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brendan

3rd March 2019, 22:47
Simon, you're a star. I was fixated on the plural referring to the 'metal' but, as you say, it's referring to the "components" of the word :)
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jaffra

5th March 2019, 19:30
Late in the day, and nothing to do with the crossword as such, but 8D and the discussion about it (for which I needed the hints), reminded me of a bit of doggerel that I learned from my Scottish mother many decades ago:


See that fly upon the wall?
He ain't got no clothes at all
He ain't got no shirt
He ain't got no shimmy-shirt
Brrr! Him's cold!

I think shimmy-shirt is local dialect, related to "semmit", which is a Scottish name for a vest or under-shirt. I think we pronounced it more like "simmit", but that is by the by.

The spell-checker is a pain, of course, in dealing with dialect words.
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