Richard Prior
Halfway up an Alp
Good grief, I’ve obviously been living in a non-English speaking environment for too long, , L4R and now PE, I’m totally lost ( in France, as the song goes )
Ledpolls? :-O
John
One, repeat one, Redwing on my patch this year so far (SW London). No Fieldfares, Siskin or Redpoll. Usually plenty of Redwings and a few of the others. The Rowan berries are all still there if there are any takers....
(Saying it out loud may help - took me a while)
The strange thing is that a typo on an almost obsolete* word kicks up a slightly (?) commoner word which in the context used gives the opposite sense to what you would expect... that was what threw me!
(* online dictionaries say it's almost obsolete, plus a search here on BF doesn't give a single result)
That's the second** word this week from the 1913 Webster's Dictionary; even then it was archaic...
MJB
**The first word was 'imitatress', which BLI adopted for Cryptic Honeyeater...
Only real words (archaic included) count though, so eg thithkinths etc don't. :eat:
Remember Googlewhacks? (See wikipedia if not).
Doing a search and getting a unique return on BF is something akin to, and a source of some pride or something I guess. Unfortunately imatatress has now appeared on 4 different threads in total, so no longer counts. 'Appealingly' is still only on one (this one), and the even rarer 'appea*ingly' (where * = r) on none.
Only real words (archaic included) count though, so eg thithkinths etc don't.
:eat:
I'm also in SW London, largely flatbound, but I'd normally expect to see a Redwing or two by now. Still none (and Fieldfares only turn up in really hard winters). As far as thrushes are concerned, I'm still walking on air from a magnificent Ring Ouzel photographed from my bedroom window on 24 October last year.One, repeat one, Redwing on my patch this year so far (SW London). No Fieldfares, Siskin or Redpoll. Usually plenty of Redwings and a few of the others. The Rowan berries are all still there if there are any takers....
I'd struggle to come up with the names of any footballers at all, whatever the initials :-OReminds me of a competition between mates in the pub where we had to come up with as many names of footballers as we could, whose first and last initial was the same, my contribution, Wayne Wooney.
I'd struggle to come up with the names of any footballers at all, whatever the initials
Looked them up; Gary Barlow seems to be a pop singer (something called 'take that'), the other three turn out to be ex-footballers . . . so you've not named any either 3Lineker, Gary Barlow, Pele, that Cantona bloke?
Looked them up; Gary Barlow seems to be a pop singer (something called 'take that'), the other three turn out to be ex-footballers . . . so you've not named any either
... Roy of the Rovers?
Was messing with you a tad Mind you don't know Pele's initials, or any that fit Andy's game criteria ... or do I ... ?
... Roy of the Rovers?