Hmmm - perhaps it's about what's more fun.. if we plough on till we eliminate all possible real english words then we'll certainly get a few interesting new words emerging... or we could insist we only allow letters if it doesn't prevent the word from being "real" - with a common reference perhaps like the dictionary on the crossword solver link from earlier. It seems to me that this latter is somewhat against the spirit of the idea of the game, and also more prone to getting cocked up and annoying us. Perhaps the best answer is to bumble along and resort to Mornington Dictionary when all others fail us?

By way of case in point, and cos it's amusing to my inner-schoolboy, as far as I can work out the last "real" word the first game could have yielded was "Ejacula"

Is there a "T"?

That's T for Tenacious for those whose browsers like mine make it indistinct from the quotemarks...

This is an interesting one, the word is decided on by the collective and we have a player thinks they have made an error but I agree with blamelewis, in that the final word may be from the Mornington Dictionary and what to Projoy may be considsered as mistake when in reality it was the MC subjective consciousness moving in mysterious and serendipitous ways.
It also has allowed two guesses without the first being resolved.

Whith that "F" in position two, I think O is surely helpful.

Lots of guesses. I think we should have a strict guess, place or hang, rotation here. We have:

• A dangling R.
• The possibility of an extra F.
• An undecided T.
• An unjudged O.

I propose to judge on the first of these...

Is it "Officinal"?

[MF] I don't think so - but I feel we're stuck with the single "F" which means:
The story Sofa

_ F _ _ _ _ _ A L
Guessed incorrectly: E, R
Guessed but still to be decided: T, O
Incorrect word guess: Officinal [MF] Is that a real word or perhaps a handy office urinal for executive stress relief?
State of hungness:

[blamelewis] I have one -- It's the box that Windows 2000 Advanced Server came in. :)

My babula-sense tells me that if there is only one A and only one F then I don't know what the word is. Especially if there's no E.

Projoy's guess at an extra F must leave us with a new...

[blame] Yes, that's right

It's risky, but I feel certain this is an awkward one. I'm not going to suggest 'Q': although I do feel there's one in there I'd like to get your views first. A 'Q' would suggest a 'U' unless it has some Arabic origin.

Yes, there is a U, and it goes in that place you're thinking of, too. I'll let you do the honours.

Er - as Projoy set this, and he reckons there should be two Fs then surely there are two Fs - and in any case restating an already used letter should not incur a penalty - as all instances of the letter should be shown by the hangman at the time.
BTW Officinal certainly is a valid word, concerned with medicines, especially those that are kept ready for dispensing.

Very amused to hear Ian Wright, commenting on a football match, describe the play as "effervescent, is that a word?"

[IS,P!] Barry Cryer playing Scrabble:- "I've got A-W... O-R-D... is that a word?"
[Blob] But Projoy didn't set this, he just wrote out 9 dashes. The Collective Consciousness set it, and only the Collective Consciousness knows what it is. As for the extra F - well, the hangman didn't show two Fs immediately, and I thought the hangman's decision was final (otherwise we could just be changing letters around, or adding and discarding them, which would be a very different, if better, game). Anyway, no possible word exists in the language, even if there are two Fs. Unless it's something like the famed Astaire/Rogers vehicle, "O Funny Gal!"

I play... u. I'll leave the Q for anyone daring enough.

Does the Collective Consciousness consider that OFTOQUIAL might be a word?

I believe it does, but what could it mean?

OFTOQUIAL is little known low profile regulator of conversational or infomal spoken english. Its full title would be the Office of Fair Trading of Colloquial, but shortened in the same manner as OFTWAT, OFTTEL and OFTGAS. "Awigh' guv'".

Although I was wondering if it were a word that is frequently said, but never written down.

It's actually a seafarer's corruption of "aft-o-keel", the front beam of the ship's hull. "Aft-o-keel-hauling" was the pirate's worst punishment, where they strapped you to the front of the ship and rammed you into whatever galleons happened to be passing.