Verbing weirds language.
I’ve just started playing this, rejected three valid words so far… unimpressed
Same. Were they TAPPET, PUNNET and TUPPENCE?
Why is TUNEUP acceptable?
Also PUPU, which Sam really should take given his fondness for food words.
Yes!!
Yeah, it took PENCE but not TUPPENCE? I don’t get that. And I knew it wouldn’t take TAPPET but had to try anyway.
Not surprised it didn’t accept BITCH today, but I was surprised that it did take HOBBIT.
Bitch was accepted the one time it came up previously. The word has a non-pejorative meaning, so it’s a bit silly to ban it.
“Tuppence” is how the actual word for the two-penny coin, twopence, is pronounced, but is not the “proper” word. The former is also used as a proper noun.
Of course, that doesn’t explain why “gonna” and several other slang words are accepted.
Of course, that was the very first word that I entered today.
From July 5, sad that pupu, punnet, peccant, patten and paca weren’t taken.
For today, I don’t remember when I last saw a Bee with 70 words. Of course, the ING and ED endings accounted for loads of them.
Today’s missing word: GRINGO. Especially annoying given the various other foreign words, although I suppose they could have deliberately omitted it as being potentially pejorative.
Like the word ‘bitch’, it was allowed once and then banned. I’m guessing negative feedback.
Reached genius without the pangram, I’ll probably just let it lie and see if if I figure it out later.
And today the NYT’s email will be flooded with messages from angry Downton Abbey fans.
Didn’t they previously take MOONMAN and MOTORMAN? (Blurred because they are compound words, part of which might not have been discovered by readers here.)
Have ----MAN words been removed as insensitive?
Clearly not…
Since you asked…
MOONMAN has never been accepted. MOTORMAN was accepted three times ( March 22nd 2020, October 13th 2018 and August 26th 2018) before being rejected today. FOOTMAN was accepted once (August 26th 2018) before also getting the axe today.
How do you find out about this?
Also, is formant that obscure of a word?