T4tomo
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Light-hearted banter
I agree with you on snafu though, that is really an acronym masquerading as a word, but 'mericans are in charge of Wordle.
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Light-hearted banter
I agree with you on snafu though, that is really an acronym masquerading as a word, but 'mericans are in charge of Wordle.
Dogtrousers
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I don't remember snafu. So I looked it up. If we can keep arguing for another day then it will be exactly a year since it came up.
T4tomo
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I remember it, it ended my run I think!
T4tomo
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Mais non...
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[ https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/voila ]
et voilà!
Ooh là là
But yeah, I think we can end the conversation or else it will go on for ever.
Your dictionary or mine:
If you can't read that, it goes voided, voile, volotia. I would respectfully suggest that if you asked 100 people what language voila was in, not a single one of them would say English.
What I completely agree with you is that we are done with this one. And I won't be bothering with any comments in future.
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Dogtrousers
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Looks like everyone who posted got SNAFU OK. So I don't know what the whining was about.
T4tomo
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Dogtrousers
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Mine of course. Yours looks like a fax from the 1980s. I think that the OED is generally considered to be the most respected reference in cases like this, and it has voila. https://www.oed.com/search/dictionary/?scope=Entries&q=voila
Its definition ends rather fittingly for this discussion: That is all, there is nothing more to do or say.
(It has snafu and fubar too so yar boo)
Incidentally I read a really interesting book last year called The Surgeon of Crowthorne about William Chester Minor. He was a 19th century American doctor, who became mentally unstable and committed a murder in London. While in Broadmoor he made significant contributions to the OED. He also chopped off part of his own anatomy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Chester_Minor
No, that was a scan from my Collins dictionary.
Dogtrousers
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To be fair my 2 volume shorter OED that I bought in the early 80s also doesn't have voila. But I'll stick with the more recent references that keep up with current usage.
When I lived in Devon as a young lad we used to regularly see a chap who camped permanently in a clearing alongside a road outside Exeter, (from memory). He was always immaculately turned out, with a neat camp around his tent. I don't know his name, but he was famous as a crossword compiler for The Times. He lived as he did because of claustraphobia, which he had to such an extent that when he was taken to hospital in old age he was actually cared for in a bed outside on a balcony.
Dogtrousers
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I managed to get it to accept ARSEY as a guess today. I thought it would make my life difficult and refuse it with an error message so I warned it: "Don't you get arsey with me". And it didn't.
