September 12 2011

Word of the Week: Futhorc

FUTHORC [FOO-thahrk] – runic alphabet used by Anglo-Saxons [The name is a rough acronym of the alphabet’s first six letters]. The warrior’s name was inscribed in futhorc along the hilt.

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SK — 12 September at 01:38AM

First Fleet captain imprisoned biographer who lost a collection of old letters from England

SK — 12 September at 02:00AM

Inside the footy club, you hammer God-forsaken old characters

SK — 12 September at 02:44AM

Played half-court without L.A. or Celtic signings

RobT — 12 September at 07:39AM

Base for Spooner's muscle tine.

JPR — 12 September at 08:21AM

Cut 'H' for bizarre alphabet

RobT — 12 September at 08:27AM

'If' author starts off 'Captain Courageous' opening with historical characters.

RobT — 12 September at 08:28AM

'If' author starts off 'Captains Courageous' opening with historical characters.

RobT — 12 September at 09:05AM

Future horcrux finishes off medieval spell ingredients?

Sam — 12 September at 09:16AM

Borrowing your ‘old characters’ definition SK:

Old characters, half-full, chortling about the fish that got away

Boniface — 12 September at 09:26AM

Ancient characters from tumble-down hut nestled in somewhat backwards old farm (7)

RM — 12 September at 10:00AM

Beagnoth's knife carving regular fruit, hot or cold

— 12 September at 10:19AM

Tasteless cuss almost includes "God!" in fifth century letters

Em — 12 September at 10:20AM

Sorry, that was me.

Tasteless cuss almost includes "God!" in fifth century letters

Em — 12 September at 10:38AM

Old Futhark's daughter was no end of trouble for the Corfu party

Can 'caused' link def and wordplay? Because that would make the surface read better.

RM — 12 September at 11:57AM

@Em: "make" is a common link word (makes or made would work in the surface here), though I think it usually follows the wordplay, and I'm not sure if there's an equivalent for following the definition.

Boniface — 12 September at 01:10PM

Obscure fourth century characters! (7)

JPR — 12 September at 01:57PM

nice one bon

..for Hutch ditched Huggy at first, weird old characters!

DA2 — 12 September at 02:03PM

Tough to ignore Boniface's trim elegance with that last one, though SK's Celtic signings is rather dazzling too.

JPR — 12 September at 02:09PM

[a tribute to Gerald Durrell]:
Theodore starts Greek-style in re-imagined Corfu -- crazy old characters!

JPR — 12 September at 02:26PM

oops didnt need the 'crazy'
...

Uh... Croft Original: sign of ancient writer

SK — 12 September at 04:28PM

Nice one Sam...your old characters are much smoother than mine :)

JPR — 15 September at 09:09AM

I don't think Celtic goes with Anglo-Saxon? werent they opposites like Celtic and Rangers?