I use Litscape so when I get 12 letters or any letters needed 7 8 or 9 daily challenge to find words it seems easier then trying find in a dictionary and I know it's just the luck of the draw but thanks for the reply and have a nice day.

1. an elderly man

Your answer: bloke
bloke means "a man who is (usually) old and/or eccentric"

The correct answer was antique


Well you live and earn! ;o)

Yesterday I got this from WW:

<<crape means "small very thin pancake">>

Can the database used for this game be edited? Surely a small very thin pancake is crepe! This typo(?) got me a wee bit confused...

In several online dictionaries "crape" has the same definition as crepe. Crape is considered an archaic or alternative spelling of crepe. Some of the dictionaries had alternative, a few had archaic, others didn't make a distinction between crape & crepe.

As with cullender, instead of colander. I find the word in a number of online dictionaries, but it is not common usage, at least I've never seen it spelled like this in Oz. Nowadays I figure if it looks something like the expected word, plunge on! It's no biggie!

Could I humbly point out the following - not necessarily in opposition, but to state clearly my opinion:-


11. point_out

Your answer: express or state clearly
express or state clearly is the definition for "vocalise"

The correct answer was present and urge reasons in opposition

This is a bit unusual:

endogeny

) a geological phenomenon below the surface of the earth
) utter speech sounds
) the death rate during the first 28 days of life
) nonsensical talk or writing
) puzzling complexity
) nonsensical talk or writing

The first definition is a correct use of the term in geology.

I'm a little bit perplexed; you might even deduce I'm rather annoyed.

This is in the mini-game, after exchanging a number of useless letters

Q F E H T A V T I I D E

(me) VITIATED

(The Wiz) Attempting to Turn in a Word...

You do not have the right letters for that word! You are missing a letter V.

Please will someone confirm that there is a V in my bank of letters, that there is only one V in Vitiated, and that the Wizard really does have it in for me, and I am therefore not paranoid.

I have seen this problem a few times, and it is an easy fix. You will probably have a blank space at the end of the submitted word. Simply backspace this out, and it should accept.

Thanks ozz, just saw your note, but for some reason it must have been accepted without me doing anything. Certainly it was still standing there more than an hour later. Was that human intervention, or the God in the machine, do you think?

Marquise - A permanent canopy in front of a hotel

Really? I spent several seconds scanning the alternatives, looking for the member of the French nobility, not for the definition of Marquee.

Can an effort not be made to sift out the misspellings and misinformation in what is otherwise an excellent game?

A quick Google of "marquise canopy" brought me several hits, including images such as can be seen here:

https://www.abebooks.com/Catalog-659-Marquise-Canopy-Portico-Galvanized/22799090859/bd


The game would seem to be correct in this case.

According to an online dictionary (not the one from the game) as well as several hard-copy ones I have on hand:



In other words, not a misspelling, but an alternative spelling. You will also see marquis used the same way. You could have seen quite a few valid definitions for marquise, and may see some others if you keep playing.

okay, I stand corrected. I offer, for those who prefer the more conventional term of "motif", an alternative spelling for this one, so that they don't, like me, blankly scan the alternatives for too long:


11. motive

Your answer: a theme that is elaborated on in a piece of music

According to the Encyclopedia Britannica (and a music text on my shelf),
While I had always seen the term motif used growing up in the US, I see motive more commonly here in Australia. Of course, when I see motive, I think of the reason why a person performs a particular action. It jars every time. (But then again, I think that canopy is a marquis.)

Part of the enjoyment I get from this game is finding the slightly (or very) different ways in which the English language has evolved over the years and around the world. Aside from major and well-known differences, there are all sorts of quirky local usages. Words are wonderful, especially the way that we cannot make them stay the same forever, and cannot insist that everyone everywhere uses them in exactly the same way we do. Did you know that in England, North America and Australia there are three totally distinct types of birds called a robin? They all have a bit of red on their chest, but the resemblance stops there. So who has it wrong? Or are they all right, since the person with whom I am communicating knows that I am looking at an Australian robin on my windowsill while my twin brother observes an American one?

And a magpie in South Australia is probably (but not always) really a piping shrike, and the North American magpie has a lovely teal blue in its plumage.

Yes, I do get what you are saying, and I am probably coming from completely the wrong viewpoint, but I would love to see the English language games being used as a means for everyone to improve their wordpower in the realms of common usage. Imagine a Thai chef in Oz requesting a cullender as part of his equipment. Most people would think he can't spell the word colander.

I have been puzzling over this one, just encountered. Still not sure quite what it means. I was right, but only because nothing else was even close:

10. make over as a return

Your answer: submit

You submit your tax forms each year - it is that sense of submit that is being used. Not very elegantly.

4. hurried repair

Your answer: clap together
clap together means "make hastily and carelessly"

The correct answer was quicky

Indeed, that is one meaning of the slang term quicky. Since it is a noun, as is hurried repair, they match better than the verb with a similar meaning.

15. leg_it

Your answer: walk

Leg it means to get away rapidly IE run

Not necessarily. "Instead of taking a golf cart today, I'll "leg it" (walk) around the course," would be quite acceptable.

I've never heard "leg it" to mean run.

A criminal legs it away from the scene, presumably with more energy than the person who decides to leg it to the shops instead of driving a few blocks.

Leg it to me has always meant running away. Usually, in my much younger days, when I'd been up to something I probably shouldn't have been.