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15:59 UK time, Friday, 4 January 2008
Re the : "za" (meaning CENSORED SO AS NOT TO SPOIL THE FUN) was used in Neal Stephenson's book Snowcrash as early as 1993, when the 13-year-old who wrote Teen Talk wasn't even born.
Justin Rowles, Winchester, UK
The OED has "za" for CENSORED SO AS NOT TO SPOIL THE FUN) dated to 1968, so it's not just out of date but possibly starting to go off a bit.
Rob Foreman, London, UK
Evidently Paper Monitor is not wasting as much time as some of us on a certain social networking site or they would have discovered the Scrabble application - which recognises the word "za", thus enabling oldies like me to answer today's DMQ correctly.
I'll get tamocy.
Pix6, Vienna, Austria
Re : Did anyone else think this was a business story about a brewery trying to take over a football club? Maybe I've been working in the City too long.
Jo, London, UK
Oh my god! Oh my god! I just scored 7 out of 7 on . This is a proud moment.
Louise, Oxford
I just got six in the . Would anyone like to join me for a celebratory drinking-into-oblivion to make tomorrow disappear and help me believe that there really are only six days in a week?
David Richerby, Leeds, UK
So according to this story the snow on the weather. Silly me, I thought it was because it was January and we get snow in January.
Pete W, Oban
Re piers being great (Paper Monitor): my dad has recently embarked on a semi-mission - dare I say... crusade? - to go to every single pier in the UK, or visit the site of what might have once been a pier before nature took back the sea. The terrible thing is you find yourself, as the dutiful offspring, remembering snippets of information from such field trips and casually slipping them into conversation. So don't laugh, lest it happen to you one day.
Sarah B, Southampton
Since when has "ruggedised" '() been a word in the English language? Surely the writer could have spent a few minutes coming up with an alternative way to state that the laptops in question were built to survive harsher environments? Come on ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳, there are standards after all.
Paul, Chelmsford
Hello and Happy New Year! When is the caption competition coming back, now that the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ has been given the partial all-clear to host competitions once again? Looking forward to your response.
Helen Cumberbatch, London, England
Kip (Wednesday's letters) and Sam (Thursday's letters), stop it! All these dreadful puns are starting to really get my goat.
Adam, London, UK
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