- Who was Amelia Earhart’s co-pilot and navigator?
- What does 7! come to?
- An example of a word with a ligature (British English).
- What function has an umlaut in German?
- How many hundredweight in a ton?
- What’s a Gainsborough hat?
- Another name for chantage.
Robbo:
ReplyDelete2 guessing 5 840
3 chaffinch, but isn't a feature of typesetting, so depends on the printer?
4 It inverts the ablaut
2 - 5040 (7! = 7x6x5x4x3x2x1)
ReplyDelete5 - 20
2) 7 × 6 × 5 × 4 × 3 × 2 × 1 = 5040
ReplyDelete5) 20
7) blackmail
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?
ReplyDelete6) 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.
ReplyDeleteJH: Feather it is. Which leaves Fred in n1.
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ReplyDelete#4. The umlaut indicates that the 'U' should be pronounced as though you have been punched very hard in the larynx.
I think I have seen the now often americanised 'mediaeval' with a similar ae?
ReplyDeleteJH: Aesop would agree. Poor old Fred Noonan though.
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