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Um. OK, let's try this:
Sum up the 1930-31 Pabodie expedition to the Antarctic in one (hyphenated) word ...
Sum up the 1930-31 Pabodie expedition to the Antarctic in one (hyphenated) word ...
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Hmm... I know exactly which author and story this is, but I can't think of an obvious hyphenated word to describe it.Disembodied wrote:Um. OK, let's try this:
Sum up the 1930-31 Pabodie expedition to the Antarctic in one (hyphenated) word ...
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Likewise...but I'll take a punt on 'Extra-terrestrials'?cim wrote:Hmm... I know exactly which author and story this is, but I can't think of an obvious hyphenated word to describe it.Disembodied wrote:Um. OK, let's try this:
Sum up the 1930-31 Pabodie expedition to the Antarctic in one (hyphenated) word ...
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Ditto... I'll try 'mind-twisting'?
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...re-reads story. Oh, of course. Hah. Clever.
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It's not necessarily an English word ... 
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Maybe "word" is the wrong word to use. "Sound" might be better. So the question is: sum up the 1930-31 Pabodie expedition to the Antarctic with one (hyphenated) sound ...
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A-choo!
(Sorry, that's not the answer...I've just got a bit of a cold at the moment.)
(Sorry, that's not the answer...I've just got a bit of a cold at the moment.)
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Nope, that's not it either, nor other variations on that theme ... it's a much less human noise.Selezen wrote:Oh-oh?
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It has been described as "an insidious musical piping" sound ... and it was reportedly heard by earlier Antarctic explorers, too.
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Well, after much frantic Googling I came up with...
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(which may or may not be the answer, and is definitely not as funny as Ahruman's suggestionTekeli-li
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