[Fictionary] SCHOTY results -- congratulations, Pierre!

[Jim Moskowitz]

A recount has changed the final tally! (Although not the winner.)

Pierre gave 1 vote to Nicolas, 2 points to Eric, and had a couple more comments:

to Ziv: Unlikely spelling. <ty> is a Hungarian letter, representing /c/, which is not an English phoneme, but <sch> is not, and the sound it usually represents in English and German is written <s> in Hungarian.
to Fran: Hmm, I was thinking SCHOles plus qwerTY, but it's Sholes.

And in light of Pierre’s prior arrangement… take it away, Eric!



> On Nov 21, 2021, at 4:11 AM, Pierre Abbat <phma at leaf.dragonflybsd.org> wrote:
> 
> On Saturday, November 20, 2021 10:24:07 PM EST Jim Moskowitz wrote:
>> The big story is how wide the margin was, with Pierre’s
>> quartz-with-nasamonite getting 10 points, double the closest competitor! A
>> related story may be just how many people believe that I would chose a
>> geology word (after all, in the previous round I did explicitly say that
>> I’m a sucker for geology definitions).
> 
> Could you check the total? I voted for the stream/marshy ground.
> 
> I was expecting someone to question "nasamonite", but he/she didn't. It's 
> real, but unidentified. It appears in this quote from Gaius Julius Solinus in 
> De mirabilibus mundi:
> Nasamonitem lapidem Nasamones dant, sanguineum universum, nigris venulis 
> adumbratum.
> Which means: The nasamonite stone the Nasamones give, blood-red overall, 
> shaded with black veins.
> The Nasamones were a North African tribe mentioned also by Pliny Senior and 
> Herodotus.
> 
> In the yeggogology round (2018-08), we agreed that Eric would run the next 
> round after I win.
> 
> Pierre
> 
> -- 
> The gostak pelled at the fostin lutt for darfs for her martle plave.
> The darfs had smibbed, the lutt was thale, and the pilter had nothing snave.
> 
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