September 12, 2024
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na7
ta7
Clues are up
an8
nbt, nbs
this game taught me that haint as in 'haint blue' is very much local to this part of the Appalachian dialect continuum. Probably from Northern England or Scots I'd guess.
haint means spirit
morning babblers, hi seain! Linked to haunted maybe?
apparently, yes.
ks killed
there's a set of colors we call West Virginia colors: Paint the house a brick red and yellow, with haint blue around the windows and doors and the underside of porch roofs, and the floors of the porches to keep spirits out.
haint blue is a sort of bright, but deeper shade, of sky blue.
ah nice. I know that painting blue around windows and doors helps to keep flies out, didn't know about spirits
huh. I had no clue about the flies being repelled by that.
that's useful to know.
we tend toward full screens here to prevent that
I think the practice is older than the existence of screens, tbh.
probably.
only just found an8. As I'm allergic to it. Upside, I knew that suffix would prove useful.
:D
I keep wanting to make ananas
Oh, I see Sprite went on a murder spree against the Ks again! I'm lacking one.
pineapples or bananas?
gooooo jeanne!
bananas minus b equals pineapple
::nods:: ananas means one or the other through parts of Latin America
Gonna get there! Then time for bed. I've got a rare morning meeting to wake up for. I dislike things that get in the way of Babble, like having to go to bed and that sort of thing.
ikr? I hate it when life or work gets between babble and me. So inconsiderate.
absolutely concur. My fault for volunteering though. Ah, it's only once a month. Small sacrifice.
I am fully willing to volunteer. I work for the telephone sos line and I help at school. But I refuse to do meetings. I hated them while working for pay. Not gonna torture myself anymore with them now that I no longer have to.
I'm such a ditz! Thanks to my complaining just now, I thought I'd check my e-mail....Meeting has been changed to FRIDAY!!!!!!!!!!! I can play longer!!!!!!!!
hooray!
oh wow! That is good news :)
ah lovely, the laughing fence is back
:)
I volunteered for two things: This monthly meeting is our county's Veteran's office, and I'm a commissioner. Twenty years military (a whole lifetime ago, but hey, I still love my brothers and sisters in uniform!); the second was a care home for developmentally and/or psychologically disabled folks, until the state closed it down and moved everyone to other homes in the state. I had a stepbrother who used to live in such a facility, so I did that work as a tribute to him (he was also a veteran as well, so it served double-duty).
what a mitzvah, Jeanne!
you rock!
mitzvot
properly declined in yiddish, yes.
Ho, ho! What is a laughing fence? And I think I'm about to learn a new word! Gotta go look it up.....
yes, so great. Thanks for your service.
hebrew, isn't is dc?
it is a babblet, it is in my profile list. A border marker, scots I believe. It sounds like a laugh.
-ot for female, yes, Hebrew.
my Hebrew is weak
mine too. I'm thinking yiddish would be something like mitzvos
naturally, the pl would be mitzvoses. ha ha ha ha, so annoying i am.
I am familiar with the spelling mitzvah or mitzwah, not with the other ones.
not annoying :)
I love learning.
Duh. I should have guessed. I love Yiddish, and I wish I knew more of it! For some reason my family's older members used A LOT of the common ones. We're not Jewish. But I have a few private guesses as to why (German emigres, some members from "further East," this from an ancient scrap of family papers. Always wondered if they were Russian Jews fleeing from pogroms or something. Most of the names kind of go with somewhat typical German Jewish names. Not one shred of proof. Hubby wants me to take a DNA test. Does it count if two Jewish oldsters said I had a Jewish soul, LOL!
not annoying at all. We are all language lovers here, it is interesting!
I learned several years ago that the original form of my surname was Gutreich -- the left Friesland and moved to England.
My brother learned Hebrew. I will have to ask him about noun and verb construction! I never thought to ask him.
there is a lot of yiddish in the the dutch language. And I have read the Faye Kellerman series which gives an interesting peek into the jewish faith and culture.
and my line then onto what would be the US
fascinating jeanne. i think you have to be close to something. I'd be eager to check dna.
neat, sprite.
Family histories are interesting. As one friend always says, we're all a little Jewish somewhere along the line.
oy gevalt. I was made an honorary jew, as I was a chef for a jewish owned catering company and it was deemed I had suffered enough.
i had no idea, sprite. so interesting.
