I was watching episodes of the 1978 syndicated revival of \"You Don\'t Say\" on YouTube, and I had some questions:
1. Did they do away with the rule that the word you don\'t say can\'t be a proper name? One of the celebs led the contestant to say \"Lamour\" by alluding to Dorothy, and they didn\'t get buzzed.
2. Jim Peck said that the Friday bonus round was worth $10,000 in cash and prizes. In one of the episodes, the indicator says \"$5,000,\" not \"$10,000.\" Was the cash part of the Friday bonus $5K, or was that probably just a mistake? If it was a mistake, does anyone know how much cash was involved in the Friday bonus?
3. In two of the episodes online, the two returning contestants on Friday start with totals that end in \"00,\" but in the third episode online, one contestant had $1,443 and the other had $2,278. I was under the impression that they played for cash Monday through Thursday. How did those two end up with such figures for their initial two-day stints?
Thanks!
The only explanation I\'d have for your first question is that \"lamour\" isn\'t necessarily a proper noun. It could just be the French word for \'love\'.
The only explanation I\'d have for your first question is that \"lamour\" isn\'t necessarily a proper noun. It could just be the French word for \'love\'.
Unless contractions work differently in French and English, wouldn\'t l\'amour be one word?
In French, \"l\'amour\" isn\'t a contraction; it\'s elision. If you\'ve ever seen \"th\'\" before a word that starts in a vowel in the words to a song, it\'s the same thing. A French contraction would be something like du (de + le).