In the task where they had to count the seats in the cinema Andy Zaltzman says “one” while he’s talking. That should have been his accepted answer.
In the task where they had to count the seats in the cinema Andy Zaltzman says “one” while he’s talking. That should have been his accepted answer.
Ha! I thought the same thing and looked up the definition and “one”, unlike “three”, has meanings which are not related to the number:
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/moment
I guess they didn’t want to spend the ten minutes it would take Alex and Andy to have an unskippable grammar nerd cutscene!
I’m actually not sure if I would’ve called or not to be honest. I guess I’m hindsight the wording of the task would have needed to be more precise (“say anything that can be interpreted as a number”).