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ALBERT HAHN | 1 Jun 2011 12:13
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London: I can hear again!

Len Moir,.
reluctantly directing since Amy Byrne got hurt just before Coventry.
He prefers to play
but he's a natural for directing.
Cruel 
but he makes the trains run on time, I suggest.
No, that was Mussolini, says Linda as sort of a desperate defense of her husband.
Len's tourneys have the starting times for *each game* already
announced in the flyer.
Before each game he gives announcements 
of varying length
perfectly timed 
ending at the exact second of the set-in-stone starting time whereupon he announces
let's play scrabble
and whacks the clock of any poor bloke that's still in the loo.
And we unleash hell
Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of warfarin
and other cool scrabble words.
Dang
after 65 hours I already miss playing the game
yet
I do love London.
LOVE IT
LOVE IT
More than Tom Cruise loves Katie, I declare
as I'm trampolining on my chair in this Internet Cafe.
Another good thing about London
my hearing has dramatically improved.
I'm trying to hold out another two years
before getting a hearing aid
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Colin Nicol | 1 Jun 2011 13:46
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Re: [cgp] London: I can hear again!

Enjoyed your reports Albert. Just a couple of points. Edinburgh is indeed a proper capital. It is a country
within its own right, as are England, Wales and Northern Ireland, who all make up the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Northern Ireland. The Parliament which sits in London is the Parliament of The United
Kingdom. Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland all have their own devolved governments, with varying
degrees of power. Which actually makes England the only country in Europe without its own parliament.
Len's accent is certainly not 'North British', it is from North England - but after Len's home town there is
still a hell of a long way to go before you get to the 'top' of Britain. I would say about 160 miles of England
plus about 320 miles of Scotland. Lastly, the Union Jack is only the Union Jack when it is flying on a ship, at
other times it is simply the Union Flag. There you go Albert, hope you find  these wee pointers useful. :-)
Colin.

--- On Wed, 1/6/11, ALBERT HAHN <halbert98@...> wrote:

From: ALBERT HAHN <halbert98@...>
Subject: [cgp] London:  I can hear again!
To: "ALBERT HAHN" <halbert98@...>
Cc: world-scrabble@...,
crossword-games-pro@..., WGPO@...
Date: Wednesday, 1 June, 2011, 11:13

 
 

    

      
      Len Moir,.

reluctantly directing since Amy Byrne got hurt just before Coventry.
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glocklee | 1 Jun 2011 02:01
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W.O.R.D.S. website launch

Hello All,

On behalf of the Wollongong Order of Really Dedicated Scrabblers, I'm very pleased to announce the launch
of the club's new website.

http://members.ozemail.com.au/~flogra/

It has been a labour of love for the Publicity Officer who has otherwise been very slack in his role over the years.

Our objective is to attract more players to our club and to tournament Scrabble in general by proving that
Scrabble can be a lot of fun as well as a seriously challenging and obsessive pastime.

I am really looking forward to your feedback via the Guest Book or the email link in our page footer. We are
happy to add reasonable extra items that you might suggest or any articles you might like to contribute in
any of the sections within our website.

I hope you enjoy it.

Graeme Lock Lee
( W.O.R.D.S. Publicity Officer and Webmaster )

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ALBERT HAHN | 2 Jun 2011 11:30
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U.K. accents, ratings, mousetraps, massages

Hot off the presses, results of a U.K. poll on 17 U.K. accents.
Queen came in first but
I consider the accents of the Beatles way ahead of
the accents of Queen, whose music I'll be seeing tonight
in "We Will Rock You".  I last saw that show in 2005.
Can't wait to see it again.
I'd also vote for the Australian accent over the Beatles
or any other British accent.  
Gotta call it the way I see it.
Or hear it, I guess, which reminds me that
with hearing like mine I shouldn't be judging anything to do with sound:-)

1) Queen's English (2,141)
2) Geordie (1,996)
3) Scottish Highlands (1,361)
4) Yorkshire (1,259)
5) Welsh (1,112)
6) Northern Irish (1,085)
7) Cockney (971)
8) West Country (930)
9) Scouse (909)
10) Glaswegian (605)
11) Birmingham (507)
12) Lancastrian (458)
13) Mancunian (401)
14) Black Country (364)
15) Estuary English (245)
16) Norfolk (240)
17) Potteries (116)
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Chris Lipe | 2 Jun 2011 14:28
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Re: U.K. accents, ratings, mousetraps, massages

>  There were several Massage Angels locations in the corridors.
> I succumbed to the sales pitch of Cally and had a ten minute ten pound
> massage.
> Cally is short for Caroline and I fiercely resisted the urge to let her
> know her name's anagrams.
> Until the end of the massage when she asked me why I was
> in England and I confessed I was a scrabbler.
> Then, since the cat was out of the bag, I went ahead and let her
> know that Caroline anagrams to COLINEAR and ACROLEIN.
>
.... and CREOLIAN and LONICERA. Come on, dude. :)

My favorite English accent to listen to the Geoffrey Boycott. But that's
probably because he's usually going on about how either he or his mum could
do so much better than cricketers today (who don't even play on uncovered
pitches!)

Chris Lipe

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Cornelia Guest | 2 Jun 2011 15:16
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Re: [cgp] Re: U.K. accents, ratings, mousetraps, massages

Caroline also anagrams to CORNELIA*!

