# NYT Spelling Bee drives me crazy **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Tags:** board-card-word-game\ **Created:** [December 17, 2023, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739 "2023-12-17T15:50:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 25
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2024, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/481 "2024-07-04T23:47:48Z")
Verbing weirds language. ---
**Author:** ![Cugel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cugel/32/1199_2.png) [@Cugel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cugel)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2024, 9:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/482 "2024-07-05T09:55:41Z")
I’ve just started playing this, rejected three valid words so far… unimpressed ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2024, 11:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/483 "2024-07-05T11:30:52Z")
Same. Were they TAPPET, PUNNET and TUPPENCE? ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_was\_in\_Saudi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b77776/32.png) [@Paul\_was\_in\_Saudi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_was_in_Saudi)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2024, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/484 "2024-07-05T11:58:42Z")
Why is TUNEUP acceptable? ---
**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2024, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/485 "2024-07-05T19:45:21Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > Were they TAPPET, PUNNET and TUPPENCE? Also PUPU, which Sam really should take given his fondness for food words. ---
**Author:** ![Cugel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cugel/32/1199_2.png) [@Cugel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cugel)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2024, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/486 "2024-07-05T22:04:13Z")
Yes!! ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2024, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/487 "2024-07-06T12:32:33Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > Same. Were they TAPPET, PUNNET and TUPPENCE? Yeah, it took PENCE but not TUPPENCE? I don’t get that. And I knew it wouldn’t take TAPPET but had to try anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2024, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/488 "2024-07-06T12:52:44Z")
Not surprised it didn’t accept BITCH today, but I was surprised that it did take HOBBIT. ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2024, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/489 "2024-07-06T13:12:19Z")
Bitch was accepted the one time it came up previously. The word has a non-pejorative meaning, so it’s a bit silly to ban it. ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2024, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/490 "2024-07-06T13:24:09Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > TUPPENCE “Tuppence” is how the actual word for the two-penny coin, [twopence](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twopence_(British_pre-decimal_coin)), is pronounced, but is not the “proper” word. The former is also used as a proper noun. Of course, that doesn’t explain why “gonna” and several other slang words are accepted. ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2024, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/491 "2024-07-06T16:13:23Z")
> [@BlankSlate](#): > > Bitch was accepted the one time it came up previously. Of course, that was the very first word that I entered today. ---
**Author:** ![gkster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gkster/32/14107_2.png) [@gkster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gkster)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2024, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/492 "2024-07-08T02:44:05Z")
From July 5, sad that pupu, punnet, peccant, patten and paca weren’t taken. For today, I don’t remember when I last saw a Bee with 70 words. Of course, the ING and ED endings accounted for loads of them. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2024, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/493 "2024-07-09T11:44:36Z")
Today’s missing word: GRINGO. Especially annoying given the various other foreign words, although I suppose they could have deliberately omitted it as being potentially pejorative. ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2024, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/494 "2024-07-09T13:57:09Z")
Like the word ‘bitch’, it was allowed once and then banned. I’m guessing negative feedback. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2024, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/495 "2024-07-09T14:12:50Z")
Reached genius without the pangram, I’ll probably just let it lie and see if if I figure it out later. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2024, 9:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/496 "2024-07-10T09:30:46Z")
And today the NYT’s email will be flooded with messages from angry _Downton Abbey_ fans. ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2024, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/497 "2024-07-10T13:15:27Z")
Didn’t they previously take MOONMAN and MOTORMAN? (Blurred because they are compound words, part of which might not have been discovered by readers here.) Have ----MAN words been removed as insensitive? ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2024, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/498 "2024-07-10T13:28:27Z")
Clearly not… ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2024, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/499 "2024-07-10T14:00:56Z")
Since you asked… MOONMAN has never been accepted. MOTORMAN was accepted three times ( March 22nd 2020, October 13th 2018 and August 26th 2018) before being rejected today. FOOTMAN was accepted once (August 26th 2018) before also getting the axe today. ---
**Author:** ![RitterSport](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rittersport/32/6326_2.png) [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2024, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/500 "2024-07-10T14:35:02Z")
How do you find out about this? Also, is formant that obscure of a word? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739.md?page=24) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739.md?page=26)