[Dixonary] Round 3224 word: ENS

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Efrem G Mallach

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Jan 13, 2022, 5:08:54 PM1/13/22
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Folks,

The word for Round 3224 is:

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ENS
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where capitalization has no significance.

Please send your fake definition of ENS to emallach at verizon dot net by 5 pm US EST on Sat., Jan. 15, just under 48 hours from now. Don't Reply to this message without changing your reply's To field, or you'll send your fake to all of us.

If  you know what ENS means, please let me know ASAP the same way. If enough people know it, I'll find another. 

According to timeanddate.com, the deadline is:


and other times in other places. You might want to confirm any conversion that affects you. That site's good, but nobody's perfect.

I expect votes to be due 48 hours after the definition deadline. There may be a delay in posting results as I plan to spend Monday afternoon at the Mass. Museum of Contemporary Art and don't know when I'll get back to my Airbnb. More info in the call for votes.

New players are welcome, as are old ones who've been quiet for a while. Just send me a definition that you invented without looking up the word. Full rules at  http://www.dixonary.net/game-rules-and-advice/rules.

Happy defining, and stay safe -

Efrem

Ann Druce

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Jan 14, 2022, 7:38:31 AM1/14/22
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Hi Efrem

 

I know what an en is and I suppose ens is the plural, so I’m a DQ unless this isn’t a plural but something else entirely.

 

Regards

Ann

 

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Judy Madnick

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Jan 14, 2022, 9:26:08 AM1/14/22
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Uh-oh. This message went to the whole group.
 
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Date: 1/14/2022 7:38:23 AM
Subject: Re: [Dixonary] Round 3224 word: ENS

Efrem G Mallach

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Jan 14, 2022, 9:29:50 AM1/14/22
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Ann,

If you're thinking of "en" as the typographic unit of measure, this is totally unrelated. It is a word that happens to end in the letter "s," not a plural. So, please go ahead and define - which you could even if you knew the word - and feel free to vote when the time comes.

Efrem

P.S. In this case it probably doesn't matter that your message went to the whole group, but I figured I'd reply to the group too.

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On Jan 14, 2022, at 7:38 AM, Ann Druce <a...@anndruce.com> wrote:

Hi Efrem
 
I know what an en is and I suppose ens is the plural, so I’m a DQ unless this isn’t a plural but something else entirely.
 
Regards

Ann

 

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From: Dixonary <dixo...@googlegroups.com> on behalf of Efrem G Mallach <efrem....@gmail.com>
Reply to: Dixonary <dixo...@googlegroups.com>
Date: Friday, 14 January 2022 at 00:08
To: Dixonary <dixo...@googlegroups.com>
Subject: [Dixonary] Round 3224 word: ENS
 
Folks,
 
The word for Round 3224 is:
 
***************************
ENS
***************************
where capitalization has no significance.
 
Please send your fake definition of ENS to emallach at verizon dot net by 5 pm US EST on Sat., Jan. 15, just under 48 hours from now. Don't Reply to this message without changing your reply's To field, or you'll send your fake to all of us.
 
If  you know what ENS means, please let me know ASAP the same way. If enough people know it, I'll find another. 
 
According to timeanddate.com, the deadline is:
 
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and other times in other places. You might want to confirm any conversion that affects you. That site's good, but nobody's perfect.
 
I expect votes to be due 48 hours after the definition deadline. There may be a delay in posting results as I plan to spend Monday afternoon at the Mass. Museum of Contemporary Art and don't know when I'll get back to my Airbnb. More info in the call for votes.
 
New players are welcome, as are old ones who've been quiet for a while. Just send me a definition that you invented without looking up the word. Full rules at  http://www.dixonary.net/game-rules-and-advice/rules.
 
Happy defining, and stay safe -
 
Efrem
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Judy Madnick

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Jan 14, 2022, 9:36:11 AM1/14/22
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Thanks for the clarification, Efrem. I was wondering the same thing!
 
