8/13
Summary
| D | W | A | R | F | S |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| W | I | D | E | L | Y |
| A | D | A | G | E | S |
| R | E | G | R | E | T |
| F | L | E | E | C | E |
| S | Y | S | T | E | M |
? ? ?
First of all, the plural of dwarf is dwarves.
Actually, look it up, I don’t think so
and, second of all?
I’m trying to work through this one still, so it may be a little before I jump in with my thoughts.
second of all, word problems frustrate the hell out of me.
struggling with this one. Figure I’ll give it more than my standard 2 minutes to see if I can actually solve it.
Correct!
I peeked at DeepPurples spoiler and that gave me one word. I was able to figure out where that word went, and that helped everything else fall into place.
Summary
Apparently it can be either dwarfs or dwarves.
DWARF Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
Same here
yeah, well Walt Disney agrees with you so I guess I am insolent for no good reason.
It just sounds like “knifes” or “shelfs” or “leafs”. Back in my DnD days, we used “dwarves”
If you had asked me before searching online, I would have greed with you DeepPurple.
Modern English has two plurals for the word
Summary
dwarf : dwarfs and dwarves . Dwarfs remains the most commonly employed plural. The minority plural dwarves was recorded as early as 1818. However, it was later popularized by the fiction of philologist and legendarium author J. R. R. Tolkien, originating as a hypercorrective mistake. It was employed by Tolkien since some time before 1917.[4] Regarding his use of this plural, Tolkien wrote in 1937, “I am afraid it is just a piece of private bad grammar, rather shocking in a philologist; but I shall have to go with it”.
8/13
Summary
DWARFS
WIDELY
ADAGES
REGRET
FLEECE
SYSTEM
This was fun!
Curious if anyone had any words that they were able to make that didn’t fit in the grid. For me the first word I found was the right word for each set of letters.
me too, I found it easiest from bottom up.
Funny, I went from the top down. Figuring out the first word helped me a lot because then you have the first letter of all of the words.
That was the first word I figured out, because as you look down the list, that one has basically no other option. And I would have thought the same about the plurals, but knew that is what they intended, regardless of whether it was right.
I just checked with an anagram solver - only one word had multiple scrambles [dewily
Summary
]dewily)
[widely]
[wieldy]
Huh. I would have thought they had put more words in there with multiple scrambles.
I looked at the placed letter, was in only two of the clues and I saw it pretty quickly