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John Barrs
February 4th, 2012, 09:24 AM
This was a neat and compact round!

Millie Morgan scored 7 and is our next dealer The real winner is Judy
Madnick with 5 points - The correct answer was #3 "guilessness" and earned
a D2 but may I ask what is odd with that spelling which alerted Dave?- is
this another English-American different spelling?

Take it away Millie

JohnnyB

1. the action or fact of occupying something; the condition of being an
occupant; actual possession, esp. of land; the taking possession of
something having no owner, as constituting a title t...
Voted for by Bourne, Graham, Hale, Lodge, Stevens, Abell, Dixon [From
Millie Morgan who voted for 9 and 14] and scores [7 + 0] = 7

2. a carnivorous African mammal related to the weasel but resembling the
skunk in appearance and in its method of defense...
Voted for by Graham, Emery, Schultz [From Dick Weltz who voted for 14 and
15] and scores [3 + 0] = 3

3. innocence, guilessness [obs. Gk _a _ without + _kakos_ bad, evil]...
Voted for by Bourne, Cunningham [From OED Online 2011 Edition which can't
vote and nets me [2 + 0] = D2

4. a dark hardwood formerly used in cabinet making and as a veneer...
Voted for by Cunningham, Emery [From Tim Lodge who voted for 1 and 13] and
scores [2 + 0] = 2

5. the state of being angered by excessive noise...
Voted for by Dixon [From Dave Cunningham who voted for 3* and 4] and scores
[1 + 2] = 3*

6. an enlargement of the spleen...
Voted for by Shefler [From Chuck Emery who voted for 2 and 4] and scores [1
+ 0] = 1

7. a rattle made from a gourd...
Voted for by nobody [From Matthew Grieco who voted for 10 and 14] and
scores [0 + 0] = 0

8. smooth; without points...
Voted for by Wetzstein, Crom [From Bill Bensburg who voted for 9 and 13]
and scores [2 + 0] = 2

9. inclination [towards]...
Voted for by Bensburg, Morgan [From Dodi Schultz who voted for 2 and 13]
and scores [2 + 0] = 2

10. thorn...
Voted for by Grieco, Abell [From Mike Shefler who voted for 6 and 19] and
scores [2 + 0] = 2

11. sharply focused...
Voted for by nobody [From Frances Wetzstein who voted for 8 and 17] and
scores [0 + 0] = 0

12. a flat-topped hill...
Voted for by nobody [From Tony Abell who voted for 1 and 10] and scores [0
+ 0] = 0

13. [obs] an exception...
Voted for by Bensburg, Lodge, Widdis, Schultz [From Chris Carson who voted
for 18 and 19] and scores [4 + 0] = 4

14. brightness; lustrousness...
Voted for by Weltz, Morgan, Grieco, Savage, Crom [From Judy Madnick who
voted for 18 and 19] and scores [5 + 0] = 5

15. lacking essential resources...
Voted for by Weltz, Widdis [From Guerri Stevens who voted for 1 and 16] and
scores [2 + 0] = 2

16. having an understanding of accounting (cf. numeracy)...
Voted for by Stevens, Savage [From Tim Bourne who voted for 1 and 3*] and
scores [2 + 2] = 4*

17. argument based on false information, superstition or prejudice...
Voted for by Wetzstein [From Steve Dixon who voted for 1 and 5] and scores
[1 + 0] = 1

18. wide-ranging light-brown frog of moist North American woodlands
especially spruce...
Voted for by Carson, Madnick, Hale [From Dan Widdis who voted for 13 and
15] and scores [3 + 0] = 3

19. a rash resulting from an allergy to the bark of the whistling thorn
(acacia) tree...
Voted for by Carson, Shefler, Madnick [From Steve Graham who voted for 1
and 2] and scores [3 + 0] = 3

20. support, especially of infirm and elderly persons or structures [from
Nahuatl (Aztec) _aca(tl)_ cane (plant)]...
Voted for by nobody [From Keith Hale who voted for 1 and 18] and scores [0
+ 0] = 0

##. -- No Def Submitted --...
[From Toni Savage who voted for 14 and 16] and scores [0 + 0] = 0

##. -- No Def Submitted --...
[From Scott Crom who voted for 8 and 14] and scores [0 + 0] = 0

Dodi Schultz
February 4th, 2012, 11:15 AM
On 2/4/2012 10:24 AM, John Barrs wrote:

> The correct answer was #3 "guilessness" and earned a D2 but may I
> ask what is odd with that spelling which alerted Dave? Is this
> another English-American different spelling?

