I Paper 2151

[mikey4444]

6d.....Very substantial binging aboard when at sea...(13)

I think this must be BROBDINGNAGIA...anagram of binging aboard, but I am now having doubts !

[Neveracrossword]

I think your spelling could be a bit awry?

[fiction-factory]

Brobdingnagian means giant

[fiction-factory]

From Gulliver's Travels

[aelmpvw]

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=brobdingnagian+definition&;spell=1&sa=X&;ved=0ahUKEwi79e-K0rHYAhVMLcAKHTwEDmQQvwUIJigA&biw=1366&;bih=637

[mikey4444]

BROBDINGNAGIA is a genus of fungi, according to my dictionary.

[fiction-factory]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brobdingnagia
sort of fungus!

[mikey4444]

The answer is only 13 letters, and BROBDINGNAGIAN has 14 !

[Tilly2]

setter error?

[aelmpvw]

i suspect a setter's error, 'very substantial' would require an 'n' at the end of your answer

[fiction-factory]

Or does rossword have speacial instructions of the type I hate (eg omit a letter)

[mikey4444]

Could be Tilly !

The difficulty is that it interferes with 15a, which I have seen in Another Place as CINERAMA ( Manic flicks capturing historic time in Hollywood technology )

[mikey4444]

I am going to post over in Another Place, to see if they agree with setter error !

[aelmpvw]

cinerama must be right

[goodgoalie]

Mikey, Chambers has BROBDIGNAGIAN (erron), so I think PHI must be using that spelling. Does that fit with the other answers?

[mikey4444]

BROBDIGNAGIAN seems to be the correct word I was looking for !

[Neveracrossword]

... I hoped my nudge would be enough...

[mikey4444]

GG....yes, it does ....looks like an American spelling, although why a British newspaper should use American spellings, rather than the correct English ones is beyond me !

[aelmpvw]

it also begs the question as to why there are alternative spellings for an imaginary country :-)

[Spoffy]

Looks like an error to me. Swift clearly spelt the name 'Brobdingnag' and while Chambers 2016 doesn't list 'brobdignagian' at all, OED clearly shows it as 'Erroneous' rather than as any sort of valid variant.

[mikey4444]

aelmpvw...it may be the way that the book was published in America in the first place !

Didn't someone once say that 'England and America are two countries divided by a common language'.....Bernard Shaw I think !