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Aramis, try English cryptic crosswords. Because they don't have as many checked lights they can have a much wider range of words.
Isn't coral pink a shade of lipstick?
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Welcome aBoard, BranS. Glad you decided to join us.
So that now I can at last go back to page 6 and Thank Consuelo for the welcome I got.Which I should have done in the first place.So; Thanks again in cadmium red /light! For I'm glad too I did.
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do you have access to a pantone color set or book?
it is color 19-1518
Sorry,I do a lot of posting, struck by enthousiasm. I think I can get it at the American Bookstore. All this pantone talk makes me wonder.
Puce, the french word for flea soundwise can't be rhymed neither to ruse nor juice. The english sound goes djooss or roozze, but puce gives the sound of a strong uuuu.Accent on the second part of the word.The sound of it is not there in english.
You say culture, but the french and the dutch say cultuuuuur.And leave the j out of it. Lips practically closed like when you whistle.
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Puce, the french word for flea soundwise can't be rhymed neither to ruse nor juice.
Well, the English word puce is pronounced /'pjUs/. And, isn't the French vowel here a closed front rounded one /y/ rather than a close back rounded /u/ one? /'pti 'pys/
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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Puce, the french word for flea soundwise can't be rhymed neither to ruse nor juice.
Well, the English word puce is pronounced /'pjUs/. And, isn't the French vowel here a closed front rounded one /y/ rather than a close back rounded /u/ one? /'pti 'pys/
Sorry for causing this misunderstanding and very well you noticed something was wrong. One sentence:
'Accent on the second part of the word', ended up at the wrong place.
This was referring to culture---cultuuuuur and had to come after that one, but somehow the little devil jumped. Nothing to do with puce, which is a one-accent word. Just a one syllable-sound.
Some sounds are hard to be put in words. Whistle like someone who can't whistle and you more or less have the french, dutch, german U and UU. Very uncomfortable.
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Whistle like someone who can't whistle and you more or less have the french, dutch, german U and UU. Very uncomfortable.
Yes, i when i was learning french, the nun would come round and gently pinch our cheeks --not hard enough to hurt--except if we had been practicing our french R's and U's --then our cheek muscles were tender (because to make those sounds correctly, we had to exersize and use facial muscles not normal used in English (and certain not used in how NYer's speak english!)
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Aramis, try English cryptic crosswords. Because they don't have as many checked lights they can have a much wider range of words.
Not grasping what 'checked lights' are about but some of those Brit puzzles are quite challenging. Never saw one that suggested Elmer Fudd was a pig, either.  [Not making this up, really!] As Fromage suggested, there should be an 'Angry Mob with Torches Out to Get Bad Crossword Writers' club.
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Yes, i when i was learning french, the nun would come round and gently pinch our cheeks --not hard enough to hurt--except if we had been practicing our french R's and U's --then our cheek muscles were tender (because to make those sounds correctly, we had to exersize and use facial muscles not normal used in English (and certain not used in how NYer's speak english!)
Good story!I can see a composition of black,white and many coral pink cheeks . 'The progress of our french students depends litterally on their malleability.' 
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Aramis, try English cryptic crosswords. Because they don't have as many checked lights they can have a much wider range of words.
Not grasping what 'checked lights' are about but some of those Brit puzzles are quite challenging. Never saw one that suggested Elmer Fudd was a pig, either. [Not making this up, really!] As Fromage suggested, there should be an 'Angry Mob with Torches Out to Get Bad Crossword Writers' club.
Cheese! Some people. Anyway, "checked lights" refers to the fact that in your standard USn puzzle every letter is part of both a down word and an across word. In your standard Brit puzzle (and what we USns call cryptics) about half the letters are only in a down word or an across word.
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The lights are the spaces you write in (as opposed to the darks?). Checked lights are the ones used for across words and down words (so you can check your answer). See: http://www.bryson.ltd.uk/glossary.html
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