# 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:** 45
**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:** [November 24, 2024, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/881 "2024-11-24T00:09:12Z")
I don’t think unediting can be a word. How about unbending? Hey we can make up our own game with that word. Let everyone start with that pangram. Choose a middle letter and let it rip. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2024, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/882 "2024-11-24T00:16:26Z")
I’m sure it doesn’t meet Sam’s exacting standards–I mean, it’s no ROMCOM, but: > **[unediting](https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803110634120)** > > "unediting" published on by null. > **[Unediting the Renaissance: Shakespeare, Marlowe and Milton](https://www.routledge.com/Unediting-the-Renaissance-Shakespeare-Marlowe-and-Milton/Marcus/p/book/9780415100533?srsltid=AfmBOoq-6TEABabC_gQCJMY4OvYT2w5pQDiSV48-TEi5PrmpGTtRuac1)** > > Unediting the Renaissance is a path-breaking and timely look at the issues of the textual editing of Renaissance works. Both erudite and accessible, it will be a fascinating and provocative read for any Renaissance student or scholar. Leah Marcus... [https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~hannaneh/papers/uneditor.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwiz-o3j1\_OJAxW9GDQIHQ0ZCs84ChAWegQIHBAB&usg=AOvVaw2KSuEH\_O92li22SRtqJrDN](https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~hannaneh/papers/uneditor.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwiz-o3j1_OJAxW9GDQIHQ0ZCs84ChAWegQIHBAB&usg=AOvVaw2KSuEH_O92li22SRtqJrDN) (PDF) > **[Unediting the Editing of a Report (Published 2003)](https://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/31/us/unediting-the-editing-of-a-report.html)** > > Article describes how Russ Kick, who maintains Web site that archives government documents, was able to expose blacked-out parts of report on employment diversity within Justice Dept (S) [https://www.researchgate.net/publication/283405413\_Unediting\_De-editing\_and\_Editing\_in\_Non-Traditional\_Authorship\_Attribution\_Studies](https://www.researchgate.net/publication/283405413_Unediting_De-editing_and_Editing_in_Non-Traditional_Authorship_Attribution_Studies) ---
**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:** [November 24, 2024, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/883 "2024-11-24T02:44:12Z")
UNEDITING has never come up, but UNEDIT has been rejected twice. ---
**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:** [November 24, 2024, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/884 "2024-11-24T03:27:16Z")
But they need that word, they can’t use STET because they don’t use s’s. Esses? ---
**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:** [November 25, 2024, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/885 "2024-11-25T16:55:10Z")
On the Saturday 11/23 Spelling Bee, am I correct in remembering that TENON has not been accepted before? Now it accepts both TENON and TENONED. Argh. ---
**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:** [November 25, 2024, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/886 "2024-11-25T17:42:08Z")
TENON has been accepted in all of the 30 puzzles in which it was a possible word. TENONED has been accepted both times it came up. ---
**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:** [November 25, 2024, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/887 "2024-11-25T17:49:41Z")
OK, then not tenon. There is some other woodworking term that it never accepts when I try it. Maybe DADO? ---
**Author:** ![mtnmatt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a3d4f5/32.png) [@mtnmatt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mtnmatt)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2024, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/888 "2024-11-25T18:18:12Z")
Yes, dado has always been rejected, which is probably why I didn’t even try tenon. ---
**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:** [November 26, 2024, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/889 "2024-11-26T04:22:00Z")
Neither DADO nor DIDO is accepted. ---
**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:** [November 26, 2024, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/890 "2024-11-26T04:27:55Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > There is some other woodworking term that it never accepts when I try it. Maybe DADO? Yep, I gripe about this one a lot. ---
**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:** [December 1, 2024, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/891 "2024-12-01T13:49:48Z")
Yesterday was the first long list I’ve seen that didn’t involved -ED or -ING endings, and it made the puzzle more enjoyable, although there was one ridiculously obscure word it took me several clues to figure out. I mean “African game using seeds and stones” doesn’t really help much. Also - although it didn’t really need more words - they missed out ACTINIC. Today’s, on the other hand, is chockablock with -ED words. Ah well. ---
**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:** [December 1, 2024, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/892 "2024-12-01T14:08:41Z")
Feast or famine when it comes to word knowledge. That African game is the root mechanism in a fair number of modern board games, so it’s a word we hear semi-regularly. Today is fun despite the ED. Though I put in BIGHEAD as a joke, and as often happens was surprised by a word being there, this time a pangram. ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2024, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/893 "2024-12-01T14:26:59Z")
> [@Maserschmidt](#): > > Today is fun despite the ED. Though I put in BIGHEAD as a joke, and as often happens was surprised by a word being there, this time a pangram. That one’s been a pangram before, the previous time with a B as index letter. ---
**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:** [December 1, 2024, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/894 "2024-12-01T20:07:57Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > there was one ridiculously obscure word it took me several clues to figure out. My kid learned it in kindergarten and proceeded to beat me nearly every time we played. Of course I didn’t think of it for the Spelling Bee. ---
**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:** [December 1, 2024, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/895 "2024-12-01T21:49:32Z")
Apparently I’m out of touch with the African game market. ---
**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:** [December 1, 2024, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/896 "2024-12-01T22:01:08Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > Yesterday was the first long list I’ve seen that didn’t involved -ED or -ING endings, and it made the puzzle more enjoyable, although there was one ridiculously obscure word it took me several clues to figure out. I mean “African game using seeds and stones” doesn’t really help much. Are you referring to the game of Saturday, November 30, 2024 and is the word you’re thinking of mancala? If not, which day and word are you referring to? Today, Sunday, December 1, 2024, the word I got stuck on was “baaed”. ---
**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:** [December 1, 2024, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/897 "2024-12-01T22:06:40Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > Are you referring to the game of Saturday, November 30, 2024 and is the word you’re thinking of mancala? Yes. Never heard of it. I seem to be an outlier, judging from the responses. ---
**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:** [December 1, 2024, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/898 "2024-12-01T22:10:12Z")
Okay, because, yes, I remembered that word on my own. I got stuck on other words. ---
**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:** [December 3, 2024, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/899 "2024-12-03T14:30:58Z")
It’s been 2 1/2 years, but TOWHEE is back. Sigh. Just infrequent enough to completely forget. ---
**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:** [December 3, 2024, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/900 "2024-12-03T14:42:11Z")
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