I did the dna thing. My y-chromosome is of the Northern European type, common in Iceland, British Isles, Netherlands, NW Germany and Scandinavia.
definitely have dna done
and thank you for your service, gingentle!
that is so cool, seain! Friesland is part of the Netherlands, we are practically family now (my grandfather was a full Fries, and I got some from the other side of the family as well, so I am more than 1/4 Fries myself. Maiden name is Elsinga)
I learnt oy vey fer schimmel from a great-grandfather.
All of you have fun and interesting bits! I'm getting more encouraged to do the DNA testing. Anybody got a recommendation for the best one or type?
that is awesome, gingentle
neat, sprite! My ancestors came from a Sepherad community there.
i was Chef for nearly 20 years. I can cook kosher like nobody's biz and can stand up to the VAAD without waivering!
if you want heritage, go with Ancestry. others for disease,
I love it when the chat becomes so engrossing I forget to babble!
cool, gingentle
and what does that mean, seain? the schimmel part?
I think it means shit
schimmel can mean mold, or a white horse
my mom's family use very 'colorful' language.
oh, he was from NW Germany, so that could be.
gingentle, I rather feel that being named an honorary Jew is quite something to feel really good about -- you have been accepted as a loving soul! A Jewish friend from Russia said I reminded her of her childhood best friend. Turns out we have the same surname! And my actual surname is NOT Jewish!!! But it was somewhat common (probably more like not highly unusual) for Jews living around Odessa.
we were both just gobsmacked.
one of the very traditional jewish things i perfected was answering a question with a question
cool Jeanne
I am fascinated by this chat. And I agree, jeanne, seems to me to be a huge honour to be considered a honorary Jew.
Oh, lord, you guys, keep dishing out the Yiddish! I may just lurk for awhile (I always feel bad when I glut up the chog!)
I met a distant cousin in High school -- her surname was my mother's maiden name.
i do like 'nu?'
nu? is so useful!
Nu, chto?
lol gingentle... that is something I still want to learn. I am so freakin' conditioned to answer every question. I am nearing 60 and finally starting to learn not to do that.
nu, and oy vey... so very very useful
i tend to think of old men with the nu, but that's just my experience.
Sprite, too much information you should not give..
there are levels of oy.
I found a na4/5 that my brain wants to be a Spanish verb in two forms.
oy
oy vey
there are levels of oy, indeed!
so very true, gingentle.
oy vey gevalt
i use it - friendly start to conversation
oy geshrigen
oy gevalt also known
And for the rest of the lurkers, this whole Jewish/Yiddish convo has nothing to do (pro or con) with the current Israeli/Palestinian issue. Just the age-old connections of history and language. Just don't want anyone to find offense to take.
agreed with jeanne
oh... indeed. Not related to that at all. Not politically coloured, just language oriented chat.
the yiddish language is a mashup of hebraic and german
a chasm between jewish and feelings about what's going on.
that there is indeed, mab
and I think that's sort of how my family came by it...plus, lots of Amish in my area.
lots of Amish near my dad's family in central Ohio too.
room for most opinions for me. well, actually...
I visit Pennsylvania Amish country now and again.
"Love one another."
we do our best here among us we do!
this reminds me to place an order with an Amish store in Illinois for green tomato relish
I miss being able to buy green tomatoes in the store to make fried green tomatoes with.
dcseain -- Okay. You're close to home. I'm from Muskingum County. Parents from Oil City, Pennsylvania.
i'll likely always stand with israel, but not it's actions and certainly not bb.
I love the corneal covered fried green tomatoes with a red pepper coulis.
you can find them at some farmers markets
bb the politician is a monster. I have much respect for him the academic, but ugh the politician.
oh, good point re farmers market.
corrupt to the core. but enough.
dcseain -- did you see my origin location from 1:18?????
dc, I am disabled and can never motivate myself to go to farmers mkt. I hate crowds
politics and politicians.... NOT my cup of tea. Too many lies. Too much abuse of power.
oh! my dad's people live in Licking County and Maskingum County.
sprite, esp when the politicans are orange
I hear you, gingentle. It is a blessing that nowadays many things can be ordered online.
and stand with orban
my dad grew up in Gratiot and Hopewell.
Holy moly!!!!! I grew up right in the crux of Muskingum, Guernsy and Coshocton counties, just south of Wills Creek!!!
You've got the mounds, right?
it is a small, small world
Indeed!
I'm of Drums and Gutridges from Hopewell.
yes, in a park near Newark
I was born and live in Northern Virginia near DC.
but do visit my Ohio family at least once a year.
