3586 🗳️ DOG’S LETTER

[Paul Keating]

I have twelve definitions of DOG’S LETTER for you to choose from: Please vote for two, by the deadline, which is Thursday 9 October at 17h00 CEST (countdown timer here: ⏱️), or 48 hours from time of posting. Early closing will apply as usual.

1	A boarding kennel.
2	A children’s story written from a dog’s perspective. See also the “Dog Alphabet” series.
3	A chocolate suet pudding, popular in Scotland.
4	A courier who delivers letters or parcels via dog-drawn sledges.
5	A decoy character inserted into a cipher to disrupt pattern-recognition algorithms and obscure true message structure.
6	A document exempting a retired sailor from impressment in the British Navy.
7	An excuse or explanation that is technically true but deliberately unhelpful or evasive.
8	The initial letter of names given to purebred dogs in France that has been designated annually since 1926 by the pedigree registry LOF.
9	A name for the letter R (from its resemblance in sound to the snarl of a dog).
10	The position of a dog’s ears which communicates their state of mind.
11	A precursor to the modern comma, used in medieval manuscripts as a breath mark, characterized by a small curved tail (ꝯ).
12	A wall clock with pendulum and weights exposed.

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Paul Keating

Soustons, Nouvelle Aquitaine, France

[Daniel B. Widdis]

I think 5 is most likely and 7 is what I would have come up with had my "dog ate my homework" train of thought ever left the station.

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[Chowie]

Some of these are very clever, but I can only vote for two so 8 and 11, it is. 

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~Bending under the weight of His mercies~

​"For we cannot do anything against the truth, 

but only for the truth​." 

II Corinthians 13:8

[Judy Madnick]

No clue. 

2 because I like it

and

7 because I can't think of anything else!

 

I actually like my definition the best but...!

 

Judy Madnick

[Glenn Thomas Davis]

Let's go with 3 and 12.

—Glenn

. . .

The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.

—Plutarch

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[France International/Mike Shefler]

I'll go with 11 and 12.

--Mike

[Eric Boxer]

I'll vote for the centermost words, 6 and 7.

-- Eric

[Efrem Mallach]

I don't see my definition here. That's because I didn't send it in. I can't even blame a progress report with my name in it this time!

(FWIW, it was going to be something along the lines of "a person who uses dogs to pull a sled, based on a mishearing of 'dog sledder' by indigenous people of northern Canada." I doubt it would have received many votes, or any at all.)

I'll try to be more diligent next time despite a lot of things going on in my life these days. They're good things, but they keep me busy.

With that out of the way, I vote for 6 and 11. I hesitate to call them the most plausible, but perhaps they're the least implausible.

Efrem

On Oct 7, 2025, at 11:00 AM, Paul Keating <dixo...@boargules.com> wrote:

I have twelve definitions of DOG’S LETTER for you to choose from: Please vote for two, by the deadline, which is Thursday 9 October at 17h00 CEST (countdown timer here: ⏱️), or 48 hours from time of posting. Early closing will apply as usual.

6

A document exempting a retired sailor from impressment in the British Navy.

[Tim Bourne]

5 and 7, please.

Best wishes,
Tim Bourne.