Baker's Dozen II (Part 1)

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Weird language quirks

  1. WWW (9 syllables) is short for World Wide Web (3 syllables)
  2. Rough, dough, through, cough, and bough - none of these rhyme
  3. “Buckle” can mean either to collapse or hold something together
  4. The little three letter word, “run” has at least 645 distinctly different meanings
  5. Ghoti = fish?
  6. "I before E, except after C". Truthfully, there are something like 923 exceptions to this ‘rule’, and only 44 words that observe it.

-“BB”-

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Weird language quirks

  1. WWW (9 syllables) is short for World Wide Web (3 syllables)
  2. Rough, dough, through, cough, and bough - none of these rhyme
  3. “Buckle” can mean either to collapse or hold something together
  4. The little three letter word, “run” has at least 645 distinctly different meanings
  5. Ghoti = fish?
  6. "I before E, except after C". Truthfully, there are something like 923 exceptions to this ‘rule’, and only 44 words that observe it.
  7. Many, like me, believe that “unique” cannot be properly qualified - something is either unique, or it is not. Others disagree.
8066

Weird language quirks

  1. WWW (9 syllables) is short for World Wide Web (3 syllables)
  2. Rough, dough, through, cough, and bough - none of these rhyme
  3. “Buckle” can mean either to collapse or hold something together
  4. The little three letter word, “run” has at least 645 distinctly different meanings
  5. Ghoti = fish?
  6. "I before E, except after C" . Truthfully, there are something like 923 exceptions to this ‘rule’, and only 44 words that observe it.
  7. Many, like me, believe that “unique” cannot be properly qualified - something is either unique, or it is not. Others disagree.
  8. “Hauling ass” and “dragging ass” have opposite meanings.
8067

Weird language quirks

  1. WWW (9 syllables) is short for World Wide Web (3 syllables)
  2. Rough, dough, through, cough, and bough - none of these rhyme
  3. “Buckle” can mean either to collapse or hold something together
  4. The little three letter word, “run” has at least 645 distinctly different meanings
  5. Ghoti = fish?
  6. "I before E, except after C" . Truthfully, there are something like 923 exceptions to this ‘rule’, and only 44 words that observe it.
  7. Many, like me, believe that “unique” cannot be properly qualified - something is either unique, or it is not. Others disagree.
  8. “Hauling ass” and “dragging ass” have opposite meanings.
  9. “Fight with” can mean either to fight on the same side as someone or to fight against someone.
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Weird language quirks

  1. WWW (9 syllables) is short for World Wide Web (3 syllables)
  2. Rough, dough, through, cough, and bough - none of these rhyme
  3. “Buckle” can mean either to collapse or hold something together
  4. The little three letter word, “run” has at least 645 distinctly different meanings
  5. Ghoti = fish?
  6. "I before E, except after C" . Truthfully, there are something like 923 exceptions to this ‘rule’, and only 44 words that observe it.
  7. Many, like me, believe that “unique” cannot be properly qualified - something is either unique, or it is not. Others disagree.
  8. “Hauling ass” and “dragging ass” have opposite meanings.
  9. “Fight with” can mean either to fight on the same side as someone or to fight against someone.
  10. The words in the phrase “good food” don’t rhyme.
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Weird language quirks

  1. WWW (9 syllables) is short for World Wide Web (3 syllables)
  2. Rough, dough, through, cough, and bough - none of these rhyme
  3. “Buckle” can mean either to collapse or hold something together
  4. The little three letter word, “run” has at least 645 distinctly different meanings
  5. Ghoti = fish?
  6. "I before E, except after C" . Truthfully, there are something like 923 exceptions to this ‘rule’, and only 44 words that observe it.
  7. Many, like me, believe that “unique” cannot be properly qualified - something is either unique, or it is not. Others disagree.
  8. “Hauling ass” and “dragging ass” have opposite meanings.
  9. “Fight with” can mean either to fight on the same side as someone or to fight against someone.
  10. The words in the phrase “good food” don’t rhyme.
  11. Contronyms like dust, clip, overlook, sanction, and finished have conflicting meanings.
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Weird language quirks