Judy

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Date: 1/14/2022 9:29:47 AM
Subject: Re: [Dixonary] Round 3224 word: ENS

Daniel B Widdis

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Jan 14, 2022, 9:46:42 AM1/14/22
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I was contemplating a NAD about “a dashed line on a chart, with shorter dashes than the EMS” but it wasn’t funny enough.  

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amal...@comcast.net

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Jan 14, 2022, 9:54:48 AM1/14/22
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So presumably, we could assume if necessary, that the plural of ens is enses?

Alan

Judy Madnick

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Jan 14, 2022, 9:57:42 AM1/14/22
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LOL!

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Date: 1/14/2022 9:54:02 AM
Subject: RE: [Dixonary] Round 3224 word: ENS

Efrem G Mallach

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Jan 14, 2022, 10:10:19 AM1/14/22
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Alan/etc.,

You can assume whatever you want. You have also assumed that "ens" is a noun. I didn't say that. I dealt the word and clarified that its final "s" doesn't indicate a plural noun. From there on it's up to you.

Rules experts: Do I have to answer that? 

Seriously: the plural form of a noun can indicate Old English, Latin, Greek, Hebrew, etc., origin, or conversely that some of these can be eliminated. Even saying that an English word has a plural form at all says that it's a noun.

Efrem

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France International/Mike Shefler

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Jan 14, 2022, 10:22:57 AM1/14/22
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The belief that all words that end in s are plural nouns.

Efrem G Mallach

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Jan 14, 2022, 10:34:30 AM1/14/22
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Mike,

I assume that's a NAD?

(If it is, I like it. If it isn't - Judy?)

Efrem

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On Jan 14, 2022, at 10:23 AM, 'France International/Mike Shefler' via Dixonary <dixo...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

The belief that all words that end in s are plural nouns.

On 1/13/2022 5:08 PM, Efrem G Mallach wrote:
Folks,

The word for Round 3224 is:

***************************
ENS
***************************
where capitalization has no significance.

Please send your fake definition of ENS to emallach at verizon dot net by 5 pm US EST on Sat., Jan. 15, just under 48 hours from now. Don't Reply to this message without changing your reply's To field, or you'll send your fake to all of us.

If  you know what ENS means, please let me know ASAP the same way. If enough people know it, I'll find another. 

According to timeanddate.com, the deadline is:

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and other times in other places. You might want to confirm any conversion that affects you. That site's good, but nobody's perfect.

I expect votes to be due 48 hours after the definition deadline. There may be a delay in posting results as I plan to spend Monday afternoon at the Mass. Museum of Contemporary Art and don't know when I'll get back to my Airbnb. More info in the call for votes.

New players are welcome, as are old ones who've been quiet for a while. Just send me a definition that you invented without looking up the word. Full rules at  http://www.dixonary.net/game-rules-and-advice/rules.

Happy defining, and stay safe -

Efrem
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amal...@comcast.net

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Jan 14, 2022, 10:35:08 AM1/14/22
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Statistics show that 73.28% of all words that end in s are plural nouns. On the other hand, the great majority of Latvian surnames also end in s.

Alan

 

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Sent: Friday, January 14, 2022 10:23 AM
To: dixo...@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: [Dixonary] Round 3224 word: ENS

 

The belief that all words that end in s are plural nouns.

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Efrem G Mallach

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Jan 14, 2022, 10:36:52 AM1/14/22
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I wonder what the statistics say about the subset of English words that are rare enough for the great majority of Dixonary players not to know them?

Efrem

On Jan 14, 2022, at 10:34 AM, <amal...@comcast.net> <amal...@comcast.net> wrote:

Statistics show that 73.28% of all words that end in s are plural nouns. On the other hand, the great majority of Latvian surnames also end in s. 
Alan
 
From: 'France International/Mike Shefler' via Dixonary <dixo...@googlegroups.com> 
Sent: Friday, January 14, 2022 10:23 AM
To: dixo...@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: [Dixonary] Round 3224 word: ENS
 

The belief that all words that end in s are plural nouns.

