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August 08 2011
URSPRACHE [OOR-sprah-KAH] – hypothetical or foundation language, often reconstructed from related languages on record. [From German, ur – earliest, and Sprache, speech.] Ancient Norse is the Ursprache of the modern Scandinavian tongues.
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Boniface — 08 August at 02:05AM
Purchaser falls for legendary patter (9)
DA — 08 August at 06:19AM
Hard to resist the Purchaser Anagram (one of life's sweet flukes)...
Yet who will compose the best clue with that same blessing - or take another option entirely?
RK — 08 August at 07:24AM
Church essentially preaches reformation dropping the extreme language of old
Criseyde — 08 August at 07:36AM
Ancient site's forerunning southern university extinguished revolutionary original language.
SK — 08 August at 07:59AM
Hard to top purchaser, but how about something for the start of a nervy week on world markets...
Derivative talk leads US rating (by S&P) to reach disaster
RobT — 08 August at 09:27AM
Cooked urchin, bent spear, in primordial soup
Boniface — 08 August at 09:52AM
Shattered spur - real pain causing vulgar language, one assumes?
Nice topicality SK.
Sam — 08 August at 10:02AM
Acephalous usurper worried about central cache of early speeches
philth — 08 August at 12:50PM
Old tongue of vulgar crusader epoch decoded.
Criseyde — 08 August at 04:49PM
Earlier ones got munched:
Ancient city's superior Latin leaders extinguished revolutionary original language.
RobT — 08 August at 05:08PM
Ancient Norse nurse arcs her up.
Criseyde — 08 August at 05:16PM
She-Bear buried priest longing for ancestral communication.
Criseyde — 08 August at 05:21PM
oops, mistake in the last one, withdrawn
RobT — 08 August at 05:36PM
Aitch baits up while flies around language.
RobT — 08 August at 05:37PM
Ouch...my bad. Here it is correct:
Aitch baits up while Midge flies around...language!
SK — 08 August at 08:12PM
Scary day...time for a breather which made me think about tidying up this morning's offering-
Language of derivatives prompts US rating (by S&P) to reach crisis
JPR — 13 August at 02:44PM
Confused cat purrs, he drops tip of tasty old tongue
JPR — 13 August at 03:11PM
Old tongue shows when you are so proudly starting to kiss Ms Weisz without leave
JPR — 13 August at 08:33PM
Curse Oprah! No love tangle in first lingo
JPR — 14 August at 06:04PM
Half Urdu/toneless Esperanto hybrid assimilates Czech endings: an ancient language