Sadly, not familiar with those names. My stepmom now lives in Akron, and I'll see her in a month. I sit in Iowa now.
well, I have passed halfway and am off to dreamland. Toodles peeps!
You live near my brother in Leesburg, I think!
g'night and sweet dreams, gingentle
sleep well, gingentle!
g'night, gingentle!
I'm about half an hour from Leesburg in Reston.
night gingentle.
This is pretty darn neat. Glad to speak with you. I've seen you on here for, like, forever! This is the most I've EVER posted! I do love this community, though.
you need to stop apologising for joining the chat, jeanne, lol, you are part of it and a lovely part too
me too, jeanne. all of what you just said.
I'm always glad to see people in this chat. Solid community.
Ah, thank you all. But I'm sure some just want to see clues and stats and hate leafing through the "non-essential" chatter. Hence, the apology.
it is. Great people, lovely minds.
we used to chat with each other a lot. It's nice when that happens.
yeah well, some of us would love to babble without seeing all the clues. Can't please us all.
Sometimes I get sad when no one posts after the flip ;-{
*half wink, half frown*
yes, wild times with lola and i forget the one who wooed her.
I remember the seres of flip and flop then some chatting at the start. Loved that.
well wild may be overstating. fun.
it always amazes me when posting un-asked-for clues is more more important than answering a friendly greeting. Am so happy when the chat is back to its old fun standards :)
hear, hear, sprite!
Whew!
oh, that ta7 was unexpected
a lonnnnng time ago I used to play just before the flip. It was fun clueing to help people race to fireworks before the flip, then start the new grid together without giving away the biggies. But nowadays, I wa4 till a little later and try to ignore the clues.'
lola's beau will come to me at 5-ish a.m.
Everyone should read the first poem in deseain's profile! Fit rather nicely with our conversation!
lol yes, that is Molly. Awesome!
Well, g'night all, gonna start shut-eye procedures. Everyone have a great tomorrow (and all the rest of 'em too!).
sleep well, jeanne!
babble was such a life raft for me back in the beginning. I don't think I thanked Jamie for his creation.
night jeanne.
This was a fun evening, and I promise, no more apologies!
:)
yay jeanne!
I hear ya, mab
it helped me get through night shift at work when I joined.
oh sprite! our novelist!
seain and his cats
and all the willingness to help eachother. In some cases, babble actually saved lives.
it takes so little sometimes to touch someone without even knowing.
indeed so, mab
it does.
thank you for a lovely evening. Time for bed for me.
happy bawling, yall!
sleep well and dream even better, seain.
babbling even
thank you ::poof::
best dreams seain
fireflies. I liked this grid and I loved this chat. Thanks all! *hug* for who wants one and to you all, a blessed day and a peaceful night
sweetest of dreams, sprite
Roast
Sorry
roast
oh bloody hell, there's me copying someone else's mistake! Daft sod
Weird that we had that e7 two days in a row!
still no seitan
I tried it too.
Amazing story about Jon Bon Jovi talking that woman off the edge of the bridge. I have always liked him.
Very nice, and good outcome
he's an advocate for the homeless, one of his places is behind our office bldg ... Connelly House ... some ppl care abt the less fortunate .. we send the office party left-overs there
so the e7 I skipped yesterday is here again? great.
checked word list from yesterday, thought "oh, that ole thing"
My brain cannot wrap itself around a reason to remember that word
it's weird when you see those words right away like that and haniwa (a phantom by the way hokie) that no one else knows in word games
always makes me think of the wells and now I can't remember what that word is.
anyhoo, can't find the i or more than one lower T for HOET
phantom inward though
it's a wind hokie
and see, my brain doesn't remember that. what's the 2nd letter?
et
oh that, I thought you were cluing the i for me
the i is in6
and yes, I had looked up the et and read it was a wind like 5 min ago 🤣
'morning, folks
welki!
hi welk
finally found that i. very regular to be so hard to see.
getting ready for last camping trip of the season - might be a cold one
oh. we have 2 planned in Oct, but the one at the end of the month is in FL
and then have some more FL in Feb
I think my traveling is done for the year now
ruru, what is my missing D?
this trip is to a lake where we hope to use our float tubes for flyfishing. going with a couple of friends, it'll be a cooking trip :)
a pastry da6?
cooking fish you catch?
no, have that one
found it
da4/6?
probably not - depends on how cold the lake is. we're each bringing a couple of dinner dishes
twas the youngest incredible
(will fall over if ruru has seen that)
no idea hokie
his superpower was speed. NFL players run a 40 yd one
oh
sounds like a cartoon?
yes, a disney/pixar movie
yeah.. I wouldn't know that
I thought the baby was the youngest
you right you right. I forgot about the baby.
that movie is somehow 20 years old
Speaking of old, I saw clips of Dick Van Dyke who is almost 99 at the pre-Emmy show and he's still got it.
crazy
There is something about 98-year-old Dick Van Dyke sitting in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang that gives one pause
a tisket, a tasket
any ideas on the bottom T besides the 4 babblet?
a bit stuck with 22 left. 8-5-3-3-3 a lot of big ones left!
