Perhaps because it’s always capitalized?
This morning I tried a different spelling bee app on my phone (this is the web version) It’s basically a clone of the NYT game, except using a different dictionary and allowing ‘e’ and ‘r’ in the same puzzle. It’s a nightmare. After 113 words, six pangrams and carpal tunnel syndrome, I threw in the towel. Kudos to Sam for getting that right.
And why isn’t DETENT allowed, when DETENTE is?
I tried that word as well.
I was surprised “pedicle” wasn’t allowed today, having gotten numerous ones screwed into my back last year. (blurring because it’s similar to an allowed word)
Yesterday, they didn’t accept another pangram, TROCHAIC.
Does anyone here know the last word I got today, BURGOO?
Another one of Sam’s fucking obscure (to me, at least) cuisine terms.
I needed a hint for that one.
I like to have some BURGOO with my CALLALOO and COLCANNON.
Recently I was happily surprised they allowed RHOTIC. They usually hate linguistics terms (ironically, perhaps).
Yes. Slightly less obscure than some of his other foods. The NYTimes Recipes features this recipe every so often.
Burgoo Recipe
Lol!
What’s the matter with RAILYARD? Seems perfectly cromulent to me.
And cardial.
Maybe it’s because my dictionary is 20 years old, but it doesn’t have that word.
But it does have LIDAR, which is not accepted by SB.
I don’t think he accepts acronyms, though it feels like LIDAR is moving to lidar, similarly to its cousin radar.
Eeling seems like a perfectly good word to me.
Apparently EXIGENCE is a problem.
Cardial is a rather obscure medical term meaning ‘relating to the passage between the esophagus and the stomach’. Still a valid word.
Lidar is not an acronym. It’s a blend of LIght + raDAR. At least, that’s what M-W says.
(Emphasis added.) That’s why it’s not accepted.
Huh, LIght Detection And Ranging is what I learned.
Lidar - Wikipedia How strange.
Lidar (/ˈlaɪdɑːr/, an acronym of light detection and ranging[1] or laser imaging, detection, and ranging,[2] often stylized LiDAR) i