Saturday, February 04, 2023

Try these

  1. Who was Amelia Earhart’s co-pilot and navigator?
  2. What does 7! come to?
  3. An example of a word with a ligature (British English).
  4. What function has an umlaut in German?
  5. How many hundredweight in a ton?
  6. What’s a Gainsborough hat?
  7. Another name for chantage.

9 comments:

  1. Robbo:
    2 guessing 5 840
    3 chaffinch, but isn't a feature of typesetting, so depends on the printer?
    4 It inverts the ablaut

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  2. 2 - 5040 (7! = 7x6x5x4x3x2x1)
    5 - 20

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  3. 2) 7 × 6 × 5 × 4 × 3 × 2 × 1 = 5040
    5) 20
    7) blackmail

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  4. Factorial right, 20 right, blackmail right. Ligature example is encyclop-ae-dia. Umlaut can, for example, make an o umlaut into oe, as in schoen. First was Fred someone. Gainsborough hat? What adornment characterises it?

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  5. 6) I remember a film just after the war ("Saturday night and Sunday morning" ?) where the 'lady' of the house laments that "Someone has broken the bl**ding feather" on her wide brimmed 'Picture Hat.

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    1. JH: Feather it is. Which leaves Fred in n1.

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  6. Twisted Root
    #4. The umlaut indicates that the 'U' should be pronounced as though you have been punched very hard in the larynx.

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  7. I think I have seen the now often americanised 'mediaeval' with a similar ae?

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  8. JH: Aesop would agree. Poor old Fred Noonan though.

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