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12:00 am

flippy flip flip

12:04 am

flippity floppity floo

12:05 am

st7

12:06 am

x2

12:07 am

x3

12:08 am

x4

12:10 am

li 8/9

12:10 am

la7

12:12 am

at 7

12:14 am

li 7

12:16 am

st8

Clues are up

12:23 am

Good Evening. IDK how you guys do it; at this time of night I rarely find words longer than 6 or 7 letters long! And *I* was the night owl for so many years; but now it's often all I can do here some evenings is barely find enough 4 letter words for NBT!

12:24 am

I'm with you Nef. But on some grids I get big words right off :D

12:24 am

Thank you lickety!

12:27 am

nbt, nbs

12:27 am

that why I'm crashing now, nef

12:27 am

good night everyone

12:28 am

See ya' nan

12:37 am

well we're not all in the same time zone either

12:38 am

5:37 pm here in east Oz

12:38 am

8.38am in South Africa

12:41 am

True; I forget that you aren't all dozing off (like I am now). Good Night; & Happy Babbling Everyone! :-)

12:41 am

Only 4.41 a couple of hundred km north of Diz.

12:42 am

yep Qld doesn't have DLS

12:42 am

Wish we did.

12:43 am

I wish we had it all year round

12:44 am

They tried that for a while in the UK - but it "faded the curtains" and the cows couldn't cope! 😂

12:44 am

slatey

12:44 am

oh sh!t sorry

12:45 am

phantom: talent

12:49 am

not seeing the li7 you called, Rain

12:50 am

i believe it's an alternate spelling

12:51 am

ahh ok thanks :)

12:51 am

funny that plural works on the 8 but not the 7

12:51 am

my pleasure!

12:53 am

I thought the exact same thing about the plural

12:54 am

90%

12:54 am

that A on the right is the hardest square. unless i'm being really thick.

12:55 am

yeah i was being mildly thick

12:55 am

I only have 6 of the 9

12:55 am

i have 8 of them now

12:56 am

st7 x 5

1:07 am

sa7

1:11 am

phantom: atlatl

1:11 am

(you know you've been babbling too long when...)

1:12 am

that just leaves one 8 uncalled

1:13 am

As Abolished

1:14 am

12 left

1:15 am

te8

1:16 am

yay for jessmom!!!

1:17 am

ll 5

1:17 am

yay for dizgrannie!!!

1:20 am

this is very helpful

1:20 am

BBL time for tea

1:55 am

good morning all

2:01 am

only ever heard in babble: phantom: atlatl

2:06 am

phantom: stiletto

2:06 am

Hey there, sprite.

2:06 am

hiya peach! *hug* How are you doing today?

2:07 am

good morning dear sprite. the heat continues here. i'm watching the news. the bush fires have merged into one. homes are being lost, people are being moved away to safety. please pray for our poor land as it is consumed by fire.

2:07 am

OK, thanks, sprite. Just plodding along.

2:07 am

heyya peach.

2:07 am

*blessings over your plodding*

2:07 am

Hi there, rose. You OK?

2:07 am

Thanks much, dear sprite.

2:08 am

good evening dear rose *hugssss* So sorry to hear. Are you and Don safe? And your kids?

2:08 am

i'm okay honey. but it;s heart breaking to watch places we have visited and loved utterly wiped out.

2:09 am

at the moment all our family are safe. the closest the fire is to us is about 50 km.

2:10 am

I'm so sorry this is happeningl. Praying. Hugs

2:12 am

50 km is too close for comfort, the way things are going. I can understand how heartbreaking this must be. It is devastating.

2:14 am

we have a couple of hills between us, and the fire-break areas have been well-maintained.

2:19 am

that's a good thing. Praying for you and your country, honey

2:19 am

unfortunately we have national forest at the end of our street. we just need ONE idiot to throw a lit cigarette butt out of their car window.... we do have several ways that the firefighters can warn us. and we are checking their web site regularly.

2:22 am

scary

2:22 am

now spritey. how are you doing my sweetie?

2:23 am

and peach? is the pollen count going down? are you feeling a little better?

2:30 am

I am doing great. Went to Noud's workshop yesterday, a day of training for the assistents. It was marvelous. And I managed okay, in the wheelchair, and could do most things for myself and the other assistents were so sweet and helpful. Pain in the end was bad, had to take an oxycodone but regretted it. I do not sleep well on that stuff.

2:32 am

Good for you, sprite.

