“If a famous painting changed owners, if a precious manuscript was sold at auction, if an old palace burned down, if the bearer of an aristocratic name was involved in a scandal, the readers of many thousands of feature articles at once learned the facts. What is more, on that same day or by the next day at the latest they received an additional dose of anecdotal, historical, psychological, erotic, and other stuff on the catchword of the moment.”

https://library.hrmtc.com/2025/07/01/if-a-famous-painting-changed-owners-if-a-precious-manuscript-was-sold-at-auction-if-an-old-palace-burned-down-if-the-bearer-of-an-aristocratic-name-was-involved-in-a-scandal-the-readers-of-many/

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A short tribute to BBC2's gentle afternoon word game.

Catchword ran from 1988 to 1995, it had the word game where three letters appear and you try and fit a word around them. Anagrams and quotes, too.

Paul Coia hosted, and made the programme far more entertaining and fun than it could have been.
http://www.ukgameshows.com/ukgs/Weaver%27s_Week_2023-09-24
#WeaversWeek #Catchword #PaulCoia #gameshow

The Guardian has a new word game called Wordiply where you try to fit three letter words into the longest word you can make.

Outrageously, it refused to accept "floccinaucinihilipilification" and is, therefore, dead to me. #Catchword