Language Questions

Is it something that's been petrified? (As in rock, not frightened to death!) As in 'petrichors of lava'?

Or is the clue in the 'tri'? Striking a note three times - a petrichordal bell? :blink:
 
Summat to do with stone maybe body. therefore stone figure not a statue? on the same logic petripoor -stoneybroke.
 
Petrichor or petricor, as some spell it, is from the Greek words petros (stone) and ichor (the earthy yet divine fluid flowing through the veins of the gods) and means the scent of rain on warm ground.
 
It's a smashing word to describe a smashing experience. I'm pleased that those of us who recognised the stone and flowing references were partly correct, even if putting two and two together to make four and coming up with lava.
 
I was only introduced to the word recently but it shot straight into any short list I might compile for the most sensuous words.
 
We all know that we should not end a sentence with a preposition, but what is the most prepositions with which you could end a sentence (and still make sense)?

I have an example - a sentence which ends with no fewer than eight.
 
The Lord is my Shepherd, I shall not want, he makes me down to lie, in pastures green, he leadeth me the quiet waters by... etc., etc.?
 
I would argue the following is OK for 10:

The little boy, who was in bed upstairs, asked his mother to read him a story so she went downstairs to the bookcase and brought up one about Australia, to which the boy responded, "What did you get a book to read out of from down below about down under up for?"
 
Ah, you have a similar source. I would contend that that reads rather more contrived and strained than:

"Mum, what did you bring that book that I didn't want to be read to out of about Down Under up for?"
 
Neither of you two smartypants have come up with the answer to my Papa's one and only word puzzle, have you? In case you've forgotten it, rather than just ignored it, it's: what six-letter word contains the letter 'y' three times?

NO, Brian, NO Googling! And no dictionaries, either. The Meritorious Award for Outstanding Services to Obtuseness will be cyber-presented to the first to geddit.
 
I'm sorry, I missed the question. I know it, it's a mathematical term - syzygy. Very occasionally a mad crossword compiler will be stuck and have to include it.
 
Dammit! Do you know everybloodything, Hartigan? h:)

Er, Mo, I think that's one of those daft Scrabble words, or at least probably allowed by the rather desperate Scrabble dictionary, but syzygy it is. Brian gets the Too Clever By Half Award this time.
 
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