2:32 am

pleased that your workshop went so well and that you were able to cope. but it does indicate just how important it is to keep that ankle elevated. ugh that the oxycodone has that effect on you.

2:35 am

i suspect that you, like me, are going to feel any swelling, however slight, affecting that ankle.

2:35 am

my ankle has been elevated all day. Just tiredness that made it hurt so bad, I think. And yeah, the oxy is not going down well. I get trippy, skate over the tops of sleep, so to speak, and never get under. Do not remember ever feeling that way before. Might be that the crazy amount of ketamine and oxycodone they gave me in the ambulance and hospital until the ankle was straightened that triggered a kind of hypersensitivity to the stuff.

2:36 am

yeah, probably. But while awake last night, I could slightly flex and stretch my feet. Both of them! So things are healing well.

2:38 am

yayyy used the -ncy ending at last

2:39 am

lollll... and i am fairly certain that is the only word that uses the c tile

2:39 am

*grins* Quite likely. Kind of a dead corner there, even though it looks so promising.

2:40 am

oh man, it is raining... so much rain! Wish I could send it your way, honey, it would end those fires in no time

2:40 am

and the x tile is only used twice.

2:42 am

i was gonna say, please go and run about in it for me.... then i remembered.... water and set plaster don't go together well...

2:44 am

mmmmm better not, lol.

2:46 am

the other assitants said I was doing too much for myself and to ask more help. And there I was, feeling so happy I could navigate it all on my own. Sometimes it is hard to explain to people why even the sweetest care does not make up for being self-sufficient.

2:47 am

*sigh* and there we have it again. honey, it is a hard lesson to le5 to be humble enough to accept an offer to help. by accepting that offer you are blessing the person who has offered.

2:48 am

it wa so hard for me. like you, to5ly independent, then suddenly..stuck in a wheelchair and needing help to negotiate even a single step up or down.

2:48 am

yeah... I know... and at the same time, I think that it is important to do for yourself the things you still can do. And not be that dependant, helpless person who enjoys being waited on.

2:50 am

when you are at home, to5ly yes. when out and about accept some help. explain you want to try, and will ask for help if you cannot do.

2:50 am

but I hear you. I will try to accept offers when they come... and for stairs and steps I need all the help I can get. But if I can do things for myself, I will do them by myself when possible.

2:50 am

that is a good one. Will do.

2:55 am

what I hate most (did not happen yesterday, but it did in the hospital and shops) is when people start talking over your head to the person pushing your wheelchair. "Does she have all the recipes?" I went "HEY! I am right here. My leg is broken, not my mind or tongue."

2:55 am

oh, btw, thank-you for that very informative email honey.

2:56 am

yvw! And feel free to ask me anything about it, you and Don both.

2:57 am

oh dear.... i had that problem with mother mac who still had every single one of her marbles. docs, nurses, whoever, would talk to us rather than her. it would drive me almost into a towering rage.

2:58 am

many was the time i had to talk through gritted teeth in an effort to stop myself from shouting.

2:58 am

it is totally rude. Lol, the lady in the pharmacy actually blushed a fiery red and said sorry. I think she will not make the same mistake twice.

3:00 am

as so she should have. as you say, so rude.

3:00 am

I do have a little more patience for people outside care institutions. But care personnel? I am pretty sure they are trained to never do this.

3:03 am

nope, as far as i remember, no specific training for dealing with the person in the chair. it is actually something i le5ed as i went along.

3:03 am

also, it is a matter of respect and manners.

3:04 am

well it should be part of their training then. For crying out loud. Okay, I actually think each and every one of them should spend a week in a wheelchair and a week in a hospital bed just to learn what it is like.

3:05 am

so agree. i think that is why i could second guess what people under my care needed. i have had so many procedures, surgeries etc that i can EMpathise with what they are experiencing.

3:07 am

Hugs to you Sprite and Rose!

3:07 am

exactly. And that is what is needed. I just read an interesting snippet about 'the near enemy'. A psychological phrase used to describe two things that look the same but are opposites. In this case, pity and compassion. Compassion is when there is empathy, and you feel the other person is equal to you. Pity is when there is no empathy and you feel superior to them.

3:07 am

{{{{{{kam}}}}}}my dear. how lovely to see you.

3:08 am

*hugs Kam* Hello dear one, glad to see you, how are you and Michael doing? Is Dad settling in?