Cornelia

On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 8:28 AM, Chris Lipe <chris.lipe@...> wrote:

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>
> > There were several Massage Angels locations in the corridors.
> > I succumbed to the sales pitch of Cally and had a ten minute ten pound
> > massage.
> > Cally is short for Caroline and I fiercely resisted the urge to let her
> > know her name's anagrams.
> > Until the end of the massage when she asked me why I was
> > in England and I confessed I was a scrabbler.
> > Then, since the cat was out of the bag, I went ahead and let her
> > know that Caroline anagrams to COLINEAR and ACROLEIN.
> >
> .... and CREOLIAN and LONICERA. Come on, dude. :)
>
> My favorite English accent to listen to the Geoffrey Boycott. But that's
> probably because he's usually going on about how either he or his mum could
> do so much better than cricketers today (who don't even play on uncovered
> pitches!)
>
> Chris Lipe
>
>
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edangoor | 2 Jun 2011 17:49
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Re: [uk-scrabble] New wordlist & Lexpert


I believe it was Andy Kurnia from Singapore.

Elie

In a message dated 02/06/2011 15:32:12 GMT Daylight Time, AJSWORDS@...  
writes:

I'm also hoping someone will be able to update Lexpert's  dictionary when 
the new wordlist becomes legit cos I use it a lot still,  mainly puzzle 
compilation checking, using features/attributes not within  Zyzzyva.
Someone must have updated it for CSW in 2007 but I can't recall who that  
was.
Allan

 
In a message dated 6/2/2011 2:47:11 PM GMT Daylight Time,  
darryl.francis@... writes:

 
Does anyone know if Lexpert is still actively supported?
Specifically, will Lexpert be upgraded to handle the new wordlist  (CSW12) 
wordlist?

Apologies if I've already asked similar questions? My emails been  playing 
up.

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Cristian José Richart Piqueras | 2 Jun 2011 19:31
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The CJRP Scrabble Challenge unsolved after a year.‏


Dear World Scrabble members,

A year ago, a hard Scrabble puzzle I created (in Spanish) was published here: www.fisescrabble.org. I
named it "The CJRP Scrabble Challenge" since CJRP are my initials (I know, I am not very good at naming things).

I announced it in CGP and it appeared in the September issue of The Last Word Newsletter. Of course the puzzle
was announced in several FISE blogs and websites.

So far, no one has given a correct and complete solution. Eleven people have e-mailed me, but all of them were
miles away from the correct and complete solution. Thus, in this "anniversary" I've decided to
re-announce it, to see if more people try it. Puzzles are liked by many here in World Scrabble, and the fact
that this one is in Spanish shouldn't stop those interested since WHAT supports Spanish fully. Also I know
there are a few here who are more or less into Spanish Scrabble, who might like to give it a try. All this makes
me think that some people might try the puzzle after this announcement.

I can say that everyone that has tried the puzzle has liked it, and I truly believe it is a good (and very hard)
puzzle, so I can tell you it is worth the effort. There is no prize, but the names of the solvers will be
published (if they want to), so that's at least a little reward.

For those of you (if any) who decide to try it, here are some links you will find useful:

www.fisescrabble.org (the place where the challenge is located).

http://www.wolfberg.net/what/ (the site of WHAT, almost mandatory if you want to try the challenge)

http://www.fisescrabble.org/reglamento.htm (where you can find the Spanish Lexicon, with all of the
words allowed, in case you want to make word search programs yourself)

http://www.gtoal.com/cgi-bin/juez/ (a word checker)
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AJSWORDS | 2 Jun 2011 19:36
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Re: The CJRP Scrabble Challenge unsolved after a year.?


Where's the link to the actual puzzle, Cristian?
I have no knowledge of Spanish but I can't imagine language being a  
barrier:-)
Allan

In a message dated 6/2/2011 6:31:51 PM GMT Daylight Time,  
cejotaerrepe@... writes:

 

 
Dear World Scrabble members,

A year ago, a hard Scrabble puzzle I  created (in Spanish) was published 
here: www.fisescrabble.org. I named it "The  CJRP Scrabble Challenge" since 
CJRP are my initials (I know, I am not very  good at naming things).

I announced it in CGP and it appeared in the  September issue of The Last 
Word Newsletter. Of course the puzzle was  announced in several FISE blogs 
and websites.

So far, no one has given  a correct and complete solution. Eleven people 
have e-mailed me, but all of  them were miles away from the correct and 
complete solution. Thus, in this  "anniversary" I've decided to re-announce it, to 
see if more people try it.  Puzzles are liked by many here in World 
Scrabble, and the fact that this one  is in Spanish shouldn't stop those interested 
since WHAT supports Spanish  fully. Also I know there are a few here who 
are more or less into Spanish  Scrabble, who might like to give it a try. All 
this makes me think that some  people might try the puzzle after this
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Cristian José Richart Piqueras | 2 Jun 2011 19:51
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RE: The CJRP Scrabble Challenge unsolved after a year.?


Hello, Allan.

The link to the actual puzzle is this one: www.fisescrabble.org, as said twice in the other post. The puzzle
is in the picture file (named IMAGEN), although there is another file with additional directions.

Regards.

Cristian Richart.

To: cejotaerrepe@...; world-scrabble@...
From: AJSWORDS@...
Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2011 13:36:52 -0400
Subject: Re: [world-scrabble] The CJRP Scrabble Challenge unsolved after a year.?

Where's the link to the actual puzzle, Cristian?
I have no knowledge of Spanish but I can't imagine language being a 
barrier:-)
Allan

In a message dated 6/2/2011 6:31:51 PM GMT Daylight Time, 
cejotaerrepe@... writes:

Dear World Scrabble members,

A year ago, a hard Scrabble puzzle I created (in Spanish) was published 
here: www.fisescrabble.org. I named it "The CJRP Scrabble Challenge" since 
CJRP are my initials (I know, I am not very good at naming things).

I announced it in CGP and it appeared in the September issue of The Last
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