Exactly. The only other explanation that wasn't something too obvious to be the one was Pico's explanation.

It's like the morning radio show's Impossible Question. It'll be something like "These could be as tall as 56 feet" and someone answers "trees" and another answers "walls."

yes, the answer is Stupid. I knew it all along.

:cuss: CRABCAKE IS NOT A WORD :bitching:

maybe not, but crabby is.

All ravens are black.
All non black things are non ravens.
Therefore the sight of a green (non black) apple (non raven) proves that ravens are black.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raven_paradox

That's so raven!

So then use that as a clue. Why would it be in there, what makes it special in a way that fits with all the others, that would make people overlook it's non-wordness? Because no-one would be lame enough to post and odd-one-out where the answer was that one of the words wasn't a real word, would they?

Sheesh, don't you lot have anything else to worry about? :lol:

here, spot the odd one out:

whine
moan
complain
get on with life
bitch
whinge


:p:

crabcake is a word. It's a compound word.

Try this one:

Hmmph
Flounce
Snit
Pout
Snort


The answer is Pout, because it's the only one where the second letter is O.

:lol:

Well, i liked the question. Because it had me thinking in entirely the wrong way. I was looking at word type and trying to spot patterns, and actually it was to do with letter order. I love stuff like that.

The poll says that Crabcake is correct - so there.

LOL...the poll-ock.

Ditto. I'm rarely correct on these type things, but I like 'em.:)

What? And "clamness is?"