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Old September 8th, 2019, 08:01 PM
'Efrem G Mallach' via Dixonary
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Default Re: [Dixonary] Round 3012 ASYNTEDON results

For what it's worth, I find most of mine in the London Times cryptic crossword puzzles - including "asyntedon." Its clue was "Reduction in sentence? Yes, and no criminal gets time inside."

I own an unabridged dictionary, thanks to an editor for whom I did a few favors some decades back, but I don't remember the last time I opened it. When I need to look up a word. Google is usually closer at hand.)

Efrem

> On Sep 8, 2019, at 8:29 PM, Tony Abell <hello (AT) isanybodyhome (DOT) com> wrote:
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> My apologies to Debbie for my tactical vote. Were I playing for points, I
> would have voted for #8, which was indeed the real definition. But I was not
> playing for points; I was playing to avoid the deal.
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> I had no words in store to play, and unlike everyone else, apparently, I find
> the process of researching suitable words to be time-consuming and
> frustrating. I actually don't mind the mechanics of dealing, but finding good
> words to play is murder. I really, really don't have hours to spend poring
> over unabridged dictionaries. There was a time when I would read dictionaries
> for fun, but moiling for words that combine the characteristics of obscurity,
> having not been played before, having hard-to-guess definitions and
> (preferably) not being known by John Barrs is more work than fun.
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>> 15. a morpheme in morphology and syntax that has syntactic characteristics
>> of a word, but depends phonologically on another word or phrase. In this
>> sense, it is syntactically independent but phonologically dependent, always
>> attached to a host. From Embler, D. who voted 2, 11. Voted for by: Shefler,
>> M.; Carson, C.; Madnick, J.; Abell, T.; Lodge, T.; Widdis, D. Score: 6.

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