# NYT Spelling Bee drives me crazy

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**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")\
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Here’s the thread referenced, BTW:

> [@Over-large portions = Gannet](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/over-large-portions-gannet/998447/4):
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> [[image] ](https://media.sciencephoto.com/f0/17/73/07/f0177307-800px-wm.jpg)[[image] ](https://cdn.pixabay.com/photo/2023/02/04/20/10/gannet-7768059_640.jpg)

Appears to be more of British usage, just like “abattoir.” The only reason I know the word “abattoir” is when I lived in Hungary, our band used to practice in what my friend from Cambridge, UK, called an “abattoir.” I was like, oh, you mean a “slaughterhouse”? I will admit that “abbatoir” is a far prettier word for it. I would similarly not expect words like “courgette” and “aubergine” to be accepted in the Spelling Bee but who knows.

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