Never Mind The Full Stops - ep. 3 - 25 May 2006
Never Mind The Full Stops is a new panel quiz show on the use and abuse of the English language, hosted by Julian Fellowes and airing on Thursday nights on BBC4.
I find it a tad slow and enjoy recording it and playing it back at 1.5x speed.
I'll save you the trouble altogether and show you something that has challenged me during the last twenty minutes. You can have a go at the answers and post them as comments, or wait until tomorrow where I'll post them myself.
What is the plural of…
- roof
- cannon
- mongoose
- diagnosis
- ignoramus
- madame
- kibbutz
- octopus
Homophones
Fill in the blanks with words that sound the same but have different meanings (and are spelled differently):
- _____ won't find me in the village by the _____ tree, I'll be in the meadow feeding my _____.
- Already somewhat _____ , Sebastian's anger _____ when he _____ out of the window to see his tortoise escaping.
- "_____" said Angus. "_____ had a very nasty _____ infection."
- She looked _____-eyed at Antonio as she made _____ balls, but he ignored her. _____! She thought. "Why am I such a fool?"
- Don't mistake this iron _____ for a wooden _____, or the effect could be _____some.
Answers to the quiz above in tomorrow's post.
I'll probably regret admitting this in the morning, but I have also realised that Dave Gorman (one of the show's panelists) is sort of hot, in a scruffy Guy Ritchie kind of way. See the picture within this post.
Dave Gorman is so hot that he even has a whole website dedicated to photoshopped pictures of female celebrities with his face pasted on them.