3:09 am

Good to see both of you! Dad answered his phone today, but wasn't making much sense. Guess he didn't have his hearing aid in...not sure, but at least he and Michael talked

3:09 am

oh dear.... little steps honey. at le5 he answered the phone.

3:10 am

glad he answered the phone. It will take time for things to settle, I think. Good thoughts and prayers to all of you there.

3:11 am

Thanks for the email Sprite. I'll reply tomorrow - just popped in between TV and bedtime. Am glad I caught both of you here!

3:11 am

no hurry, Kam, whenever is good for you will be good for me :)

3:13 am

I'm just hoping Dad couldn't hear...because he didn't remember his other grands bringing his dog to visit him. I'm afraid his time may be running out

3:13 am

rofloll... we are watching a program on the british royalty and how they relate to australia. they just interviewed a lady on the street. do either of you, know about Dame Edna Everage, a character played by an actor Barry Humphries. if you don't please google. this lady was actually wearing a pair of glasses exactly like those worn by that character.

3:14 am

sweetie, I know dame edna and I LOVE her. LOL @ the glasses, unbelievable that people wear stuff like that IRL

3:14 am

i am still roaring with laughter here.

3:14 am

What's the name of the show? Sounds fun!

3:15 am

The Crown And Us: The Story Of The Royals In Australia

3:16 am

I'll have to find it

3:19 am

Rose, I'm so sorry you're living through fires - it's so awful. Now we're getting lots of rain...and by summer here, we'll have more fires. I hope California doesn't have any more severe fires this year, the past few years have been horrid. I hope you stay safe.

3:19 am

there are so many, for me, emotional and moving clips. like when Sir Robert Menzies made a speech. and in it he said" i did but see her passing by, i now know that i will love her until the day i die"

3:21 am

thanx kam. when the fires were blazing over there i was praying so hard, and weeping for all that was lost.

3:26 am

it is devastation on a scale unknown to us here.

3:27 am

finally found the 9

3:27 am

do you think we get 'softer' as we get older. these days i find i weep at so many things. is it because i have allowed God so much more into my heart and life?

3:28 am

yes honey, it is. People either go harder while aging, closing themselves off of the hurt and pain of living, or they go 'softer', allowing the pain to touch them.

3:28 am

I don't think so, Rose, we just gain experience. Living through stuff makes us stronger

3:29 am

loll... now i respect both of your opinions... would you please agree some where along the line?

3:29 am

Hmmm. I cry more, I feel more, but I feel I can deal with more too.

3:29 am

*giggles*

3:31 am

yes, we get stronger all the time. But as long as we keep our hearts open, we can be more easily touched and moved by things. I think that is a beautiful way of growing older. Much better than getting cynical and closing ourselves off from the pain of others.

3:32 am

Agreed, Sprite. I was typing pretty much the same sentiment.

3:32 am

ahhhh, a sort of agreement. i can handle that.

3:32 am

*grins* The things we do to make our rose happy... *joking*

3:32 am

it is after 8:30pm here..... don has gone to get dinner ready.

3:33 am

lovely. Tell him to bring me some too. I can manage a hot meal for breakfast.

3:33 am

I am so very tired, I have to go get ready for bed - it's 1:33AM here...

3:33 am

and so you should... i need a bit of a breeze on this pedestal.

3:33 am

aw sweetie, go sleep. *hugs* and lots of love. Pretty dreams too.

3:34 am

sweet dreams dearest kam. xoxox

3:34 am

Hugs to both of you! <3

3:36 am

okay... time to go. hugs and blessings dear sprite. take it easy after your very busy yesterday.

3:37 am

darling, enjoy your meal and have a terrific evening, a peaceful night and a blessed day tomorrow. Luvsya lots. *hugs*

3:38 am

and I will. On the bed with the legs up, and Barbara and Liesbeth are coming to cook dinner for us. So sweet. So Rob will have today off as well, except for the things I really cannot do for myself.

3:49 am

finally found the compound 8

3:49 am

fireflies. To you all, a blessed day and a peaceful night.

Hi all. Anyone have stats for the i (eye) in the top row, and also the lone L in the fourth row, fourth column please?

4:02 am

gm, Matty, il4/4

4:02 am

il 4/4 il5/10

4:02 am

lota

Thank you - looking now, both. Morning, Ruby and Dip!

4:03 am

sorry!

Found them both - cheers!

4:03 am

hello!

Aaah - a Liverpool (ish) gal :)

Welcome!

