Take A Jump, Benjamin
2 June, 2015
Currently enjoying the punctuation porn known as Between You & Me - Confessions of a Comma Queen - by Mary Norris. Recommended.
Not just for the grammar yarns, the 'tense' standoffs, but also the curious flashbacks to spelling reformers such as Noah Webster and Benjamin Franklin. In fact, Franklin lobbied hard for C, J, W and Y to be removed from the alphabet, making powwow and John Wayne all the more problematic.
This week's Storm would be tricky too, given that your answers must contain 3 of these letters at least. Hence such solutions as wacky and juicy are OK, Woy Woy and coccyx, yacht club and cowboy. My openers:
JOCKEY - Funny saddles cruel start for rider
[JOKEY around C]
CYCLONE - Candy replica a major blow
WHICH WAY - Outspoken spelling champ to assess Quo Vadis
Gentle Ben beginning. What else can we conjure?
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