On 10/03/2010 20:05, George Kontos wrote: > > > I needed a break from working, so I played a game of Scrabble against my Pre > smartphone. It was fun, except that IT CHEATS. The Pre used all sorts of > purported "words" that I never heard of to beat me 293 - 223: > > Finis > Ichor > Ed > Cerise > Isobar > Auk > Weft > Ichor > Qi > > Okay, I did know isobar, but that's it. Of course I checked its words > against an online dictionary (especially Qi!), and they're all legit. :-( > I felt really stupid when all I could come up with were baby words like day, > plot, crop, exit, vote, lane, toy, and bra. :-D
Well, as a former meteorologist I knew isobar, and cerise is french for cherry (finis also has french derivation0|. We have auks flying around our coasts and our old woollen mills used to utilise both warp and weft. But then I have a lot of life experience at 70+ :-) -- Tony Cooke www.tonycooke.co.uk contactable at tony.j.cookeATgooglemailDOTcom Wolfgang's Third Law: It can't work.
