Thursday, December 20, 2012

12/20/2012

Welcome to the Guess My Word blog. This is a place to discuss the words of the day chosen by Joon and Mike. This paragraph is here mostly as spoiler space. Here are today's words:

mike's word: sclerosis
joon's word: changeling

Discuss.

5 comments:

  1. 11.sax
    12.schedule
    13.schuss
    14.sea
    15.scud
    16.scion
    17.score
    18.scoff
    19.scirocco
    20.scissors
    ....and when I get to 20, I throw in the towel. I thought of 'sclera' but believed it had been used before and did not go further. I guess 'sclerotic' is still in play.

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  2. I sometimes guess on the basis of which word would annoy me the most. I had change-channel, and I immediately went to changeling ("that would be just my luck"), without realizing that there appeared to be no unrelated words in between (going by the Mathematica dictionary I just started using for post-mortem). It was similar for sclerosis. I was at scintilla-scofflaw, and tried sclerotic first, and then went straight to sclerosis, even though there were scion & scissors and related words in between.

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    1. ...'which word would annoy me the most...'

      I *love* that idea. It may help me.

      I bow to thee.

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  3. Strange, the Mathematica dictionary doesn't have scirocco. My Mac's OAD says it's a variant of sirocco.

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  4. Ugh, I had sclera and scleral but couldn't get to sclerosis. Oh well. Better luck tomorrow, I hope.

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