Actually, the spelling suggested to ME that it was NOT the dictionary
definition, since that spelling is a MISspelling. The correct American AND
British (our language is also English) spelling, confirmed by my copy of
the Concise OED, is _guilelessness_.

—Dodi

Paul Keating
February 4th, 2012, 11:36 AM
John

It is odd. Should be guilelessness.

And this isn’t a BrE/AmE thing. It’s just wrong. The misspelling does get quite a few Google hits, though, including a vocabulary builder site for 7th graders, FunnelBrain <chortle>.


From: John Barrs
The correct answer was #3 "guilessness" and earned a D2 but may I ask what is odd with that spelling which alerted Dave?- is this another English-American different spelling?

Tim B
February 4th, 2012, 12:09 PM
,
> The correct answer was #3 "guilessness" and earned
> a D2 but may I ask what is odd with that spelling which alerted Dave?- is
> this another English-American different spelling?
>
I didn't think anything of it at the time, but now I look again, I'm surprised it isn't
guilelessness. Guilessness seems to mean being without gui, whatever that is!

Best wishes,
Tim B.

Judy Madnick
February 4th, 2012, 12:51 PM
Whew! We're away for a long weekend, so second place is just fine, thank you.

Sent from my iPod

On Feb 4, 2012, at 10:24 AM, John Barrs <johnnybarrs (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote:

> This was a neat and compact round!
>
> Millie Morgan scored 7 and is our next dealer The real winner is Judy Madnick with 5 points - The correct answer was #3 "guilessness" and earned a D2 but may I ask what is odd with that spelling which alerted Dave?- is this another English-American different spelling?
>
> Take it away Millie
>
> JohnnyB
>
>

John Barrs
February 4th, 2012, 02:53 PM
Folks all

I apologise - I do not know how it happened because I thought I pasted from
OED on-line and yet I managed to mis-spell it - sometimes one (well me
anyway) cannot see a problem when it is one of your own making and since
Dave first wrote that I have been trying to see what was wrong - it is
obvious now that I have seen it

JohnnyB

On 4 February 2012 17:15, Dodi Schultz <DodiSchultz (AT) nasw (DOT) org> wrote:

> On 2/4/2012 10:24 AM, John Barrs wrote:
>
> The correct answer was #3 "guilessness" and earned a D2 but may I
>> ask what is odd with that spelling which alerted Dave? Is this
>> another English-American different spelling?
>>
>
> Actually, the spelling suggested to ME that it was NOT the dictionary
> definition, since that spelling is a MISspelling. The correct American AND
> British (our language is also English) spelling, confirmed by my copy of
> the Concise OED, is _guilelessness_.
>
> —Dodi
>
>

Guerri Stevens
February 4th, 2012, 03:01 PM
GUI is graphical user interface. I am one who could do without it <g>.

Guerri

Tim B wrote:
> ,
>> The correct answer was #3 "guilessness" and earned
>> a D2 but may I ask what is odd with that spelling which alerted Dave?- is
>> this another English-American different spelling?
>>
> I didn't think anything of it at the time, but now I look again, I'm
> surprised it isn't guilelessness. Guilessness seems to mean being
> without gui, whatever that is!
>
> Best wishes,
> Tim B.
>

Tim B
February 4th, 2012, 03:59 PM
,
> GUI is graphical user interface. I am one who could do without it<g>.

A nice thought, Guerri!

Best wishes,
Tim B.

Chuck
February 4th, 2012, 04:56 PM
Perhaps you see the err in Gui?

> GUI is graphical user interface. I am one who could do without it <g>.
>
> Guerri
>
> Tim B wrote:
>> ,
>>> The correct answer was #3 "guilessness" and earned
>>> a D2 but may I ask what is odd with that spelling which alerted
>>> Dave?- is
>>> this another English-American different spelling?
>>>
>> I didn't think anything of it at the time, but now I look again, I'm
>> surprised it isn't guilelessness. Guilessness seems to mean being
>> without gui, whatever that is!
>>
>> Best wishes,
>> Tim B.
>>
>
>

Guerri Stevens
February 5th, 2012, 05:45 AM
Good one!

Guerri

Chuck wrote:
>
> Perhaps you see the err in Gui?