Bloody Quiet, Innit?

[EEPhil]

Passé

Hmm. Is é the same letter as e? As we have carried on, I suppose it is.

Slap

 

[Black Hole]

Hmm. Is é the same letter as e? As we have carried on, I suppose it is.

Just wait until someone plays a word containing a diphthong – then there'll be arguments!

Clasp

 

[EEPhil]

Just wait until someone plays a word containing a diphthong – then there'll be arguments!

I'm wondering whether you could replace 'ss' by ß or ue by ü as the Germans do. That would confuse things.

Places.

 

[RobH1]

Scalp

 

[EEPhil]

Caps

 

[prpr]

Is é the same letter as e?

It is if you're English. Not if you are French. But who cares about them?
I wondered if anybody was going to start an 'argument' about that. But BH didn't. I feel let down.

Spa (Bath, Leamington, Droitwich etc.)

 

[Trev]

Spark (Piezoelectric lighter, flint, hobnailed boot etc.)

 

[RobH1]

Oh for goodness sake Trev, making up your own rules?

 

[Trev]

I never could understand rules

Sorry. I'll try again probably with a repeat.
Spar

 

[Andy Fox]

Craps

as in the casino game, obviously...

 

[Black Hole]

Scraps

 

[RobH1]

Crass

 

[Trev]

Scrags

 

[prpr]

Which takes us neatly back to:
Grass

Different seed required

 

[RobH1]

ok, on from Trev

Crags

 

[Black Hole]

Passé

Hmm. Is é the same letter as e? As we have carried on, I suppose it is.

It is if you're English. Not if you are French. But who cares about them?
I wondered if anybody was going to start an 'argument' about that. But BH didn't. I feel let down.

I could have buzzed on that - there ain't no accents in English words! But what the heck...

Please can anybody explain why Citroën, presumably a French name, has an umlaut (a German accent)? I know I wasn't very good at it, but I did French at school and the only accents I recall were acute, grave, circumflex, and cedilla.

 

[Black Hole]

Sags (neither a valid successor nor unique)

Cigars

 

[RobH1]

Agarics

Only one more word, I think, then poof!... nada.

 

[Black Hole]

OK, so you win... ... but if we take an alternative path:

Cigars

Gastric

 

[RobH1]

Racist