h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

"Ding" is the sound made by a small bell.

There's also a word which means a dent in metal, such as in a car, which is spelt "dinge" in the UK and "ding" in the US, but the g in it is pronounced like a "j".

what's brown and sounds like a bell ?



dung!

Seems I'm lucky that my name only has one l, eh?

Bel (neither ding nor dung)

Hi, Everyone,

If you look in your Fonts on your 'pooter' you may find Dingbats and Webdings which can be interesting additions to things like leaflets or small posters or just for fun. If you haven't discovered them yet take a look.

Websailor

In Microsoft Word, select the Webdings font, set the font size to something big such as 26 and then type NYC (for New York City).

I don't have Word but my Mac fonts are similar. I'll try that when I get a minute.

Websailor

Is that intentional or coincidental, Gnomon?

I only have Wingdings with my new Mac. i had Webdings and Wingdings on my old one. Have fun.

Websailor

I shall now spend all day dying with curiosity

Websailor

I believe it is intentional.

There you go, Webbie:

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I didn't know we could do that here!

Very nice, but I think that will only work if Websailor has the Webdings font installed.

You mean it is installed somewhere on my PC? And where would I find it?

On my PC, it is: Start / Settings / Control Panel / Fonts

It's there indeed.

I never knew I had that.

Seems you are not too to learn, Bel!

Hmmm, doesn't work for me, even though I have Webdings installed.

I have a lot of fonts if anyone needs some - all free, gathered over years and years surfing the net. About two dozen Star Trek ones <ufo<, a font called very inconspicuously "Parry Hotter", and the one I use for the lettering in my comic, "Year's Supply Of Fairy Cakes"

Thanks everybody, it seems I need new glasses - Nigel spotted Webdings for me so I have it



Websailor