As far as I remember, MAMMA has been accepted every time I’ve tried it.
It’s archaic; the only time I’ve heard it outside of Victorian novels was when King Charles used it to refer to his late mother shortly after she died. It was used by upper and upper-middle class Britons, with the accent on the 2nd syllable.
Oct 26, for one. SBSolver.com says 144 times.
That trio has always been accepted as such.
Yeah, I get them all together when they’re available.
I guess that makes it official. I’m ready for my strait jacket, doctor.
Spoilering because it’s close to an accepted word.
Sam doesn’t accept yet another furry creature, the GENET. Not as cute as the FENNEC, but better looking than the POTTO
English has always been a fluid language and has changed rapidly over the centuries. In olde England, nobody could agree on how things were spelled (spelt?) and attempts at creating a dictionary largely failed. Then America and Webster came along and threw a lot of traditional words out and changed a lot of the spellings. Accepting modern slang but scorning a word like ‘alright’ seems pointless. I’m totes cool widdit.
Samuel Johnson would disagree on the failure bit.
Sure, but the 20+ dictionaries in the 200+ years prior to his were pretty much useless, especially when books became all the rage in the 1700s and publishers were in desperate need of uniformity of the language.
Esp since “alright” is often used in a different sense than “all right” - “Is she alright with his test answers not being all right?”
One of the most annoying words ever that I keep forgetting: BAOBAB
I’ve known it perfectly well since I was 10 years old, but forgetting it and NABOB kept me from a “natural” QB today.
I saw a twitter post years ago that said something like, “My friends think I spend too much time on the Spelling Bee, but I think they’re barking up the wrong baobab.”
Still no ANOLE or ALEE . I was, however, proud of myself for remembering ALOE and GHEE . For some reason, those two are frequently blind spots for me.
I didn’t get those until I opened up the Buddy. I don’t use the Buddy until I get to Genius, but then I use it to try and get to QB. Three words away!
Hey, coho is back!
Was it ever gone?
I’m fairly sure coign was accepted previously, but not today.
It was never gone.
And the word you asked about, it’s been declined 13 times including today, and never been accepted. Which is a shame, it’s a nice Joycean word.
Well, come other fish has come and gone, then.
DACE was allowed 8 times, and then disallowed 7 times.
Maybe opah?