4:05 am

Yup - that's me! Fingers crossed!

Hey, you think you have it bad - if I had to support a football team, it would be Brentford

4:08 am

If we win the league (big if!) I may change my icon to Klop!

Pre dentistry or post?

4:14 am

FW

4:15 am

la 4/4 - just got it

Oooh - looking

5:10 am

Morning all....any clues for the 9 please?

li8/40 + plural - sounds like opposite of figurative

5:37 am

thanks juniper...

np, was looking based on a half-remembered clue from earlier in the chog. Just having my second go at the grid.

5:39 am

Oh I haven't found it yet...I was just saying thanx...lol

According to enable it's actually something to do with the sea shore, if that helps, but it looks more like an alternative spelling of a word meaning 'actually, factually'.

5:40 am

li+t+t+what you jeed to pass to get phd

5:41 am

strip of land next to ocean

lita

oops, sorry!

not a word, but still.

5:45 am

Found it! Thanks for the clues

Can anyone please clue me the AL5/14 please? Just cannot find it at all.

Small passage or path between buildings

Of course. Got it now. Thanks.

6:01 am

Clue please for st8 ?

6:05 am

st7/8....s + camp dwelling + either .. and plural

6:06 am

Thanks!

6:07 am

Thanks Molly..

6:07 am

By definition, it is a person with a very loud voice. I used to work with one of those. : D

7:41 am

good morning all. help with L in 4th column and te8 pls

7:43 am

la4/4

7:43 am

ty Biltong

7:43 am

yw :)

7:44 am

Don't have te8 yet

7:45 am

ok

7:46 am

te8...it was a te8 sign that he was lying

7:47 am

tyty Molly

7:47 am

Or Edgar Allen Poe's "The Te8 Heart"

7:47 am

Sorry, Allan, I always spell that wrong

7:49 am

ty, Molly

7:52 am

good morning! can I have just the stats for the 9? no clue yet

li 9/54

7:55 am

got 'em! thanks

just finished, any clues needed?

8:07 am

Congrats, luv! Just starting.

ty Bea, it's a fun grid

8:09 am

at7?

8:12 am

at+ripped

8:12 am

That is the 6

8:13 am

thanks Bzzn got 'em

8:15 am

yw

8:19 am

Interesting definition for that word

8:26 am

I want aorta but it's not here.

8:42 am

This grid is heartless

8:46 am

it's in a new vein

8:47 am

my name is in this grid! la5/5 (it's not a word though, heh)

8:52 am

st5 is in, so at least you can get heart repair

8:56 am

I thought I was being festive making yellow, green and purple mini pancakes for Mardi Gras. I forgot that pancakes turn brown, no matter what color the batter is. : (

8:58 am

firewords!

8:59 am

thanks lickety and Bzzn and all cluers. sa5/10 like a hair place with a different final cons was my last

9:14 am

That is a hair place where people laugh at you, digitally

9:21 am

ty dan2 and congrats! phantom: satellite

9:21 am

yeah.. i was orbiting around that one too aloy

9:22 am

I kept trying satiate

9:23 am

then you'd be full of yourself Dan :D

9:24 am

tattoo is my phantom

9:26 am

Phantom tattoo...what would be the point...

9:27 am

Oh, but a tattoo of a phantom, big point there

9:27 am

the grid probably couldn't ink the deal

9:28 am

It would have left a big impression

9:35 am

and lettered up the chat

9:39 am

now you're just needling us

9:40 am

Just some parlor tricks

9:43 am

little too long for me today - hagd all and happy babbling!

9:58 am

anyone know what the nine begins with?

9:59 am

I have it, just have to find it

10:00 am

li9 is a pl

10:01 am

thanks.. i'll hunt for that

10:01 am

has to do with coastal regions.. happy hunting

10:01 am

thanks.. got it right away

10:01 am

wow, wtg

10:02 am

thank goodness there isn't a c in the grid

10:02 am

LOL !

10:08 am

down to 25 and time for a brunch break.. fun grid! bbs...

10:08 am

Bwaaaahaaaa

10:08 am

something hit your funny bone une?

10:09 am

i mean if it WERE in the grid.. some men here couldn't find it

10:19 am

Hee hee

10:27 am

200 finally can list now

10:35 am

great job, ru.. I usually list after I have found a min. of 3/4 FW, so off I go. Hope tomorrow's grid is as much fun. (-:

10:35 am

have a great day aloy

10:36 am

I am a little out of practice, so I strive for 1/2 before I hit the list. I did get over half but am now on the list. Hi, y'all!

