Today's crossword was a learning experience. We discovered that paeon is a real word and not an error. Indri is a lemur in Madagascar and the River Erne is in Ireland. Previously, I had thought that an Erne was a sea eagle, which it is, but knew of no other Erne.
Just incidentally, we knew that the Feast of Esther is Purim but were not sure it fell in the month of Adar. Now we know.
And just so no one has to look it up, paeon is a metrical foot composed of four syllables: one long and three short. Only one of them is stressed.
But, you knew that . . .
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So, a paeon is not some poor lout working out in the fields for no pay and no hope of advancement. Okay. Learned something.
Now, what's a metrical foot of four syllables? And why would one want to stress only one of them? Seems like they'd all like to feel equally important.
Today's crossword like any other crossword really stressed out my brain power.
THE ITALIAN QUESTION
w h y
o n e
u
l
d o
a n o t h e r
e
1 Across: Query
1 Down: Shoulda ____ Coulda
2 Across: Before number two.
5 Across: No can ___.
6 Across: One thing or ___.
5 Down: ___ thing or another.
ANSWERS:
Why
Would-a
One
Do
Another
One
You made some excellent points there. I did a search on the topic and almost not found any specific details on other sites, but then happy to be here, really, thanks.
- Lucas
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