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Welcome to Title Builder Beta.

This small piece of kit is designed to make building your Quiz, Crossword or Puzzle question more effective. It should make finding your question easier for others and, the easier it is to find, the more likely someone is to answer it!

To build an easy to find question title simply select the paper and quiz, enter the quiz number if relevant and fill in the Publication Date. Once you’re happy click “Build Title” and the information should populate the Title field. Fill in the final required details of your question as you normally would, and click submit.

As this is a Beta we only have a limited number of papers and quizzes listed. If you think your favourite Quiz, Crossword or Puzzle should be listed here don’t hesitate to contact us.

Remember: You do not have to use the title builder - simply enter the title and question as you normally would and click submit!

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Express Monday Crossword

pluriel3 | 21:29 Mon 16th Feb 2009 | Quizzes & Puzzles

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Express Monday Crossword.
My edition of the paper says 21d Japenese poem in three lines of five, seven, three syllables;'amusement verse. Haiku fits in but the definition given by Oxford Concise dictionary is contraction of haikai no ku 'light verse' and says 5 7 5 syllables. Help please.

dances

Sunday Independent Crossword No. 146

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Christiana

It's almost certainly 'haiku'. This is a complicated subject. Japanese 'on' are similar to but not the same as our syllables so although Japanese 'on' are 5, 7,5, the English version can have between 10 -14 syllables in all and still be considered a haiku. Hope this helps.

pluriel3

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Thanks Christiana
for your time in helping me
finish crossword now!

Christiana

Correction -meant to say 'up to 17 syllables

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