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The first time I had even heard of Websters dictionary was Ella Fitzgerald singing "Too marvellous for words"


"You're much too much, and just too very very
To ever be, in Webster's dictionary
And so, I'm borrowing a love song from the birds
To tell you that you're marvellous
Too marvellous for words"

Hello, Ros!
I have just finished reading a Joanna Trollope novel, called "City of Friends".
I mention this because I found at the back of the book, a section entitled "Reading Group Guide"
It consists of a series of questions, and topics for discussion.
I thought they seemed very good and very appropriate to the book.
(I have never come across this before in a book I have read.)
And I thought of you, as I know you belong to a Book Club.
The main emphasis is on the depiction of female friendship and leads to the larger matter of feminism.
Working women and work / life balance?
There is a lot of scope for discussion!
I thought I would proffer it as a possible suggestion for your Book Club?
(Although I don't of course know how your book choices are decided, and it may not fall within the lines that you select)
Just a thought?

jazzy
Surely you remember the theme song from "The road to Morocco"?
"Like Webster's Dictionary, we're morocco-bound"

I had forgotten that Chris !

Hi, Rusty!
Ah yes, I am sorry...... bad punctuation is to blame there, I am afraid!
My abject apologies to "Meriam Websters!
All for want of few commas......
The sentence should have read
".......it can still be found online in such as Meriam-Webster, and other, hither- to unheard of, references .
This reminds me of "Eats, Shoots and Leaves: the Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation" by Lynne Truss!
Have you read this?
A hilarious book on the rules of punctuation.
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A panda walks into a café. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and proceeds to fire it at the other patrons.
"Why?" asks the confused, surviving waiter amidst the carnage, as the panda makes towards the exit.
The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife manual and tosses it over his shoulder.
"Well, I'm a panda," he says. "Look it up."
The waiter turns to the relevant entry in the manual and, sure enough, finds an explanation.
"Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves."
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Yes, , my husband is doing nicely, thank you!
I sent him to see the GP on Friday, and he was duly dispatched to the hospital for a sputum test and a chest Xray .
They are very careful since his lobectomy.
He is now on antibiotics.
I didn't go to the doctors...so I am still coughing and spluttering,!.......but yes, my nubucks will be out tomorrow!

Hi elle
Yes,thank you, that is a good suggestion. I have read quite a few books with questions for Book Clubs at the end. We have just chosen next year's books at one club I go to, for the second we chose 5 each at the beginning and haven't anywhere like got through them yet!

Hello, Elle!
Goodness, you are hard work today!
It is "MeRRiam"!
No, I have not read that book....but, I have heard of it!
That was very sensible of your GP sending your husband off for treatment.
Our weather has turned into a lovely "arvo"!
So, I went for a bit of a dander.
I am going to have a go at my puzzle now.

Hi, Rusty!
Oops!
Well, never mind......
After all, as Shakespeare says "What's in a name.....?"
I did the main Cryptic puzzle this morning.
I don't think there was anything of particular note today?
Apart from the terminology in 17a...
I didn't know the expression, but it was easy enough to arrive at the answer.
Now, I think I need some fresh air........
I shall wrap up warm and go out and sweep up the leaves........

Hello, Elle!
22d, I have "Suppe" as my answer, yet the lad's name is "von Suppe".
Is that OK, think you? Does not seem right to me.
Anne Bradford has "Suppe", so what does the "von" mean, and should it be part of his surname?
1a, 5a, and 18d, are new to me.
Not a bad puzzle, though.
Yes, it is a bit chilly, you'll need a fleece!

"von" is "from " I think rusty (like "da" in Italian). The Scots equivalent would be "of that ilk", possibly?