"Word/Phrase of the Day"

[Gibbo2286]

Notepad.

[NewcastleFalcon]

..and the next one please...
7 letter word required

? ? T E P ? ?



Struggled with this one...just got it...couldn't see it so resorted to a spreadsheet, eliminating the impossible and out the answer popped eventually. A good hour off and on!

Notepad.

Indeed, well done Gibbo, was it a decent challenge or did you see it pretty quickly Hazard Hawks said it was straightforward but just couldn't see it this time.

Neil

[CitroJim]

I'm so rubbish at things like this

[Gibbo2286]

Some I can see quickly others not so.

[NewcastleFalcon]

9 letter word required

? ? ? R L P ? ? ?

Neil

[mickthemaverick]

Can you have hyphens? - ROLY-POLY

[bobins]

My head's just spinning trying to work that one out

[mickthemaverick]

Been looking at your washing machine bobins?

[mickthemaverick]

Knew I'd seen it somewhere!!

Spoiler: show

MTMO

[NewcastleFalcon]

Yes FCF faithful look to have cracked it,

Pearlpale also fits

and here's a bonus word of the day for the FCF Faithful's vocabulary

Resistentialism is a jocular theory to describe "seemingly spiteful behaviour manifested by inanimate objects", where objects that cause problems (like lost keys or a runaway bouncy ball) are said to exhibit a high degree of malice toward humans.

Neil

[mickthemaverick]

and here's a bonus word of the day for the FCF Faithful's vocabulary

Resistentialism is a jocular theory to describe "seemingly spiteful behaviour manifested by inanimate objects", where objects that cause problems (like lost keys or a runaway bouncy ball) are said to exhibit a high degree of malice toward humans.

Neil

A real phenomenon posessed by many of the parts on our cars I'm sure!!

[CitroJim]

and here's a bonus word of the day for the FCF Faithful's vocabulary

Resistentialism is a jocular theory to describe "seemingly spiteful behaviour manifested by inanimate objects", where objects that cause problems (like lost keys or a runaway bouncy ball) are said to exhibit a high degree of malice toward humans.

Neil

A real phenomenon posessed by many of the parts on our cars I'm sure!!

Yes, that definitely applies to French cars!

[NewcastleFalcon]

ALUMINIUM

Today I have used the name of atomic number 13 a few times in posts about anti-freeze on Bargain Basement Motoring. Then I saw that element in a quote from the Nissan Micra Technical Service Manual, and it was different from the way I have been spelling it and continue to speak and spell it to this day.

I knew of course our American friends miss out the red "I" in the spoken element name, but the internet is full of their spelling as Aluminum, as is the Nissan manual, which had me questioning whether it was me making an error in my spelling.

In conclusion I wasn't....as you were! false alarm

Neil

[mickthemaverick]

Quite right Neil, it's the Americans and hence followers of Americanisms that have it wrong. To those of us who were correctly educated in the Queen's (or should that be King's now?) English it always has been Aluminium and always will be. I wonder do they have Chromum or Berylum or Einsteinum ? Of course not so it is clear who are wrong!!

[bobins]

Strangely, they do tend to join electrical things together with something that sounds like sodder. No idea what that is.