10:39 am

Hiyas, kiddos!

10:43 am

good morning jud

10:49 am

hello

10:53 am

anyone able to clue the li 7/28?

10:53 am

never mind

10:54 am

I'm an idiot

10:54 am

clue pls ruru?

10:54 am

like the surf line .. with only one T

10:55 am

no idea

10:55 am

li7 drift in the ocean?

10:56 am

ta 6 please, not the snitch one

10:56 am

a small TAT :D

10:58 am

reclue li 7?

11:00 am

look up surf line mlf .. it's right there

11:00 am

ty ruru will do

11:01 am

i gtg for now

11:01 am

ru, I tried tatlet but not getting anything else from your clue

11:02 am

like ralph and Ralphie

11:02 am

sam and sammie

11:02 am

jim and Jimmie

11:02 am

oh just got it. thanks

11:02 am

right before you gave me the last clues.

11:23 am

center t?

11:24 am

never mind

11:46 am

good morning everyoe :)

11:53 am

Hello, Nan.

11:57 am

hi zoom

11:59 am

I think the sheep person clued that ta6 quite thoroughly : D

12:01 pm

wow -- just listed at 150 - I think most of my remaining 76 are a's!

12:08 pm

sheep? -- thought that was a goat

12:09 pm

Someone referred to him as "that sheep person". We thought it was funny. You have a lot more A's than I do if you have 76 of them

12:10 pm

yes -- just seemed like a lot of blanks at the time :)

12:24 pm

we'll give nan an A for effort at least

12:34 pm

first lo 5 please?

12:35 pm

nm - found

12:35 pm

browned bread?

12:36 pm

don't know - new one for me

12:38 pm

oh - lo not to

12:49 pm

la7?

12:52 pm

It's a period of time before puberty

12:56 pm

te 8 please?

12:57 pm

looking for that too nan

12:57 pm

ty bich

12:57 pm

yw phae

12:57 pm

te8...te4 and ta4

12:58 pm

thanks phaeton

12:58 pm

ty phae

12:58 pm

sante

12:59 pm

oops sorry!

1:00 pm

yw

1:03 pm

not finding that te 8

1:03 pm

think of hitchcock...

1:04 pm

ea poe

1:04 pm

pudgy fat bald?

1:04 pm

ha oops!

1:05 pm

"the te 8 heart" guy

1:05 pm

te8...to relate something and a tall story

1:05 pm

no idea - didn't like horror movies so have never watched any of them

1:06 pm

not a movie- a short story - classic

1:06 pm

Love ea Poe

1:08 pm

No horror movies by Edgar Allan Poe

1:09 pm

didn't know hitchcock wrote short stories

1:09 pm

hitchcock is for the birds

1:09 pm

i was wrong on hitchcock - i was thinking of poe

1:10 pm

don't tell my HS english teacher, he'd be very disappointed.

1:10 pm

The Te8 Heart is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe

1:10 pm

ah - ty molly

1:11 pm

sorry was confused -- thought hitchcock was a clue for the te 8

1:12 pm

have heard of the poe ta 4, but have never read it

1:12 pm

*!*~*!* thanks for the help

1:13 pm

Wasn't that the heart that kept beating after it was removed from it's person?

1:13 pm

its

1:13 pm

the selections for our english lit classes in school were just that -- english lit rather than american

1:14 pm

the one exception was robert frost

1:16 pm

There were a lot of great American writers, many quite famous. It's a shame you didn't get exposed to a wide range of literature.

1:17 pm

don't forget we are part of the british empire --- we also studied a lot of british history

1:20 pm

We read a lot of American writer in my classes, Hemingway, Faulkner, Harper Lee, Henry James etc

1:20 pm

I think the school selections now are more eclectic now than they were 60 years ago.

1:21 pm

I was in high school in the 70s and took a lot of English courses

1:22 pm

that's 20 years behind me, bonkler

1:23 pm

I mean 20 years after me

1:23 pm

I suspect that given America's massive cultural gravity, Canadians end up knowing a good deal more about America than vice versa, often more than they do about Canada.

1:24 pm

lol - some of the novels read in the schools now would have been "banned in Boston" in my day and considered to be porn.

1:26 pm

We read the introduction to the Canterbury Tales, but were not allowed to read the tales themselves -- too racy!

