>
> 2 & 7
>
> 0
>
>
> 0
>
> --
> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups
> "Dixonary" group.
> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an
> email to dixonary+unsubscribe (AT) googlegroups (DOT) com.
> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
>

--
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Dixonary" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to dixonary+unsubscribe (AT) googlegroups (DOT) com.
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.

Shani Naylor
May 13th, 2015, 03:02 PM
Fantastic Keith! Let us know if we can see it online.
On 14/05/2015 7:41 AM, "—Keith Hale—" <thoughtstorms (AT) gmail (DOT) .com> wrote:

> Well, I won't demand a recount, but my reason for a short delay may amuse
> many of you. I work overnight, and haven't slept yet, and tonight is my
> big debut as a screen actor. HAH! It's a ten minute film i spent maybe
> six hours acting in. In the five minute version they sent to a contest, my
> (evil biker drug thug) character said one short sentence. No idea how many
> of the 20-some-odd lines i filmed will be in the longer cut... but my name
> is one of the three on the posters, and the other two have had speaking
> roles on network television. So i joke about keeping that trend going.
>
> So, anyway it will almost certainly be after midnight Texas time before i
> can post a word. (I've run out of my pre-chosen ones. D'Oh!)
>
> Yours famously, HAH part deaux,
> -Keith-
> On May 13, 2015 2:17 PM, "Paul Keating" <define.lyngby (AT) boargules (DOT) com>
> wrote:
>
>> Several players submitted definitions that made it clear they recognized
>> in -by (from Old Norse bý-r, Swedish and Danish by, ‘dwelling-place,
>> farm, village, township, town’) either a village (3: Cunningham; 9: Lodge),
>> or the proper name of a settlement (17: Bourne).
>>
>> (This form may still survive in NE bye-law.)
>>
>> So it was something of a surprise that the five correct guesses at the
>> real definition
>> <http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/111648?p=emailAqblwwfXZkY3Q&d=111648>
>> (15) didn’t overlap these perceptive submissions more closely.
>>
>> Keith Hale’s butler’s knot received the most votes.
>>
>> But it was closely by followed by Tim Bourne’s Iron Age pottery, which is
>> very close to the real definition. Lyngby is a municipality in Denmark
>> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kongens_Lyngby>, just north of Copenhagen,
>> and the word identifies Stone Age tools fashioned from reindeer horn that
>> were first discovered there. And there really is a place in Yorkshire
>> called Lynby. Unlike its Danish near-namesake, Lynby in East Yorkshire
>> doesn’t have a royal predicate. But that is not surprising, because it
>> appears to be only a campsite
>> <http://www.ukcampsite.co.uk/sites/details.asp?revid=1065>: so, not
>> Lynby Regis.
>>
>> There is no reason to be puzzled that Mike Shefler’s very prompt rolling
>> scores post went out over an hour before this one. I send Mike an
>> alphabetical summary of the scores when voting closes. So he can get to
>> work independently on the rolling scores. But I went to eat dinner when I
>> was halfway through preparing this post, and Mike, by contrast, was very
>> fast off the mark.
>>
>> 1. A fruit, Eriobotrya japonica similar to an apricot, but smaller,
>> sweeter and having a reddish-brown color, grown in Japan and Korea.
>>
>> Votes from: Bourne and Madnick
>>
>> Submitted by: Shefler, who scores natural 2.
>>
>> 2. A butler’s knot, tied on cabinets of wine and expensive household
>> items and foods to detect theft.
>>
>> Votes from: Abell, Barrs, Carson, Stevens, Weltz and Widdis
>>
>> Submitted by: Hale, who scores natural 6.
>>
>> 3. In England, any of several villages [AS lyng by, a village on a long
>> or strong river].
>>
>> Vote from: Widdis
>>
>> Submitted by: Cunningham, who scores natural 1.
>>
