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oldmisery | 09:06 Tue 13th Apr 2010 | Crosswords
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Stuck on two,
12d : Get used to popular river. I- - -E
15a : Complete works follow man in clever tactic. O- - - R-
Having a mental block, any help please.
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Inure?
15a oeuvre
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Thank you both for your speedy response, spot on.
Yes, ouvre, (from manouvre ).
Incidentally bibblebub- is my memory playing tricks or was this spelt manœvre (with o and e joined together) when i was at school?
oops, oeuvre frm manœuvre
...from !
factor30 - I can't remember spelling it differently in the past but it's not a word that crops up often enough to be memorable. Doesn't mean that it didn't happen.
You are right, factor30. They were called diphthongs (ae, oe, etc). They are largely ignored now because of modern word-processing methods.
I never wore a dipthong in the 60s but I can remember words such as Encyclopædia with the a and e joined together as æ. Other examples of œ were onomatopœia and fœtus The symbols are available on Word but I never see them used. It does look a little odd /pretentious now to join letters together.
Incidentally I hate the US spelling of manoeuvre which is maneuver - I think that does look odd.
I can also remember when we used hyphens in to-day and to-morrow. That certainly looks odd now.

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