1:29 pm

I have no idea what they study now but I got in all manner of trouble for refusing to stand for the lord's prayer during the morning announcements. I was removed from editing the school paper for an editorial calling for its removal from a secular, public school. I caused a lot of problems. Dropped out of grade 13 and started a punk rock band :)

1:31 pm

It was great being part of a huge cultural shift. A lot of changes came into the system as I was heading out the door.

1:32 pm

i'm just slightly offended by "America's cultural gravity"..

1:33 pm

the elephant next door

1:34 pm

make that "America's massive cultural gravity"

1:52 pm

last ta 6/18?

1:55 pm

nm

2:26 pm

US is only a part of America...

2:27 pm

true..

2:27 pm

but i'm not sure bonkler was including Mexico and Canada in his statement? Not sure really

2:29 pm

Me neither

2:29 pm

wish we could move the border south so that Boston would be in Canada...

2:31 pm

yeah.. then there would at least be some terrible Canadian Drivers :D

2:32 pm

:D Boston does have a reputation for bad drivers-- of course, excluding me...

2:32 pm

boston does.. i've experienced it.. for sure

2:33 pm

i'm popping into Boston this summer

2:33 pm

I live in Boston-- SUVs are the absolute worst...

2:34 pm

it's a great city otherwise

2:36 pm

Watch out for SUVs-- they know they won't get too hurt & bully their way anywhere they please-- I know-- I got my Camry totaled by one a little more than a year ago-- cut right in front of me & stopped-- broke my knee & wrist--

2:36 pm

yes, I love Boston

2:39 pm

Our "different" accent sounds normal to me-- I can detect the arrs, though they're not audible to others...

4:05 pm

Hi. libarebel; why DO Bostonians not pronounce their "R's"?

4:06 pm

Nef, other costal port cites don't either: NYC; Charleston, SC, Savannah GA..

4:10 pm

Interesting. IDK anyone from SC or GA; but the people I've met from Rhode Island & NYC weren't so hard to understand. (Then again, maybe they've been around the Midwest or exposed to our accents more than the people I've met from Boston?) IDK; I was hoping for a linguistic reason for it

4:10 pm

Nef, you could do a Google search on that question, but the answer is pretty boring.

4:11 pm

I suppose I could Google it, Molly; (& I probably will), but since libarebel mentioned it I thought I'd ask.

i'm from Jersey. some of us do, some of us don't.

btw is there some type of celestial event going on like a full moon, or is the low barometric pressure affecting peoples' brains???

4:13 pm

Exactly, TO, not all in NJ do at all.

it would appear my accent, along with rapid speech style, is hard for some to decipher in carual conversation , as opposed to formal presentations.

4:15 pm

i've never had trouble understanding you at all when we've met in person. :)

omg when i lived in FL for the summer...it was like a foreignn country.

4:16 pm

LOL yeah, FL is like that for a lot of us.

4:16 pm

sano

4:16 pm

ooops

npr weekend edition did a piece on a reporter for the miami herald who collects " aA manin FL " sotires. like, " A man in FL threw a gator into the drive through window at Wendu's today". that is a real story.

4:18 pm

ah, Florida Man at his best :D

i am sure you can read between the typos.

i think there's a florida man website.

fl, home of my ex inlws. apparently there is les then six degrees of separation between NJ and FL, given how quickly they adapted to redneck life.

pardeon the typo, it's than

:/

4:20 pm

LOL So many of my older NYC friends retired to FL, especially around Miami.

4:20 pm

ALl good, TO :)

central fla...it's not a magic kingdom.

4:36 pm

Molly, I've been off exploring Boston accents; and I now know more about phonemes, accents (both rhotic and non-rhotic), diphthongs, and fricatives than I ever expected to; but it certainly hasn't been boring! (Seriously, I doubt if I'd ever use any of the info I just read in any useful way at all, however.)

hi nef

4:37 pm

When i lived in Boston, could tell which town someone was from by how they talked.

4:37 pm

hi TO

4:38 pm

down here, maybe a third of state can be determined by accent.

md or va?

4:41 pm

I remember (when I was younger) hearing that the midwestern accent was what all newscasters were trained to use. I always thought it was funny, because we *didn't* have accents (in my mind, anyway) but have learned over the years that the midwestern accent is just as distinct as other parts of the country are.

i'v ethought about speech lessons to lose mine

4:44 pm

Is your accent extremelydistinct, TO? (dc said he hasn't had trouble understanding you; so it can't be too bad, right?)

it

it's distinct. another feature of the region is rapid speech.

