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Jan. 19th, 2004 05:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tahnanPerhaps someone who's a professional crossword constructor is lurking out there reading my friends list, so I'll go ahead and ask here. Some day I may remember to ask Will Shortz.
Why the hell is SNEE often defined as a "Dundee dagger" (or Scottish dagger, or the like)? I cannot find any connection to Scotland at all. If anything, the word is Dutch. I feel like someone must've defined it that way once, and it went into everyone's databases, and no one ever really checked it.
Anyone? Anyone? (Have I asked this here before?)
Why the hell is SNEE often defined as a "Dundee dagger" (or Scottish dagger, or the like)? I cannot find any connection to Scotland at all. If anything, the word is Dutch. I feel like someone must've defined it that way once, and it went into everyone's databases, and no one ever really checked it.
Anyone? Anyone? (Have I asked this here before?)
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Date: 2004-01-20 08:21 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-01-20 08:04 pm (UTC)When I saw SNEE in a crossword a couple weeks ago, it was clued simply as "Ko-Ko's dagger," which I think is considerably more appropriate.