It bothers me that it takes DUNNO but not AMINE. TEFF was finally added. Several friends and I have a Messenger chat used only for listing words that should be in the Bee and aren’t.
They added “gigging” at some point.
Occasionally, however, there is one pangram and it’s composed of 8 or more letters.
For instance, the 11/24 puzzle had one pangram: FACTOTUM
I remember this because that’s a word that I’m not sure that I’ve ever seen before.
Amnion, anomia, anoxia, agonal, adit, hatful, inguinal, hiatal, lardon, landau, ling, manioc, nicotinic, pithing, pruno, tartaric, rarify, tigon…
They have chica, but not chico.
I’ll try to calm down now.
Not just occasionally, but rather usually. Perfect pangrams (those with 7 total letters) are less common than those with more than 7.
Today they took lorry!
But not yoyo.
I admit that I needed a hint to get the pangram today. The combination of letters made it not so obvious.
Hyphenated, sadly.
And yet today, it accepted yoohoo.
I can’t remember it not accepting that. Also boohoo and booboo.
Nappy doesn’t mean Afrotextured hair here so the ambiguity doesn’t come up, although I’m aware of the American connotations.
I was disappointed that it didn’t take porphyry the other day. Hey, if it comes up in autocorrect it must be a word, right?
So today it accepted ‘diddle’ and ‘diddled’ but not ‘doddle’ or ‘doddled’. I can’t even begin to formulate a rule that would accept the former but not the latter.
Has it occurred to you that the NYT might be running an elaborate Turing test of some sort with its « contestants » ?
I’m not familiar with “doddle” but was able to use “doodle” today.
I know the word “diddle” but I don’t think I’ve ever heard “doddle.” “Dawdle,” sure. And “dodder.” But “doddle” is new to me.
ETA: Looks to be British slang for “an easy task.”
It didn’t like “Lido”. Must be too British.
BTW, one of the things I do is look to see if it’s a bingo today (meaning there’s at least one word starting with each of the seven letters) and if it is, trying to come up with a word for each.
It’s capitalized over here, I guess.