But Palindrome doesn't start with an E. I seen the palindrome but was to dim to not figure out Elba. I was looking for another word for palindrome that started with an E.
Yes, but what you were guessing was the "it". Really it should have been punctuated as (quote) "Able was I ere I saw" it (unquote), but that type of clue often takes liberties with punctuation. Anyway, that makes it clearer why the answer was "Elba", not "palindrome".
If you're going to give one fill-in-the-missing-word clue as "The ____ has landed", then instead of "Able was I, ere I saw it", the clue should be "Able was I, ere I saw ___".
I think it is one of the first (and sometimes only/few) words people know in french. After oui, non, monsieur. (And not stuff that is normal in english language like garage and croissant)
Without giving away a spoiler - The "Able was I..." quote was what Napoleon said when he saw the Isle to which he was to be exiled. It also (when the answer is added to the end) a palindrome (not a spoiler, but a major hint there).
I think they always announced it when Elvis had left the building where he made a gig, so people wouldn't just wait for him to come back and ignore the other artists.
Or trample each other trying to get a glimpse of him as he was leaving. After his last song the band would keep playing long enough for him to exit at the back and get away before the fans engulfed him.
I believe the phrase was related to the fact that Elvis did not do encores, so they announced that he had left the building, so people knew not to expect an encore.
I think it is the most repeated phrase in history. Cant think of any others... ow yea maybe houston we a problem and "that's all folks" from looney tunes..
I'm pretty sure the MOST REPEATED phrase in the ENTIRE HISTORY would be "In the name of the Father, Son and the Holy Spirit." Or something along the lines of. Come on. Elvis was popular, but keep a little bit of rationality, will ya.
You would be correct, I didn't know but I still got the correct answer simply because I know that Eritrea is just north east of Ethiopia geographically
I didn't know the year but a lot of people come to this site because they like geography. Eritrea and Ethiopia are right next to each other so it would be a reasonable guess knowing that the answer starts with an E
I'm sorry, but that's just simply not true. Whenever an example of english boys school is mentioned, it is Eton almost every time. I have seen Harrow written down like 3 or 4 times, including you comment.
You must know Wellington's famous utterance "Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton, and the occasional intramural match with Harrow, with its equally famous playing fields".
I am not even sure that Harrow is the second most famous worldwide (Rugby being another obvious candidate), but I would be pretty confident Eton was the first. .
Some serious crosswordese leaking into this quiz: eau (312), eagle (270), ebony (144), Elba (328), envy (120), Erie (1385), Eton (835), Ewok (58), Eve (763).
The number in parentheses represents total occurrences in the New York Times Crossword.
If you've never heard of "crosswordese," they're often vowel heavy words that see heavy use crossword puzzles but are used far less frequently in everyday speech. Vowels represent about 25% of letters used in normal speech/writing, but, in crosswords, they represent ~50%.
Actually there were as many as eleven Edwards who were kings of England. The regnal numbers only go back to the Norman Conquest. Edward the Elder (899-924), Edward the Martyr (975-978) and Edward the Confessor (1042-1066) all before that.
That said, I'm from the UK and I managed to get it...
The number in parentheses represents total occurrences in the New York Times Crossword.
If you've never heard of "crosswordese," they're often vowel heavy words that see heavy use crossword puzzles but are used far less frequently in everyday speech. Vowels represent about 25% of letters used in normal speech/writing, but, in crosswords, they represent ~50%.