Vegas & The Aftermath - Diary

[RED-DOG]

If the masses don't like con-crete can you be dis-crete, please?

Or should that be discreet?

Tal can now revisit an argument from 2007. Which tikay lost, but refused to admit he lost

Won't he be confused by all the other arguments tikay refuses to admit that he's lost?

[tikay]

If the masses don't like con-crete can you be dis-crete, please?

Or should that be discreet?

Tal can now revisit an argument from 2007. Which tikay lost, but refused to admit he lost

The word is "discrete".

I nominate 5pur2 bloke to verify. Genuinely educated, the male equivelant to Jen Mason.

[tikay]

Must apologise for the waffle today, a sort of posh version of Tom's Bollox & Afterstuff.

Am working all day, until 1am, in a TV Studio overseeing - supervising - the filming of a cash game being recorded for Sky Sports.

Don't much enjoy supervising, which effectively means sitting here for 12 hours at a stretch for three days straight. Would far rather be doing something constructive.

Can't even catch up on my backlog of stories I want to write, or get up to date on Fred, as I am not on my lappie, can only use the ippy in here.

Normal service will be resumed soonest.

[Rod Paradise]

Rough and Enough? Think that might be just the one entry.

Hiccough (an accepted spelling although I'm not convinced it is the right way to spell it!)

Lough (one for your Scottish Irish followers, as it is an alternative spelling of Loch)

Hough (pronounced Hock)

Through

There are more, I think. Place names are likely to yield some odd ones, as your Loughton has two neighbouring boroughs (in Milton Keynes, Google maps fans).

First to the buzzer....GO!

Ahh, "Lough" as an alternative in Scotland Ireland for Loch. Very good.

Does the OED include Scottish stuff, or is there an OSD, albeit very small?

FYPs

And hough is pronounced the same as loch (or lough) up here.

[RED-DOG]

Normal service will be resumed soonest.

[Tal]

If the masses don't like con-crete can you be dis-crete, please?

Or should that be discreet?

Tal can now revisit an argument from 2007. Which tikay lost, but refused to admit he lost

The word is "discrete".

I nominate 5pur2 bloke to verify. Genuinely educated, the male equivelant to Jen Mason.

The male Jen Mason? I blush, sir.

Don't know the 2007 argument or who said what, so, Lions' den ahoy...

To be discreet is to keep things quiet or to use your judgment in not declaring something.

To be discrete is to be separate from one or more things.

I can only assume a man as wise and beautiful as Tikay came to this conclusion...

[tikay]

If the masses don't like con-crete can you be dis-crete, please?

Or should that be discreet?

Tal can now revisit an argument from 2007. Which tikay lost, but refused to admit he lost

The word is "discrete".

I nominate 5pur2 bloke to verify. Genuinely educated, the male equivelant to Jen Mason.

The male Jen Mason? I blush, sir.

Don't know the 2007 argument or who said what, so, Lions' den ahoy...

To be discreet is to keep things quiet or to use your judgment in not declaring something.

To be discrete is to be separate from one or more things.

I can only assume a man as wise and beautiful as Tikay came to this conclusion...

I could not have put it better myself.

You make wise assumptions.

[Tal]

OK, then. What have I walked into?

[Geo the Sarge]

Rough and Enough? Think that might be just the one entry.

Hiccough (an accepted spelling although I'm not convinced it is the right way to spell it!)

Lough (one for your Scottish Irish followers, as it is an alternative spelling of Loch)

Hough (pronounced Hock)

Through

There are more, I think. Place names are likely to yield some odd ones, as your Loughton has two neighbouring boroughs (in Milton Keynes, Google maps fans).

First to the buzzer....GO!

Ahh, "Lough" as an alternative in Scotland Ireland for Loch. Very good.

Does the OED include Scottish stuff, or is there an OSD, albeit very small?

FYPs

And hough is pronounced the same as loch (or lough) up here.

As Rod says, there are no Loughs in Scotland, predominantly the Irish equivalent of Loch. There are a few Loughs in the North of England though.

Geo

[tikay]

Just discovered another word which was completely new to me, had to google it.

google Images was a shocker.

ladygarden

[kinboshi]

Is Loughborough the only word that has ough in it twice, but pronounced differently each time?  Probably, lots of others.

[bobAlike]

Just discovered another word which was completely new to me, had to google it.

google Images was a shocker.

ladygarden

Still, not as bad as looking for broken banjo strings.

[Tal]

There is also Broughton by Milton Keynes. A third different pronunciation.

(Like thought)

[Tal]

Banjo strings had passed me by.

I am now duly educated.

One of the top image results was, curiously, this:

[tikay]

Banjo strings was a new one on me, too.

You boys must keep shocking company.