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The Sator square is arranged as a 5 × 5 grid consisting of five 5-letter words, thus totaling 25 characters. It uses 8 different Latin letters: 5 consonants (S, T, R, P, N) and 3 vowels (A, E, O). In some versions, the vertical and horizontal lines of the grid are also drawn, but in many cases, there are no such lines.
A word square is a type of acrostic. It consists of a set of words written out in a square grid, such that the same words can be read both horizontally and vertically. The number of words, which is equal to the number of letters in each word, is known as the "order" of the square. For example, this is an order 5 square:
Note that some words contain an ae which may not be written æ because the etymology is not from the Greek -αι-or Latin -ae-diphthongs. These include: In instances of aer (starting or within a word) when it makes the sound IPA [ɛə]/[eə] (air). Comes from the Latin āër, Greek ἀήρ. When ae makes the diphthong / eɪ / (lay) or / aɪ ...
Crosswordese is the group of words frequently found in US crossword puzzles but seldom found in everyday conversation. The words are usually short, three to five letters, with letter combinations which crossword constructors find useful in the creation of crossword puzzles, such as words that start or end with vowels (or both), abbreviations consisting entirely of consonants, unusual ...
5 points: K ×2; 8 points: J ×2, X ×2; 10 points: Q ×2, Z ×2; Super Scrabble contains more letters that are overlined and fewer letters that are underlined than would be obtained by combining two standard English sets.
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20 imperial fluid ounces (about 568 ml, 19.2 US fl oz or 6 ⁄ 5 US pt), pint of beer, lager or cider ("Pour us a pint") 16 US fluid ounces (about 473 ml, 16.65 imp fl oz or 5 ⁄ 6 imp pt) piss (on the piss) drinking heavily, going out for the purpose of drinking heavily (to piss off) to go away urine (usu. vulgar) urinate (usu. vulgar)
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