Hi Sypher, Please this is not a challenge but could you explain to me please what your word means? It is an interesting sounding word!Thanks!! PF

Hi Sypher, Please this is not a challenge but could you explain to me please what your word means? It is an interesting sounding word!Thanks!! PF

Hi Sypher, Please this is not a challenge but could you explain to me please what your word means? It is an interesting sounding word!Thanks!! PF

AAAAAAGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH!!!!

My server was down ALL day yesterday so I missed getting to play...*explitive* *explitive* *explitive*....

According to the OED...

DEYDE - Form of Dead, Died.

Go Figure, probably some form of those words.....

this from dictionary.com

du·el (doo'el, dyoo'-)
n.

1. A prearranged, formal combat between two persons, usually fought to settle a point of honor.
2. A struggle for domination between two contending persons, groups, or ideas.

v. du·eled or du·elled, du·el·ing or du·el·ling, du·els or du·els.
v. tr.

1. To engage (another) in or as if in formal combat.
2. To oppose actively and forcefully.
v. intr.

To engage in or as if in formal combat.

Note bolded section, where it says "dueled OR duelled."

Here's the link

Never had to defend before... is this what I do?

[This message has been edited by val9001 (edited 01-25-2001).]

oh... so if ren challenges my entry and it is declared invalid, she gets my points...
if it is declared valid, do I get her points?

Something like that....but without the bonuses....(No doubling the points)

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If Everyone was INSANE....would the SANE get committed ?

YAY!
(doing my little happy dance!)

Hi Sypher...

I was wondering if you could answer my question of yesterday regarding how you're scoring the game. It was my understanding that a word is doubled if it is begun with the last letter of the preceding word. In val's case, why was her score doubled if she didn't begin her word with the last letter of mine? Shouldn't her total have been 15 instead of 30? Believe me, I'm not trying to take anything away from val, I'm just really a bit confused.

Thanks.

BL

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Am I ambivalent? Well, yes and no.

Baglady...you are sooo correct in how the scoring is done...
Thanks for keeping me on my toes...When I do the scores it is very early in the morning for me and I still have to have my wake-up coffee !!

I will check back and amend if needed !!

Thanks again !!

can we use contractions...I would think not but need to know for sure.....

I would like to challenge taxy as a word...I may be digging my own grave but hey I missed a day any way so why not try it...

I checked my oxford dictionary of current english(closest to the oed that I could find over the weekend) and its not in there...not in the scrabble site and dictionary.com litst it as a suffix...an ending to another word...not a word itself...

if its a word and stands alone as a suffix we will need to clarify the rules on what a word is and isn't...if I could have used a contraction last night my word would have been great...

is that ok for a first challenge...eh don't worry about hurting my feelings with a defense..give me all you got...

ok well I am guessing that I lost...judging from the score...aren't we supposed to be told hey you messed up its in the oed so you lose and he wins or something...not just left hanging figuring a suffix is a suffix...if there is a proper defintion, I would like to know it just to know it...yep I am whining...just feels like noone has looked at this thread or anything...am I in the wrong game????

Actually Eyeball...I never saw your challenge until now...
So I will have to check the word 'Taxy' out, but I can't do that until Monday morning. So at the moment the scores stand...if they do change you will see the diff.

As far as challenges go...no worries...it is a good challenge !!

Taxy according to the OED....is a variation on the spelling of TAXI. The word is valid but it has highlighted a grey area in this game.
Again, Well Done Sage on a great week !!

[This message has been edited by Sypher (edited 01-29-2001).]

Sypher Is rule #11 where you have to state whether the word is a Noun, Verb or Adjective count against you if you forget to do that? I didn't do that as I hadn't noticed that in your's or Sagebrushe's entries!Just asking! Thanks, PF

Rule #11 is optional if you think your entry is going to be challenged.....

I'm sorry Baglady, but YAWP??? YAWP????
I'm not challenging, but noun or verb, it sounds like the noise my dog makes just before she hacks up the sandwich wrapper she just ate out of the trash!!! YECH!!!

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Sieze the moment. Remember all those women on the Titanic who waved off the dessert cart.
Erma Bombeck

Lol Mama...that's exactly what it is! KT the Koon Kat does the same thing...lovely sound...bring on the paper towels! Double YECH!!!

Hope you're feeling better!

BL

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The less I behave like Whistler's mother the night before,
the more I look like her the morning after.
.....Tallulah Bankhead

Baglady's entry is a repeat of Chelseabelle's "reform" which I belive maks it invalid.

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"What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.".............
Dan Quayle

I challenge BagLady's entry of "REFORM". It is a duplicate of my entry that I posted earlier today.

WOW....A TIE !! Both posted at the exact same time !!

I guess it is a split of points...that's right...A Split !! Not full points to each person....Sorry Ladies !!

I don't think that's fair, ScrambleMaster. Pinhead and I did post in a dead heat. We both picked up on BagLady's entry and we both deserve FULL POINTS EACH. What's this nonsense about splitting it? We didn't challenge half an entry --we both challenged correctly at the exact same time. To be fair you don't halve the baby and deprive us of what we rightfully deserve. We each deserve our full points. This is an unusual case because our challenge posts coincided. Giving us each only half the points penalizes each of us. That is really not fair. We each posted independently.

LOL...I knew youwould have something to say about that CB. You know I love to just push the right buttons to set people off....

I must admit it is very rare to get the same post posted at the same time....Oh well, both get full points for the challenge !!