[Fictionary] new candidate

[E Cohen]

On 11/21/2021 9:54 AM, Jim Moskowitz wrote:
> 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!

Hunh! I'd entirely forgotten that, but, thank you Pierre!

New candidate word:

     BRUCK

If you know it, let me know by next Wednesday night -- that's U.S. 
Thanksgiving eve.


> 
> 
>> 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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