  1. WWW (9 syllables) is short for World Wide Web (3 syllables)
  2. Rough, dough, through, cough, and bough - none of these rhyme
  3. “Buckle” can mean either to collapse or hold something together
  4. The little three letter word, “run” has at least 645 distinctly different meanings
  5. Ghoti = fish?
  6. "I before E, except after C" . Truthfully, there are something like 923 exceptions to this ‘rule’, and only 44 words that observe it.
  7. Many, like me, believe that “unique” cannot be properly qualified - something is either unique, or it is not. Others disagree.
  8. “Hauling ass” and “dragging ass” have opposite meanings.
  9. “Fight with” can mean either to fight on the same side as someone or to fight against someone.
  10. The words in the phrase “good food” don’t rhyme.
  11. Contronyms like dust, clip, overlook, sanction, and finished have conflicting meanings.
  12. Irregular verbs: sing sang sung but not bring brang brung
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Weird language quirks

  1. WWW (9 syllables) is short for World Wide Web (3 syllables)
  2. Rough, dough, through, cough, and bough - none of these rhyme
  3. “Buckle” can mean either to collapse or hold something together
  4. The little three letter word, “run” has at least 645 distinctly different meanings
  5. Ghoti = fish?
  6. "I before E, except after C" . Truthfully, there are something like 923 exceptions to this ‘rule’, and only 44 words that observe it.
  7. Many, like me, believe that “unique” cannot be properly qualified - something is either unique, or it is not. Others disagree.
  8. “Hauling ass” and “dragging ass” have opposite meanings.
  9. “Fight with” can mean either to fight on the same side as someone or to fight against someone.
  10. The words in the phrase “good food” don’t rhyme.
  11. Contronyms like dust, clip, overlook, sanction, and finished have conflicting meanings.
  12. Irregular verbs: sing sang sung but not bring brang brung
  13. Irregular plurals: can’t just add an ‘S’ as in cup/cups or fork/forks; there are countless exceptions such as goose/geese; mouse/mice; knife/knives; puppy/puppies, and moose/moose

"Triple Crown" Winners

  1. Seattle Slew

-“BB”-

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"Triple Crown" Winners

  1. Seattle Slew
  2. Affirmed
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Triple Crown Winners

  1. Seattle Slew
  2. Affirmed
  3. War Admiral
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Triple Crown Winners

  1. Seattle Slew
  2. Affirmed
  3. War Admiral
  4. Secretariat
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Triple Crown Winners

  1. Seattle Slew
  2. Affirmed
  3. War Admiral
  4. Secretariat
  5. American Pharoah
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Triple Crown Winners

  1. Seattle Slew
  2. Affirmed
  3. War Admiral
  4. Secretariat
  5. American Pharoah
  6. Justify
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Triple Crown Winners

  1. Seattle Slew
  2. Affirmed
  3. War Admiral
  4. Secretariat
  5. American Pharoah
  6. Justify
  7. Omaha
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Triple Crown Winners

  1. Seattle Slew
  2. Affirmed
  3. War Admiral
  4. Secretariat
  5. American Pharoah
  6. Justify
  7. Omaha
  8. Sir Barton
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Triple Crown Winners

  1. Seattle Slew
  2. Affirmed
  3. War Admiral
  4. Secretariat
  5. American Pharoah
  6. Justify
  7. Omaha
  8. Sir Barton
  9. Whirlaway
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Triple Crown Winners

  1. Seattle Slew
  2. Affirmed
  3. War Admiral
  4. Secretariat
  5. American Pharoah
  6. Justify
  7. Omaha
  8. Sir Barton
  9. Whirlaway
  10. Gallant Fox

I see that there are exactly 13 correct answers to this category - well chosen, BB!

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Triple Crown Winners

  1. Seattle Slew
  2. Affirmed
  3. War Admiral
  4. Secretariat
  5. American Pharoah
  6. Justify
  7. Omaha
  8. Sir Barton
  9. Whirlaway
  10. Gallant Fox
  11. Nijinsky

English Triple Crown winner

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Triple Crown Winners

  1. Seattle Slew
  2. Affirmed
  3. War Admiral
  4. Secretariat
  5. American Pharoah
  6. Justify
  7. Omaha
  8. Sir Barton
  9. Whirlaway
  10. Gallant Fox
  11. Nijinsky
  12. Count Fleet

An ancestor of American Pharoah, and ranked as one of the greatest American racehorses of the twentieth century, fifth on the Top 100 Racehorses of the 20th Century
And true, the original category didn’t say US Triple Crown. Trust Prof. P to “throw a spanner in the works” as they say in England.

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gkster wrote:
And true, the original category didn’t say US Triple Crown. Trust Prof. P to “throw a spanner in the works” as they say in England.

I didn’t specify US Triple Crown, because I didn’t know there was such a thing as an English Triple Crown until Prof. P. posted – so, he actually edumacated me, whether he intended to do so or not. Well done, sir!

You may now resume the game.

-“BB”-