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  1. Bolton's Boots

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    Who keeps their balls at a constant 20C - and why?
     
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    I guess that it is tennis balls that are kept at this temperature at Wimbledon. Too warm and they bounce too high and not warm enough a low bounce.
     
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  3. Bolton's Boots

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    I didn't think that would take long - over to you.
     
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    What might you wear for "a twelve-month and a day"?

    PS. This is a music question.
     
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    The green willow - which I'll wear 'all around my hat' ?
     
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    That's it JT. All yours.
     
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  7. yorkshirehornet

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    ...ah that explains it.... and i thought it was my age.......
     
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    As per usual - get it right when I'm unprepared.
    Ok. Which famous cricket writer said of which slow bowler - 'He bowls like a millionaire.' And compared him to his compatriot who ' bowled like a miser'.
    This bowler didn't care too much for figures. Good job, as in one innings, he conceded over 360 runs.
    I know that's not much to go on, so here is something else. This bowler once bowled to his childhood hero, and had him stumped - by a perfect googly. He said later, 'I felt like a boy who had killed a dove'. So. who was the writer, the bowler and the hero ? (The compatriot isn't necessary!)
    If it's all too obscure, I'll lead you on...
     
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    All part of Australian cricketing folklore:

    Writer - English cricket correspondent Neville Cardus
    Bowler - Aussie Arthur Mailey
    Hero - Aussie Victor Trumper

    And for good measure, the compatriot was Kiwi-born Aussie Clarrie Grimmett - inventor of the 'flipper'.
     
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    And I thought that was difficult!
    I recommend Arthur Maileys autobiography ‘10 for 66 and all that’. One of the best sporting biographies I have ever read.
    Anyway-well done. Over to you.
     
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  11. Bolton's Boots

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    I might just see if I can find a copy...

    In linguistics, what type of word is spatula?
     
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  12. yorkshirehornet

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    A diminutive?
     
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  13. Bolton's Boots

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    No. The word I'm looking for could be described as a subset under homograph. It possibly could be described as diminutive as there are very few words in the subset. Another example in the subset is the word aunt..
     
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    monosemous

    only one meaning?
     
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    Yes - I think that only has one meaning too...:)

    Over to you.
     
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    ....and who else?
     
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    Quite a few if you're thinking English women - and a whole heap if you're thinking men of any nationality.
     
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    Male..... British
     
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    well...Ireland....
     
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    Steven Davis?
     
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