Round 3554 Word Announcement: BLAA

[Tim Lodge]

Here we go again!

The new word is:

                  BLAA

Please send your fake defs and DQs to me by email to d...@timlodge.co.uk before the deadline of:
         
        09:00 UTC/GMT on Tuesday 17th June
        10:00 BST in London
        11:00 CET in France and the Netherlands
         5:00 AM EDT in New York  
         2:00 AM PDT in California
        21:00 NZST in New Zealand

New players are welcome.  Don't look up the word, but just send me a fake and fanciful definition of the word.

--  Tim L

[France International/Mike Shefler]

What a bored sheep says as it is being sheared.

--Mike
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[Daniel B Widdis]

I know this word.

Blaa!

Sent from my iPhone

On Jun 15, 2025, at 3:06 PM, 'Tim Lodge' via Dixonary <dixo...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

Here we go again!

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[Paul Keating]

Played by Efrem in 3518.

P

[Daniel B. Widdis]

Maybe that's where I remember it from. :)

On Sun, Jun 15, 2025 at 11:14 PM Paul Keating <dixo...@boargules.com> wrote:

Played by Efrem in 3518.

P

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[Tim Lodge]

Sorry - I did check the used word list and BLAA wasn't there.  My memory must be going as well as I now see Efrem payed BLAA in February this year.  New new word coming shortly!

--  Tim L

[Paul Keating]

I think you may have consulted one of the several dozen increasingly out-of-date versions of that list that are passed hand to hand in the group. If BLAA isn't in your list, what word does your list give for Round 3518?

And If that round isn't there, then your list is at least 4 months out of date. I added BLAA (and the 5 words that were played before it) on 9 Febrary.

P

[Efrem Mallach]

On Jun 16, 2025, at 2:14 AM, Paul Keating <dixo...@boargules.com> wrote:

Played by Efrem in 3518,

... who thought it looked familiar, but completely forgot its meaning!

Efrem

[Chowie]

Does anyone have an updated list they would be willing to share? 

~Bending under the weight of His mercies~

The Eternal God is my refuge, and underneath are the Everlasting Arms. 

Deuteronomy 33:27

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[Paul Keating]

It is here, last updated yesterday:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ITWvWK2Cww5Iai72KZAWJ-i9-SIyUBCty7ZyW6rvE6s/edit?gid=2017608560#gid=2017608560

And it will stay updated, no matter when you need to consult it.

And once you have opened it in a browser, you will never need to search for it again, because you can go to Google Docs (docs.google.com) and search for Used Words List. Docs remembers where you have been, and will treat the file as yours, because every member of the group has access to it.

But if you forget, go to dixonary.net and follow the menus to Old Games | Used Word List. That site has been the home for this group's documents ever since we migrated to Google Groups. I know that some players still hanker after a file store in the group, like CompuServe's Files Section. But Google Groups does not have an equivalent and never had, and it's been 18 years now.

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[Chowie]

Thank you, Paul.

~Bending under the weight of His mercies~

The Eternal God is my refuge, and underneath are the Everlasting Arms. 

Deuteronomy 33:27

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[Daniel B. Widdis]

In addition to checking the spreadsheet (which shouldn't be more than a few rounds out of date) you can also search any "recent" words (since we moved to Google Groups) by simply going to the group site and searching for a conversation: https://groups.google.com/g/dixonary/search?q=blaa

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[Tim Lodge]

Thanks, Paul

I'd glibly been using the link to WORDSABC.txt on the Used Words explanatory page at https://sites.google.com/dixonary.net/dixonarydocs/old-game-archive/used-word-list?authuser=0.  Unfortunately I didn't notice that it hadn't been updated since 2023, nor did I read the text warning of that above it!  I've now set up a bookmark for the Google Sheet version, and will try to remember to use it in future.  Incidentally, I'm now doing this on my PC and can see the updated spreadsheet, but when I first tried it on my tablet, I got an old version of the Google Sheet. 

--  Tim L

[Paul Keating]

That's an illustration of a fundamental: store the same data in two places, and it is only a matter of time before the two versions will start to disagree.

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From: 'Tim Lodge' via Dixonary <dixo...@googlegroups.com>

Date: 16/06/2025 20:00 (GMT+01:00)

To: Dixonary <dixo...@googlegroups.com>

Subject: Re: [Dixonary] Round 3554 Word Announcement: BLAA

Thanks, Paul

[Shani Naylor]

I would much prefer to use a text document. I've been using one from 2023. Could someone send me an updated version. 

Thanks

Shani

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[Paul Keating]

You can make your own up-to-date one yourself at any time by opening the list at dixonary.net, tapping ctrl-A, for select all, then ctrl-C, for copy, (Mac: ⌘A ⌘C) and pasting it into whatever document you like. 

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