I’m sorry, Sam, but bulling is definitely a word.
Which was, of course, my first entry today.
Attempted entry, of course. It’s not an obscure usage, if you ask me.
Lots of perfectly cromulent words missing today: bluing, unaging, blub/blubbing, unballing, etc.
Maybe that’s how it works now, but not what I had in mind. They should go through the official list and remove all the words they don’t like once, and then they won’t have to again. That’s how consistency would happen.
We were busy today (7/13) and I didn’t finish the Spelling Bee (ie, get to Genius) until late, but why in the world did they take UNILINGUAL and BILINGUAL (pangram), but not LINGUAL?
This frustrated me too! I’ve heard LINGUAL used. OTOH I’ve never heard ANNULI, which the reader clue defined as "Latin plural for rings or marriage invalidations”. Really?
And @Gyrate, agree that bluing, unaging, blub/blubbing, unballing are all words!
Today’s puzzle accepts NITE but doesn’t accept TONITE.
Well that was the first time I made it to Queen Bee without difficulty. But then the number of words was quite small. Go me anyway!
No luck on WADI though.
Me, too!
Same!
Same, first time that I made it to Queen Bee without any hints except the grid! I whiffed with WADI as well. And the only reason I didn’t need a hint for my last word, RADII, was remembering it from a couple of weeks ago.
And today the great game of guessing which UN- words count versus which ones don’t continues.
Sigh.
With the added grief if they are 11 letters. So the same question remains, someone goes down the list and crosses out normal words… On a whim? Roll of a dice? Word not woody enough?
I’m still missing a few but my reasoning thus far is this: if all you have is UN- words left and you can’t get a hit by slapping an UN- onto one of the other words you’ve found, the remaining words probably don’t have another U in them.
How can it accept untune and not detune? The latter is really the correct word.
I’m glad you didn’t leave your irritation UNVENTED.
Yes, I suspect those trying to figure it out are UNENVIED.
It seems the wordlist is UNVETTED.
Yeah, frustrating day for sure. I think I tried unvented four times.