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Govende – a game of wordplay, puns, leaps of thought and trivia

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LadyHonoriaDedlock Tue 18-Oct-22 17:25:19

It's pronounced "Goo-vain". Allegedly.

It started about 25 years ago in a serious online forum about language and grammar when somebody asked seriously about the correct name of the @ symbol. The thread then continued to discuss the formal names of other symbols until it diverged from the original point:

>>>>>> What's a pilcrow?
>>>>> "¶" is a pilcrow. What's an octothorp?
>>>> "#" is an octothorp. What's a virgule?
>>> A virgule is an old musical instrument. What's a spinet
>>A spinet is a small grove of trees. What's a copse?

And so on. It's been going on in various parts of the net since being evicted from the original forum, and has spawned many new threads.

Answer a question imaginatively, ask a "What is" question connected to your answer.

Shall I start?

What's a knees-up?

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henetha Tue 20-Dec-22 17:50:09

Log is what captains of ships have. Even Star Trek captains like Kirk.
What is Kirk?

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swampy1961 Tue 20-Dec-22 19:17:59

Another daft Scottish word for church!

What is Scottish?

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Retread Wed 21-Dec-22 04:59:37

Scottish is when you are skittish in Scotland because you are pretending to understand the local dialects! What is a dialect?

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MrsKen33 Wed 21-Dec-22 05:09:46

Dialect is when you have to phone to select something, perhaps from the menu at the Chinese take-away.

What is menu?

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nanna8 Wed 21-Dec-22 05:48:04

Menu is an Old English version of 'me and you' before they had standardized spelling.

What is spelling?

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BlueBelle Wed 21-Dec-22 06:21:50

Ahh now spelling that’s when the witches call to their black cats “bring that spell in it’s getting wet out there in the rain “
What is rain ?

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Squiffy Wed 21-Dec-22 12:17:27

Rain is what a Monarch does after they’ve been crowned (or coronated - as seen in another thread!).

What is crowned?

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Mollygo Wed 21-Dec-22 12:18:31

A way of preserving the use of a damaged tooth.
What’s a tooth?

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biglouis Wed 21-Dec-22 12:50:48

If you have a sweet tooth you may get very fat.

What is fat?

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Retread Wed 21-Dec-22 13:50:34

Fat (like butter) is what makes everything tastier. What is tastier?

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MrsKen33 Wed 21-Dec-22 17:25:11

The very opposite of nastier

What is very?

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swampy1961 Wed 21-Dec-22 20:47:55

A shopping catalogue.

What's a catalogue?

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LadyHonoriaDedlock Wed 21-Dec-22 21:00:27

A catalogue is a perch for a sleeping cat

What's a perch?

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swampy1961 Wed 21-Dec-22 21:16:45

It's a fish that likes to pose on a stick.

What's a pose?

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biglouis Wed 21-Dec-22 23:59:39

Sriking a pose is what models do to display couture clothes.

What is couture?

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MrsKen33 Thu 22-Dec-22 01:35:03

Something most of us can’t afford.

What is afford ?

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nanna8 Thu 22-Dec-22 05:25:59

Afford is a shallow part of a river that you can wade across without drowning?
What is drowning?

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Mollygo Thu 22-Dec-22 07:07:01

Drowning out is when the background music is so loud you can’t hear the actors speak.
What is an actor?

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swampy1961 Thu 22-Dec-22 11:26:25

Someone who impersonates a character they are supposed to be.

What's a character?

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biglouis Thu 22-Dec-22 12:54:19

An imitation of a person in which certain characteristics are exaggerated to create a comic or grotesque effect.

What is grotesque?

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Retread Thu 22-Dec-22 15:17:27

Grotesque is a discotheque for people who are still growing (say, pre-teens). What is growing?

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biglouis Fri 23-Dec-22 09:15:48

Gro-wing is a painful condition which adolescent birds can get.

What is adolsecent?

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Mollygo Fri 23-Dec-22 09:52:19

Adolescent means you reached the age where you begin to wake up and smell the roses.
What are roses?

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swampy1961 Fri 23-Dec-22 15:08:39

Roses are red!!

What is red?

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Squiffy Fri 23-Dec-22 15:53:50

A newspaper is read and is black and white as well.

What is a newspaper?

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