--- In [email protected], "ChD" <chrndrnj@...> wrote:
>
> To bant = to systematically diet to purpose of keeping down
> superfluous fat. (From William Banting, who advocated the system.)
Heard of Banting but not the contraction of his surname. (Heard of cows, too ;-). My bant means "string" in Lanc. dialect (prob from "band").
> I hereby declare You the *winner*
> Have a cookie...
Thankyou. I'll have a CHOC-chop-CHIP one.
> (Cannot help myself :)
No, please. Help yourself to one, too - I am prepared to consider it a draw.
> ...& an extra point for style on the Swedish man�Suvre. New score: 7/0
Ouch! Right, then. My regional newspaper considers it acceptable to rearrange the letters after changing one of them. Interestingly, the path can be traversed in the least possible steps using this trick only once. Thus: TANK -> tang -> fang -> FLAG.
> Content rodent? ;)
I am now.
M