4:47 pm

just back-- I think Bostonians speak w/ a broad A (as in "Paahrk) is a leftover from the British accent-- we were the earliest colony, I think...

the distinct philadelphia o is also descended from the british.

4:48 pm

I'm always impressed with people who can speak fast. That's something I've never been able to do (but that isn't to say my speech is slow, either)

4:49 pm

I've actually been asked, on several occasions, if I were from Australia(!) I don't get that!

phone is more like faown

4:51 pm

That's interesting, libarebel. I wonder why they'd think it was an Australian accent?

4:52 pm

Beats me, Nef, though Australians sound kind of British...

4:54 pm

re: the "r" sound for Bostonians; in reading about it, the R in car is pronounced if the following word starts with a vowel but not if it starts with a consonant (that's the rhotic/non-rhotic part of what I read).

4:54 pm

I wish you could hear me say "I parked the car in Harvard Yard" :D

can you imagine if chat had sound?

4:56 pm

interesting, Nef-- as in French-- never 2 vowel sounds in a row-- more fluid that way...

4:56 pm

LOL! I did read how that sounds; but there's no way I could write it that way here

4:56 pm

TO, that would be a nightmare (if chat had sound!)

4:57 pm

Chat w/ sound-- a veritable cacophony!

4:58 pm

Even without accents; sometimes there are so many different convos going on at once it would definitely be overwhelming!

4:58 pm

an understatement! :D

5:02 pm

In French, chat (w/ silent "T" means cat-- chatte ("T" pronounced means "pussy"-- a friend of mine found that one out the hard way-- while in France she told people that her hostess had "deux chattes" :D

5:03 pm

People expressed desire to meet her hostess...

5:03 pm

Oh, My! Not knowing French; I can imagine that was taken wrong?

5:04 pm

Oh yeah!

6:19 pm

libarebel, my Bostonian grandmother used to say pardon me, paaahdon. Also baaaahstid. hahah

6:20 pm

Her last name was peabody, and she pronounced it pebidy

6:21 pm

my favourite is in Maine where they talk about the humdiddy on da wahdah

6:37 pm

my favorite is at the ballpark "getcha fenway Franks Heaaah

6:43 pm

Pebidy is correct! I worked w/ a woman from CT & she pronounced it Peeboddy, much to our (Bostonian amusement :D

6:44 pm

Heeah is also correct, as is baaaahstid!

6:45 pm

They actually do say "ayuh" in Maine :D

6:46 pm

i don't....and i don't really know anyone who does....

6:47 pm

We in Boston also say Satiddy for Saturday-- that one I can hear, but I still can't help pronouncing it that wat...

6:47 pm

+way*

6:48 pm

Maybe the guy in Maine who said it that way could tell we were tourists & was humoring us?

6:49 pm

perhaps....

7:00 pm

i am done....goodnight all....

7:15 pm

The Peabody Institute in Baltimore is pronounced 'peedbody' so the pibidy thing was at first confusing to me.

7:16 pm

I can see why, dc

7:18 pm

The same CT woman was w/ me at a party where someone was looking for his "car keys", and was looking for his "khakis", again much to our (Bostonian) amusement

7:20 pm

She didn't find either...

7:39 pm

LOL I neven had trouble understanding anyone when i lived there, nor when i vist there.

7:43 pm

Make sure you don't forget your caah kees when you visit!

7:43 pm

Or your khakis, for that matter...

7:44 pm

I'm from RI originally... he drives a shahp cah! Also "youse guys"

7:45 pm

but my favorite is 'bubbluh" (water fountain)

7:46 pm

:D-- Yup-- I have relatives in RI & they speak "normally...

7:46 pm

Bubbluh, of course! :D

7:48 pm

I miss the original frappuccino sold at the Steaming Kettle in Scollay Sq. Starbucks ruined that product after they bought that shop.

7:50 pm

Sadly, Scollay Sq. is now the concrete jungle of Government Center or, Gummint Centah"

7:51 pm

They took out the entire West End... :(

7:53 pm

or maybe East-- I was about 18 when it happened-- long ago...

7:58 pm

hi all... weird thing, I just got fireworks twice

7:59 pm

premature FW, very strange

8:01 pm

i've had the happen a couple times. It's confusing when it does. Hi, nrkii

8:01 pm

hiya seain

8:03 pm

well, that's me done... nobody clue-searching, so I'll say goodnight!

