Episode 23 notes

FILMI music composed for indian films
HOURI beautiful maiden in muslim belief
POORI a light flat wheat cake
TEMPI pl. of tempo
VOLTI used to direct musicians to turn the page
post script: CAMPI pl of CAMPO an open space in town

E dumps:
EMEER emir (an arab chieftan or prince)
ETWEE etui (a case for holding small articles)
FEEZE to faze
HEEZE to hoist
GELEE a cosmetic gel
REEVE to fasten by passing through or around

$: SENITI monetary unit of tonga

Episode 22 Notes

FATHER anagrammed:
HAFTER one that hafts (supply with a handle)
TREFAH (TREF)- unfit for use according to jewish law


TEFF cereal grass
TIFF to quarrel
TOFF a dandy
TUFF a volcanic rock

CHLAMYS a garment worn in ancient greece
here's a link if you want to hear it pronounced right:
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/chlamys

similar words...

SOBA a japanese noodle
SOCA blend of soul & calypso
SODA
SOFA
SOJA the soybean
SOLA pl. of SOLUM- a soil layer
SOMA body of an organism
SORA a marsh bird
SOYA soy

$ of the week RIAL: monetary unit of Iran
anagrams to
ARIL outer covering of certain seeds
LAIR
LARI monetary unit of Maldives! I missed another currency!
LIAR
LIRA
RAIL

LIRA can be pluralized to LIRAS LIRE LIRI LIROTH LIROT

the most versatile 4 letters:
AEST: ATES EAST EATS ETAS SATE SEAT SETA TEAS

spot the phony quiz answers:


TEFF cereal grass
TIFF to quarrel
TOFF a dandy
TUFF a volcanic rock

Episode 21 Notes

Here's a brief list of words and their definitions from the latest episode..

YCLEPT/ YCLEPED called; named

RAKEE/ RAKI a turkish liqueur

RAGEE / RAGI east indian cereal grass

also, AJEE, ALEE, AWEE are all good.

BLOOIE/ BLOOEY being out of order
FLOOIE/ FLOOEY awry

CUIF COOF a dolt

NERTS/ NERTZ used to express defiance. (or in place of nuts)

Holy Crap..

...I went a whole month without posting. Oh well.

Thought I'd show you a pic of one of my infamous 'play-by-myself-on-my-lunch-break' games.

learned words this game:

BUNDIST- a member of a bund (political association)
FROGLETS- a young frog (I had FORGETS and just wondered if this might be a word)
TELIA- pl. of TELIUM, a sorus on the host plant of a rust fungus. Wow! I can't believe I didn't know such a common word!

By the way, the score was 470-408. I won.

COOKIE

Ok, I don't even need to write a definition in here. 'Duh, COOKIE?', you're saying...

Well the real reason I put this in here is:
A. I really like cookies.
2. Because I didn't know that COOKEY and COOKY are good words. Just looks like bad spelling to me.

FEUAR

n. pl. -S one granted land under Scottish feudal law

I knew FEU was a word, but I guess I never looked at the extensions of it. Also good are FEUED and FEUING.

Speaking of granted land, I'm trying to nail down a family vacation in VA. And let me say that dealing with landlords, deposits, and contracts via email is not fun.

NIGELLA

n. pl. -S an annual herb

I found this one on the NSA word of the day page, where today's word was GALLEIN.
NIGELLA is an anagram, and also happens to be a British chef (ironically) who has a couple of cookbooks lining our kitchen shelf. My wife also just let me know that she already knew it was an herb. Guess I'm not as sharp as I thought.