I assume the bottom T is big ones
Yes and weird ones
of course
are big ones
(Joins the grammar police)
fini and hooray!
yay pcal2!
Careful Ru, people get harpy when you mention stuff like that 😋
(pratices walking on egg shells)
morning all
good morning mool
hey ru, happy Thursday
it is .. a four day weekend for me yahoo
oh wow, vn
that was practices sorry
rehi
NTPN - pop singer who used a $ in her name as a protest to being uncredited and screwed out of lots of money
Kei$ha?
(pop not my strong suit)
✅✅✅
hey hoke
bonus points if you can name the song they used her voice in without credit and which song that song sampled
hey mooo
happy thursday
you too
tx
well, found one word.oddly, it was a singular to a plural I already had.
oh, found 2 more words. top row gray!
duh, found my last w
just found an s5 babblet I missed yesterday
nice
stuck on 12 left. still no HOET. 4-2-2-1-3
H AA A N S T SSS TT
17 left
RR WW AA DD N SS T K SS E T
found a w
I guess I could look for 4's
found my H. which may or may not have been a 4
ok, it was
hooray
found my 3rd row A
2-2-2-1-3 well, moving on for now
AA N S T SSS TT
3-3-5-4-1
found my other 8
found my e
found my r's
rad
found a 7
found another singer in the grid, this one more pop country
oh dear. listed for the last 10. the russian ruler strikes again. should have gotten that one and maybe 3 more, incl. one of the te8. but the other 6...fuggetaboutit
still 8 left here
2-0-4-2
of course my s's were scottish, hindi, and hebrew
och aye, thank you very much, oy vey
and one babblet that I usually get. just now looked it up to see what it means and it is AKA another word that looks nothing like it but is also in the grid.
ah, found my n
found my s
my N was really hard to see even with the list
my last n was the 7
ah, mine was the nymph
what do you have left now?
2-0-3-1
W A DD T K
well, I have 2 guesses for the d's but there's nothing weird or unusual and my last one was a regular, easy word, which you tend to overlook sometimes too.
pretty sure on the A
my last W that I struggled for a while with was also very regular
ah, found a d
and yours has to be as well
as usual K could be anything. just make stuff up.
I have a guess on your T as well
found my t
2-0-2
was it a 7?
yeah, shoulda found it earlier
oh, found my last k
oh duh on the w
was just a plural
1-0-1
and the d, a 4
so a6 remaining
fw
that was harder than it needed to be
well done
my last w was funny since we replaced a lot of light bulbs today
hah
hi all.stuck with 7 left.
help with first sa5 please
Starts with not happy
ty Molly
in6 please
4 six letter words left
in6 is a regular word though a little twisty
ends in not give
hmm
ty carla
as6/30 and and snd sa6/18 are my last words and I do not see then
and my typing skills are not good today.
there's a word not in the grid that reminds me of the as6. like, she looked at me as*****. like sideways.
ty new word for me. great clue
My friends Memorial Service was today :(
sa6 looks like a plural of a 4 that ends in y (not in grid) maybe means opposite of crazies.
oh, tough day
ty another great clue
yes but at least she is at peace and no longer suffering
I am done. are you done carla?
yep
well done
thanks for your help. I am going now.
byeee
bye
I've found an episodic SF online radio show called The Sojourn. I'm in S1: E4 right now. Season two is in process. Decided to start at the beginning.
I discovered it on Nebula.
Hello, friends.
hi bea, and whomever else is around. 10 left here
HEY WELK
in 6 pls?
oh well, will come back later when time to check chat history
opposite of give out?
anyone still here?
nm...i am done....bye all....
Just little ol me...
hi bea....bye bea... ;o)
Mwaw!
wow i just monkeyed as6/30, what luck!
huh. what are the odds, the same et7 two grids in a row
Missing some tiles. Top row A and i words please. Clues welcome
Sorry. There are no i words. I guess i am too tired.
Still missing top row A words and the second column third row A words too.
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