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Discussion Groups / English Usage / November 2006Guardian Quiz
The Guardian have a weekly quiz based on the idea of "What links ...?" where they give a set of people or objects and stuff and ask the reader to say what links them. Example: What links ... Achilles; Peter Pan; Physical Energy; Prince Albert? Answer - They are all sculptures in Hyde Park This week's question that may interest usageistas is: What links ... Cats, dogs, and pigs (last comma); Newman and Keble; first edited by James Murray?  SignatureJohn Dean Oxford > The Guardian have a weekly quiz based on the idea of "What links ...?" where > they give a set of people or objects and stuff and ask the reader to say [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > What links ... Cats, dogs, and pigs (last comma); Newman and Keble; first > edited by James Murray? Thaat's quoite aysy, moi durk. More interestingly (to me, anyway), I read 'usageistas' as oo-za-guy-stas at first glance; it took me a full minute to figure out what you meant. Jac > > The Guardian have a weekly quiz based on the idea of "What links ...?" where > > they give a set of people or objects and stuff and ask the reader to say [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > Thaat's quoite aysy, moi durk. Could have thrown in some Martyrs, a Parliament, and the site of Istanbul, among other things. (And how _does_ one spell that peculiar way of pronouncing "down town"?) SignatureMike. >More interestingly (to me, anyway), I read 'usageistas' as >oo-za-guy-stas at first glance; it took me a full minute to figure out >what you meant. I rather like the idea of describing myself as an oo-za-guy-sta. SignatureKaty Jennison spamtrap: remove the first two letters after the @ > The Guardian have a weekly quiz based on the idea of "What links ...?" > where they give a set of people or objects and stuff and ask the reader to > say what links them. [...] > This week's question that may interest usageistas is: > > What links ... Cats, dogs, and pigs (last comma); Newman and Keble; first > edited by James Murray? I don't suppose they award sheep for questions as easy as that one. SignatureRoland Hutchinson Will play viola da gamba for food. NB mail to my.spamtrap [at] verizon.net is heavily filtered to remove spam. If your message looks like spam I may not see it. >> The Guardian have a weekly quiz based on the idea of "What links >> ...?" where they give a set of people or objects and stuff and ask [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > I don't suppose they award sheep for questions as easy as that one. They put the sheep on wallcharts - free when you buy the paper, 3.99 UKP when you don't. SignatureJohn Dean Oxford >>> The Guardian have a weekly quiz based on the idea of "What links >>> ...?" where they give a set of people or objects and stuff and ask [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] >They put the sheep on wallcharts - free when you buy the paper, 3.99 UKP >when you don't. But didn't I see a letter from someone complaining that the sheep chart didn't include Herdwicks*? If true, it's hardly aue-compatible. (*I can't confirm this, because during the week I don't actually buy the Guardian, I read it online, so I miss most of the wallcharts.) SignatureKaty Jennison spamtrap: remove the first two letters after the @ |
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