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Syzzie: You really got my hopes up. I subscribe to The Atlantic, both online and hardcopy, and I thought I might have been missing something all these years by not looking for the Puzzler in the online edition. In 2005 there was an announcement about the setters' retirement, but you posted a puzzle from 2008, which I certainly never saw. I logged in and keyed in "puzzler", and what came up was the archive I posted above. Very mysterious. Where did the 2008 puzzle come from? I do recall that for some time it was only available online; even that was a disappointment.
Kiwikid: I clearly remember having the same experience with ODOUR! One of those epiphanies that cause you to whack your forehead.

Les40,

I keep revisiting your earlier post where you say Wendy,
that's a surprise, I have never heard Loo, Looe or lieu pronounced that way. Up here in the North-West of England we pronounce all of them the same, with a WHO sound like Few, Dew and Blue.

Surely you don't pronounce Few, Dew and Blue in the same way....?

Right then Wendy, We are on the same wave length here I hope. maybe a very slight difference actually
In the North-West we pronounce Few, Dew, Pew, New the same as Snooker "cue" And Loo, Looe, Leiu the same as in Boo! and "Two" and "Zoo"
Is that now more acceptable for "You"

Hi Aristophanes
What would the average Massachu..ian mean by " I'm mad about my flat"
Yours ( in a sense )
Thea Hope ur having a nice day. QQQUITE cold here -1(centigrade).{:-}=8++++

Thrilled about my apartment only if I'm an anglophile, angry about the condition of my tire (tyre) if I've driven over a nail (even if I'm an anglophile).

And if I said it with the former meaning it would be fairly safe to assume that I wasn't, uh, overly masculine.

The word is Massachusettians, which is why we usually call ourselves Bay Staters. Other Americans call us Massholes.

Good one, aristo.
Tsk, tsk ! The first comment would not be PC in Canada.

I found that 2008 puzzle with a Google search "the atlantic crossword". Seems to be an orphan.

New thread for the above:
http://www.crosswordsolver.org/forum/213878/the-atlantic-crossword

Re regional spelling:

If you use the Firefox browser, you can add spell-check dictionaries for over 100 languages, and variants.
These can be used in your email, at least with Gmail. (highly recommended)

Right-click in the email text box to get the menu.
Hover over Languages.
Left-click Add dictionaries.

You will get this page:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/language-tools/

Scroll down to the English variants.

Interesting. The secure https token does not generate an auto-link here.

No worries. This should:
http://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/language-tools/

I once spent a hilarious evening in a bar in the USA with three American ladies. I tried to explain why the name `Randy` could never be used in the UK, and why the film `Free Willy` caused such ribald comments. And how bemused my tall macho son was to be called `cute`.
The barman later said we were better than TV.
M.