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  • Anna

    Originally posted by Caliban View Post
    Northo! Long time, no etc etc... Swept back with a winner, it would seem! Welcome back.
    Northy, is it you? By 'eck as like Gladys, can we now discuss Corrie and t'whippets a' the foot of ower stairs?
    Edit: I was confusing Northender with Norfolk Born, who was a great Corrie fan. <doh> Silly me
    Last edited by Guest; 07-04-13, 13:20. Reason: mistaken identity!

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    • antongould
      Full Member
      • Nov 2010
      • 8782

      Originally posted by Northender View Post
      One of the nice things about German is that you can make up new compound words which look terribly authentic.
      My 'K' question, which I now realize I set prematurely, also has a something Germanic about it.....
      Is set of some possibly Germanic significance?

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      • Thropplenoggin
        Full Member
        • Mar 2013
        • 1587

        Originally posted by Northender View Post
        One of the nice things about German is that you can make up new compound words which look terribly authentic.
        My 'K' question, which I now realize I set prematurely, also has a something Germanic about it.....
        K as in Köchel catalogue (Mozart)?
        It loved to happen. -- Marcus Aurelius

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        • Nick Armstrong
          Host
          • Nov 2010
          • 26527

          Originally posted by Northender View Post
          One of the nice things about German is that you can make up new compound words which look terribly authentic.
          We played that game on another thread lately - can't find it now... I did rather a good one, I seem to recall
          "...the isle is full of noises,
          Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
          Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
          Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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          • ferneyhoughgeliebte
            Gone fishin'
            • Sep 2011
            • 30163

            Originally posted by Northender View Post
            One of the nice things about German is that you can make up new compound words which look terribly authentic.


            My 'K' question, which I now realize I set prematurely, also has a something Germanic about it.....
            Welcome back, Norths; excellent puzzle!
            [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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            • Northender

              Originally posted by antongould View Post
              Is set of some possibly Germanic significance?
              Not really - just a hint that the named composers - and others - set the same 'royal' text.

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              • amateur51

                Welcome back Norths - cloughie's around somewhere too but haven't seen him in here (tho' I have been away over the past two weekends)

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                • Northender

                  Time for a clue?
                  Monarch who might be a very long way North......

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                  • mercia
                    Full Member
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 8920

                    Originally posted by Northender View Post
                    the named composers - and others - set the same 'royal' text.
                    Der König in Thule - Liszt S.531, Schubert D367, Schumann op.67/1, Berlioz in The Damnation of Faust
                    Thule being a mythical (?) Northern land

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                    • Northender

                      Well done, mercs - they all set Goethe's poem. Are you going to set us an hell of an L? I believe the Romans dubbed the Northern Isles and/or Northern Scotland Ultima Thule.

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                      • antongould
                        Full Member
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 8782

                        Originally posted by mercia View Post
                        Der König in Thule - Liszt S.531, Schubert D367, Schumann op.67/1, Berlioz in The Damnation of Faust
                        Thule being a mythical (?) Northern land

                        No I think it's Wearside....

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                        • mercia
                          Full Member
                          • Nov 2010
                          • 8920

                          an L please to connect

                          some thespian flyers, the Roman goddess of fruit trees and a South-American caprice

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                          • Northender

                            Lambert (Constant) composed a ballet called 'Pomona' and a Peruvian Caprice.

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                            • mercia
                              Full Member
                              • Nov 2010
                              • 8920

                              Originally posted by Northender View Post
                              Lambert (Constant) composed a ballet called 'Pomona' and a Peruvian Caprice.
                              indeed

                              thespian flyers ??

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                              • Northender

                                'He flies through the air with the greatest of ease...' ?

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