On 1/13/2022 5:08 PM, Efrem G Mallach wrote:
Folks,
 
The word for Round 3224 is:
 
***************************
ENS
***************************
where capitalization has no significance.
 
Please send your fake definition of ENS to emallach at verizon dot net by 5 pm US EST on Sat., Jan. 15, just under 48 hours from now. Don't Reply to this message without changing your reply's To field, or you'll send your fake to all of us.
 
If  you know what ENS means, please let me know ASAP the same way. If enough people know it, I'll find another. 
 
According to timeanddate.com, the deadline is:
 
<image001.png>
 
and other times in other places. You might want to confirm any conversion that affects you. That site's good, but nobody's perfect.
 
I expect votes to be due 48 hours after the definition deadline. There may be a delay in posting results as I plan to spend Monday afternoon at the Mass. Museum of Contemporary Art and don't know when I'll get back to my Airbnb. More info in the call for votes.
 
New players are welcome, as are old ones who've been quiet for a while. Just send me a definition that you invented without looking up the word. Full rules at  http://www.dixonary.net/game-rules-and-advice/rules.
 
Happy defining, and stay safe -
 
Efrem
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Stephen Dixon

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A particularly fragrant subgroup of Tolkien’s walking trees.

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amal...@comcast.net

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On its face, in the absence of detailed data about the vocabularies of Dixonary players, that is not a question answerable by statistics.

Alan

Chowie

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Jan 14, 2022, 10:46:42 AM1/14/22
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44.43% of statistics are made up in the moment.

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And I thought it was a joke!
 
Judy

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Date: 1/14/2022 10:34:27 AM
Subject: Re: [Dixonary] Round 3224 word: ENS

Mike,

I assume that's a NAD?

(If it is, I like it. If it isn't - Judy?)

Efrem

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On Jan 14, 2022, at 10:23 AM, 'France International/Mike Shefler' via Dixonary <dixo...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

The belief that all words that end in s are plural nouns.

On 1/13/2022 5:08 PM, Efrem G Mallach wrote:
Folks,

The word for Round 3224 is:

***************************
ENS
***************************
where capitalization has no significance.

Please send your fake definition of ENS to emallach at verizon dot net by 5 pm US EST on Sat., Jan. 15, just under 48 hours from now. Don't Reply to this message without changing your reply's To field, or you'll send your fake to all of us.

If  you know what ENS means, please let me know ASAP the same way. If enough people know it, I'll find another. 

According to timeanddate.com, the deadline is:

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and other times in other places. You might want to confirm any conversion that affects you. That site's good, but nobody's perfect.

I expect votes to be due 48 hours after the definition deadline. There may be a delay in posting results as I plan to spend Monday afternoon at the Mass. Museum of Contemporary Art and don't know when I'll get back to my Airbnb. More info in the call for votes.

New players are welcome, as are old ones who've been quiet for a while. Just send me a definition that you invented without looking up the word. Full rules at  http://www.dixonary.net/game-rules-and-advice/rules.

Happy defining, and stay safe -

Efrem
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amal...@comcast.net

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Of the remainder, 45.3% are made up in advance, and held until needed for purposes of elucidation or obfuscation, as the case may be.

Alan

Efrem G Mallach

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Jan 14, 2022, 10:51:23 AM1/14/22
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I think it was, but it wasn't labeled so I was (and still am) only 99% sure.

Mike ...?

Efrem

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France International/Mike Shefler

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Yes, nad.

Efrem G Mallach

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99 -> 100

Daniel B. Widdis

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Hmm, now I'm tempted to resubmit my definition and make it an eponym from some Latvian person.

