# 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:** 41
**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:** [October 18, 2024, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/801 "2024-10-18T16:35:03Z")
Yeah, no FUNNING around from Sam today (and I did try FUGUING as well). ---
**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:** [October 18, 2024, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/802 "2024-10-18T17:53:42Z")
Once again I am saddened by the omisson of goniff. ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2024, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/803 "2024-10-18T18:44:19Z")
I tried it with one f (which is how I would usually spell it) and then two. No good. But all sorts of words in foreign languages are allowed; just not this one. ---
**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:** [October 18, 2024, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/804 "2024-10-18T19:49:50Z")
Yeah, that one-f is the version I first came across in the 70s, and it stuck with me. But Sam reads different stuff. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2024, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/805 "2024-10-18T19:52:24Z")
> [@RitterSport](#): > > What about funning, meaning kidding? I tried it about 5 times just in case. ---
**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:** [October 22, 2024, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/806 "2024-10-22T12:35:21Z")
Still no [CRAIC](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craic). Or [ACCIACCATURA](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/acciaccatura), which is a fun word. ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2024, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/807 "2024-10-22T13:24:33Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > Still no [CRAIC](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craic). Or [ACCIACCATURA](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/acciaccatura) Just as well. I wouldn’t have gotten either one of them. Even with the clues. ---
**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:** [October 23, 2024, 10:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/808 "2024-10-23T10:52:49Z")
METONYMY is not too obscure for Sam, but NEOTENY is. And what’s wrong with NONNY, as in the famous medieval lyric, Hey, nonny nonny? ---
**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:** [October 23, 2024, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/809 "2024-10-23T12:11:00Z")
I really don’t understand why neoteny isn’t allowed. ---
**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:** [October 23, 2024, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/810 "2024-10-23T13:06:09Z")
Similarly, MONONYM is fine but MONONYMY is not. ---
**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:** [October 23, 2024, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/811 "2024-10-23T13:17:48Z")
Y’all are just listing words I try every single time, like Charlie Brown racing toward the football. One day… ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2024, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/812 "2024-10-23T17:21:50Z")
I can usually get down to only two or three words for which I need the hints. (I try to get to Queen Bee.) And sometimes it’s the same word I missed on a previous day with the same combination of letters, like acacia yesterday. So now I’m keeping a list of these words so I can refer to it on another day. ---
**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:** [October 24, 2024, 8:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/813 "2024-10-24T08:44:16Z")
Goddammit - DOGPILING is a perfectly cromulent word and would have been a pangram today. ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2024, 8:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/814 "2024-10-24T08:46:42Z")
Yeah, and he has no love for the PONGIDs either. ---
**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:** [October 24, 2024, 8:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/815 "2024-10-24T08:47:11Z")
I’m pretty sure that’s illegal. ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2024, 10:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/816 "2024-10-24T10:32:34Z")
As long as they’re both consenting adults, I have no problem with what two hominids do in private. ---
**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:** [October 24, 2024, 11:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/817 "2024-10-24T11:00:55Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > Goddammit - DOGPILING is a perfectly cromulent word and would have been a pangram today. Literally came to complain about this one. Yet another good M-W-listed word that the spelling bee GODLING doesn’t like. ---
**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:** [October 24, 2024, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/818 "2024-10-24T15:46:26Z")
DOGPILE was allowed the lone time it was a possible word and DOGPILED was disallowed in that same puzzle. I would have sworn DOGPILING came up before, but this is its first appearance. ---
**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:** [October 24, 2024, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/819 "2024-10-24T17:01:45Z")
I know you’re all thinking it… [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/xFlPoPx10tI/hqdefault.jpg "Dog Pile on da Rabbit") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFlPoPx10tI) ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2024, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/820 "2024-10-24T18:28:33Z")
> [@BlankSlate](#): > > I would have sworn DOGPILING came up before, but this is its first appearance. Since it’s composed of 7 different letters, it would have come up if the other two pangrams had come up before. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739.md?page=40) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739.md?page=42)