8:05 pm

g'night nrkii :)

8:05 pm

OK, I give up on this OS 6.... help please? last word to get FT tonite!

8:08 pm

i'll os6 your heart.

8:08 pm

o + rob

8:09 pm

o + beg, borrow & s****

9:51 pm

gosh DC and Nrkii.. I guess you don't know if you're coming or going around here :D

10:25 pm

would love clues for the 9 and any 8s. ty

10:28 pm

Te8. Poe's The Te****** Heart

10:30 pm

St8 plural of st7/28

10:31 pm

ty got the te.

10:31 pm

dont have st 7 ytet

10:31 pm

sorry

10:32 pm

i have two st 7s but neither works for the 8

10:32 pm

sorry

10:32 pm

S+ canvas dwelling + either/**

10:33 pm

And plural

10:33 pm

ty got those st words. ty

10:34 pm

and got the 8. ty.

10:34 pm

just need the 9 now.

10:36 pm

Plural of li8/40

10:36 pm

ty. looking for li 8.

10:39 pm

need a clue for the li 8. sorry.

10:41 pm

No idea how to clue

10:41 pm

ok

10:42 pm

li 8/40 sounds like "you mean exactly what you say" but means is similar to intertidal

10:43 pm

And hi again, Everyone.

10:44 pm

ty

10:45 pm

Fw!!

10:45 pm

got them. ty

10:45 pm

YAY, Unea!! WTG!!!

10:45 pm

wtg, mkg

10:46 pm

hello, just starting the grid

10:46 pm

Hi harp. Have you been able to dig out yet?

10:50 pm

yes, finally. everything is pretty well dug out. now we are getting a few days of below zero and wind. Then spring starts.

10:51 pm

LOL! Up until your last sentence there; that's the same here.

10:52 pm

Spring is probably going to involve flooding, unfortunately.

10:52 pm

May I have stats for the top row i please?

10:53 pm

Oh, they are definitely predicting flooding here in (as my brother calls it) the Flatlands.

10:54 pm

il 4 /4

10:54 pm

Hi Nef--I'm on my way to bed so will just say hi. I'm still archiving. I'd like to get to Mlps in the spring but don't see how, yet. I do watch the chat, notice what's going on with people tho I miss a lot. Don't say much. Ru's goat-sheep discussion made me dream I was riding my goat on a country road and the goat deiced not to go farther. I woke up in worry, how to get to the meeting the goat-ride was getting me to. Did I send you a vol 4, the final one? JJ

10:55 pm

thanks

10:55 pm

stats for the lone L?

10:56 pm

Hi RB; yes, I have volume 4. I've just unpiled a bunch of books from my nightstand and find that your stories are perfect for bedtime (I can't read in bed anymore, trifocals makes reading in bed harder I found)

10:58 pm

harp, I have it blacked out but can't figure out which word (but I think it's a la 4/4

11:01 pm

yep la 4/4

11:01 pm

harp, the other stats for that upper i are il 5/10

11:02 pm

I'm glad you're enjoying them! good to hear from you. But I'm off to bed. (We had snow and ice today and low ,llow temps. My snowdrops have made 3 attempts to bloom! Goodnight.

11:02 pm

Good Night, RB. Take care of yourself & stay warm!

11:06 pm

my comments on goats and sheep has brought up nanny discussions in the chat

11:09 pm

Did you ever expect someone to dream of your goat, ru?

11:10 pm

I thought she was kid-ding

11:10 pm

dreaming about goats is a little billy

11:11 pm

especially riding them? ;-)

11:13 pm

you could say she was riding on a chevre-let

11:14 pm

LOL! Sorry, ru; I wish I could keep up with your puns! :-)

11:28 pm

it's ok.. i'm probably putting too many pasture

11:30 pm

I think that's my problem; my brain has gone to pasture for too long!

11:31 pm

I do it because i had a blow to my head

11:32 pm

Are you saying you pun due to a concussion?

11:32 pm

sorta.. it was only a grazing blow :D

11:32 pm

Groan!

11:33 pm

LOL

11:34 pm

THat was a good set up, you know

11:34 pm

:D I planned it that way

11:34 pm

figures

11:35 pm

aloe

11:35 pm

OOPS!

11:59 pm

I love to read the chat

11:59 pm

it is fun when ruru gets going. I don't even try to engage

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