Comments on: Daphne Does Dictionaries

By: Daphne Wayne-Bough

Daphne Wayne-Bough — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 22:47:55 +0000

Oh fer fuck’s sake Mallett. Solskaer always came on in extra time and scored the winning goal, or have you forgotten? I never understood why he was always on the bench, that little lad was brilliant. ScotsMEN referred to you and the Grammar McNazi. Keep up, man, keep up.

And yes of course you’re with Mallett and the GN, Tom. Can’t breathe for the testosterone in here.

By: Tom Joad

Tom Joad — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 13:45:23 +0000

I can only express my dismay at Tony using an American spelling to get 73 points. Tsk, tsk. I fear Daffers, that, although you very kindly contributed this piece, I’m with Tony and the GN. Of course Solskaer’s a Scot – Like Ole McDonald.

By: Tony Mallett

Tony Mallett — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 13:06:57 +0000

Ole Gunnar Solskaer’s a Scotsman??!

By: Daphne Wayne-Bough

Daphne Wayne-Bough — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 10:48:07 +0000

So that makes you the Ole Gunnar Solskaer of Scrabble ? Ach you Scotsmen … To play Scrabble properly you need an old-fashioned tabletop set. Unless anyone knows an electronic version with “British” rules? I don’t think I want to play against you, you’re obviously out of my league.

By: Tony Mallett

Tony Mallett — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 13:32:42 +0000

Nice one Daffers, but I’m right with the Grammar Nazi on Hasbro’s bollocky choices.

One of my faves is ‘gu’, which, when looked up, is a version of ‘gju’. Eh?

When you look up ‘gju, it turns out to be a violin used in Shetland. Well, I never…

For the record, t’other night I bagged 73 with ‘austere’ on a triple and followed it up with a nifty 86 for ‘demeanor’. The ‘o’ was already down and temptingly close to the central triple on the top line. Of course, fifty of that score was for using up all my seven letters, but there was a satisfyingly stunned silence at the other end of t’internet.

I was getting stuffed up til that point… It was a sort of Man United extra time winner.