"Word/Phrase of the Day"

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Just a quick guess ANYTIME
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NewcastleFalcon wrote: 19 Oct 2023, 08:41 Another Word Game from Haggard Hawks/Radio Newcastle

Looking for a seven letter word...only one fits.
A N ? ? ? M E
Hint if you think you have got it in seconds...you haven't. Check the dictionary spelling of what you think it is and you will find that it is wrong. I very much made that mistake.
Gibbo2286 wrote: 19 Oct 2023, 09:27 Just a quick guess ANYTIME
When it came on the radio got it in seconds...but when the reveal came I found what I thought was the correct answer wasn't and indeed your ANYTIME was the correct answer Gibbo. Well done. :-D

Yes I thought straight away ANENOME, downed tools and thought it was far too easy...but that's not how it is spelt.

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New word game Thursday's Haggard Hawks/Radio Newcastle
What is the seven letter word which comes next in this sequence of 7-letter words :?:

outside, unaided, spiders, hideous, ???????
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When I were a lad the teacher would have rapped knuckles for this: ..."but that's not how it is spelt." :-D , spelt is a grain, a species of wheat, the word you need is spelled, not that it matters in the modern world.
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Next letter in your latest poser is Ideally I think.
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Gibbo2286 wrote: 20 Oct 2023, 10:40 Next letter in your latest poser is Ideally I think.
It is indeed Gibbo, Well Done :-D

I do 50% disagree on the use of spelt though and will continue to use it if the need arises. Spelt is the more common past participle used in UK English although both are acceptable.

Plenty column inches on the net but in another use of a past participle in the present tense, It is finished. Others may wish to pedantically debate the point not me! :-D

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^^ Good plan I'd say and on that basis, I always do ;)
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9 letter word required

V I ? ? ? ? ? N T

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That is a tricky one from my viewpoint, but I'll give it a go!! :-D
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Well done Mick. It was a tricky one, I didn’t get viewpoint but did get the alternative answer with virescent yes word I had never heard of but it is a word :)

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Does that mean glowing green by any chance? :)
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That sort of thing, turning green Thomas Hardy used it once but not many people since :)

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..and the next one please...


7 letter word required

? ? T E P ? ?


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NewcastleFalcon wrote: 02 Nov 2023, 13:37 ..and the next one please...
7 letter word required

? ? T E P ? ?


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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!

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