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Wednesday, June 15, 2005
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Boggle your mind
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“Dost.”
“That’s spelled with a ‘u’.”
“No, that’s a different kind of dust.”
“D-o-s-t is not a word.”
“It most certainly is too.”
“Use it in a sentence.”
“Dost not the sun rise smiling when fair at even she sets?”
“Oh sure, if you’re gonna talk like you just came out of King Lear.”
“English is English, 16th century or otherwise and “dost” is a word.”
My family just discovered a new game. Boggle. It’s cool, but it induces a lot of arguments. (Especially when I’m used to reading Shakespeare, Austen and Henty while someone else reads Hardy Boys and comics. But it is a pretty fun game for those that like word games. There’re these little dice with letters on them that you shake up in a box, then take the lid off and start the timer. Everyone writes down as many words as they can find before the timer runs out. Then you call off the words you have and score points for ones that no one else found. But you have to be really good at word games. Or you get into arguments. |
posted by cori
6/15/2005 04:49:00 PM
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just for the record, I have not argued during this game. It is new to some in our family but not all of us.
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"Dost" is a word - albeit, an extinct one. So there is a foundation for both sides of the argument. Always remember that it is only to be used in the second person as an archaic form of our modern equivilent "do."
Any qestions? Take it up with Random House's 2001 Webster's Unabriged Ditionary (Second Edition)
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Derek, I think the modern equivalent is 'does', isn't it? Or would that be 'doth'?
Jess, I sympathize. But I don't know how much I can sympathize with someone whose Scattergories scores consists of getting two points for "Del Monte". :)
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I hope you weren't talking about me, because I don't play Boggle, Scrabble, Scattergories, or any of the other word games.
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just for the record, I have not argued during this game. It is new to some in our family but not all of us.