>> 4. 1. Affectation of speech or manner. 2. An imaginary mountain flower.
>>
>> Votes from: Abell and Madnick
>>
>> Submitted by: Naylor, who scores 2 + 2, total 4.
>>
>> 5. Australian slang for a product that has been recalled.
>>
>> No votes
>>
>> Submitted by: Stevens.
>>
>> 6. A small geometric figure woven into fabric.
>>
>> No votes
>>
>> Submitted by: Carson.
>>
>> 7. A threat; an imminent danger.
>>
>> Vote from: Stevens
>>
>> Submitted by: Schultz, who scores 1 + 2, total 3.
>>
>> 8. South Africa. A taxicab.
>>
>> Votes from: Graham, Hale and Lodge
>>
>> Submitted by: Abell, who scores natural 3.
>>
>> 9. A fortified village.
>>
>> Votes from: Cunningham and Naylor
>>
>> Submitted by: Lodge, who scores 2 + 2, total 4.
>>
>> 10. To tell large stories.
>>
>> Vote from: Shefler
>>
>> Submitted by: Widdis, who scores natural 1.
>>
>> 11. A small monkey of Malaysia.
>>
>> Vote from: Shefler
>>
>> Submitted by: Madnick, who scores natural 1.
>>
>> 12. A rural Norwegian midsummer festival.
>>
>> Votes from: Bourne, Hart and Schultz
>>
>> Submitted by: Mallach, who scores 3 + 2, total 5.
>>
>> 13. A rope and bridle used to train horses. [OF loigne]
>>
>> Vote from: Hale
>>
>> Submitted by: Barrs, who scores 1 + 2, total 3.
>>
>> 14. A koala bear cub that has been rejected by its mother.
>>
>> No votes
>>
>> Submitted by: Weltz.
>>
>> 15. Used attrib. or ellipt. to designate a mesolithic culture of the
>> Baltic area or its artefacts.
>>
>> Votes from: Barrs, Lodge, Mallach, Naylor and Schultz
>>
>> Real definition from OED 3 (1976)
>>
>> 16. Nickname of the red-cheeked Dunnart (Sminthopsis virginiae), an
>> Indonesian marsupial.
>>
>> No votes
>>
>> Submitted by: Graham.
>>
>> 17. A type of Iron Age pottery, named for a settlement in Yorkshire where
>> several unbroken examples were found.
>>
>> Votes from: Carson, Cunningham, Mallach and Weltz
>>
>> Submitted by: Bourne, who scores natural 4.
>>
>> 18. A flabby benthopelagic fish of the order Pleuronectiformes, also
>> known as the cusk-eel, noted for having the largest ears and the smallest
>> brain relative to its body size of all known vertebrates.
>>
>> Votes from: Graham and Hart
>>
>> Submitted by: Hart, who scores natural 1.
>>
>> Player
>>
>> Def
>>
>> Voted for
>>
>> Votes
>>
>> Guess
>>
>> Total
>>
>> Hale
>>
>> 2
>>
>> 8 & 13
>>
>> 6
>>
>> 6
>>
>> Mallach
>>
>> 12
>>
>> 15 & 17
>>
>> 3
>>
>> 2
>>
>> 5
>>
>> Bourne
>>
>> 17
>>
>> 1 & 12
>>
>> 4
>>
>> 4
>>
>> Lodge
>>
>> 9
>>
>> 8 & 15
>>
>> 2
>>
>> 2
>>
>> 4
>>
>> Naylor
>>
>> 4
>>
>> 9 & 15
>>
>> 2
>>
>> 2
>>
>> 4
>>
>> Abell
>>
>> 8
>>
>> 2 & 4
>>
>> 3
>>
>>
>> 3
>>
>> Barrs
>>
>> 13
>>
>> 2 & 15
>>
>> 1
>>
>> 2
>>
>> 3
>>
>> Schultz
>>
>> 7
>>
>> 12 & 15
>>
>> 1
>>
>> 2
>>
>> 3
>>
>> Shefler
>>
>> 1
>>
>> 10 & 11
>>
>> 2
>>
>>
>> 2
>>
>> Cunningham
>>
>> 3
>>
>> 9 & 17
>>
>> 1
>>
>>
>> 1
>>
>> Hart
>>
>> 18
>>
>> 12 & 18
>>
>> 1
>>
>>
>> 1
>>
>> Madnick
>>
>> 11
>>
>> 1 & 4
>>
>> 1
>>
>>
>> 1
>>
>> Widdis
>>
>> 10
>>
>> 2 & 3
>>
>> 1
>>
>>
>> 1
>>
>> Graham
>>
>> 16
>>
>> 8 & 18
>>
>> 0
>>
>>
>> 0
>>
>> Weltz
>>
>> 14
>>
>> 2 & 17
>>
>> 0
>>
>>
>> 0
>>
>> Carson
>>
>> 6
>>
>> 2 & 17
>>
>> 0
>>
>>
>> 0
>>
>> Stevens
>>
>> 5
>>
>> 2 & 7
>>
>> 0
>>
>>
>> 0
>>
>> --
>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups
>> "Dixonary" group.
>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an
>> email to dixonary+unsubscribe (AT) googlegroups (DOT) com.
>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
>>
> --
> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups
> "Dixonary" group.
> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an
> email to dixonary+unsubscribe (AT) googlegroups (DOT) com.
> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
>

--
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Dixonary" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to dixonary+unsubscribe (AT) googlegroups (DOT) com.
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.