Pointless On Now 01 June

[nilrac52]

Watching pointless and Richard has just got one wrong. Words ending in -row. One team gave underthrow. Pointless said wrong. But there IS a word underthrow in the dictionary.

[woofgang]

which dictionary?

[chaptazbru2]

And yesterday, he said 'enrol' ends in 'oll' making it enroll WRONG !!

[-Talbot-]

American?

[nilrac52]

Woofgang. It is in Merriam -Webster dictionary.

[paddywak]

Enroll

enrol or (or ) enroll
vt (enrolling; enr\-olled) to insert in a roll, list or register; to enter in a list as a pupil, member, etc; to enlist; to record; to put in writing; to form into a roll (); to enwrap ().
vi to enrol oneself.
[OFr enroller (Fr enr\^oler), from en, and rolle roll]
enrollee n.
enroller n.
enrolment or enrollment n the act of enrolling; that in which anything is enrolled; a register.

Right

No sign of underthrow

\u00A9 Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd: The Chambers Dictionary 2003; The Chambers Thesaurus 2004

[taranis]

Great pity the presenters are turning it into the Armstrong and Osman comedy show.

[Baldric]

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/underthrow

[DTCwordfan]

well done paddy.....

[-Talbot-]

Do Pointless use a specific dictionary?
underthrow sounds American to me.

[DTCwordfan]

yes, I think it is - not in the Oxford, Cambridge or Chambers dictionaries....