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Efrem G Mallach

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Actually, what Alan wrote isn't true. He may have confused Latvian and Lithuanian surnames. According to this site  the most common Latvian surname that ends in "s," Berzins, is #6 on the list. Only 7 of the top 20 end in "s," not a trivial fraction but far from a "great majority." The same site, on a different page, has the top Lithuanian surname that does NOT end in "s," Ivanova, in 27th place. The top 26, and all the following ones down to #48, all do.

So, you may want to rethink your plan.

Efrem

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Hmm, now I'm tempted to resubmit my definition and make it an eponym from some Latvian person.

On Fri, Jan 14, 2022 at 7:35 AM <amal...@comcast.net> wrote:

Statistics show that 73.28% of all words that end in s are plural nouns. On the other hand, the great majority of Latvian surnames also end in s.

Alan

 

From: 'France International/Mike Shefler' via Dixonary <dixo...@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Friday, January 14, 2022 10:23 AM
To: dixo...@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: [Dixonary] Round 3224 word: ENS

 

The belief that all words that end in s are plural nouns.

On 1/13/2022 5:08 PM, Efrem G Mallach wrote:

Folks,

 

The word for Round 3224 is:

 

***************************

ENS

***************************

where capitalization has no significance.

 

Please send your fake definition of ENS to emallach at verizon dot net by 5 pm US EST on Sat., Jan. 15, just under 48 hours from now. Don't Reply to this message without changing your reply's To field, or you'll send your fake to all of us.

 

If  you know what ENS means, please let me know ASAP the same way. If enough people know it, I'll find another. 

 

According to timeanddate.com, the deadline is:

 

<image001.png>

 

and other times in other places. You might want to confirm any conversion that affects you. That site's good, but nobody's perfect.

 

I expect votes to be due 48 hours after the definition deadline. There may be a delay in posting results as I plan to spend Monday afternoon at the Mass. Museum of Contemporary Art and don't know when I'll get back to my Airbnb. More info in the call for votes.

 

New players are welcome, as are old ones who've been quiet for a while. Just send me a definition that you invented without looking up the word. Full rules at  http://www.dixonary.net/game-rules-and-advice/rules.

 

Happy defining, and stay safe -

 

Efrem

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Tim Lodge

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As Noel Coward didn't say: "Lithianians and Letts do it, but Lithuanians do it more frequently".

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Tim Lodge

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Apologies to Cole Prter, who - as far as I can see - actually wrote the Lithuanians and Letts line.  Noel Coward wrote several different versions of lyrics to the same song later.

Efrem G Mallach

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Come to think of it, he may have been thinking of Latvian given names. The great majority of male Latvian given names do end in "s." That isn't true of female Latvian given names, though. Most end in "a," with a substantial minority ending in "e."

Efrem, who (along with his brother) claims no Latvian ancestry, and who (unlike his brother) has never been to Latvia.

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France International/Mike Shefler

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Estonian surnames, on have a proclivity towards double vowels, umlauts and tildas, as in Jõeäär.

--Mike (who has never been to any of the Baltic countries)

amal...@comcast.net

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No, it’s surnames, but Latvian surnames are modified by gender – so a man is Berzins, and a woman Berzina. But (as you’d expect) when generic references are made to the family, it will be the Berzins family, not Berzina.

Alan

 

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Shani Naylor

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Jan 14, 2022, 2:47:10 PM1/14/22
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For what it's worth, I've just discovered a Lithuanian connection on my family tree who was known (at least when he came to NZ in the 1800s) as "Dutch Harry". I suppose "Lithuanian Harry" didn't have the same ring to it. 



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amal...@comcast.net

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From the vantage point of NZ, the difference between the Netherlands and Lithuania was probably seen as negligible.

Alan

Johnb - co.uk

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somewhere 'up there 'and not Great Britain
JohnnyB

Shani Naylor

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Somewhere out there, not west.

nad, with thanks to Johnny 



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