Comments on: Guardian 24176/Brendan - polyglot

By: ilancaron

ilancaron — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 17:58:25 +0000

Stuart I suspect you’re right that Brendan intended TAW to sound like Greek “tau” - I guess my Hebrew experiment was unwarranted after all (though in my defense the American Heritage dictionary has TAW as a spelling of TAV, the Hebrew letter… so you can see why I was confused).

Any Greek scholars who can confirm the pronuncation of TAU?

By: Stuart

Stuart — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 10:02:39 +0000

The Greek Tau can be pronounced either way (as in “Ouch” or as in “Sore”). At least according to my A-level physics teacher - he may have been wrong of course.

By: Simply_simon

Simply_simon — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 06:57:16 +0000

The old knight is Sir Kay, who was one of the first knights of the round table, therefore - O Kay.

By: owenjonesuk

owenjonesuk — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 15:45:12 +0000

re 24 across: “love, honour and obey” is part of the C of E marriage ceremony, although only for the woman (I think the man was meant to love, honour and cherish). Nowadays people often opt to miss out the bit about the woman obeying the man.

Good crossword - I liked the theme a lot.

By: Colin Blackburn

Colin Blackburn — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 14:08:14 +0000

I saw the English and Greek letters but the Hebrew ones passed me by. I just assumed he hadn’t managed to make every entry thematic.