Yeah, no FUNNING around from Sam today (and I did try FUGUING as well).
Once again I am saddened by the omisson of goniff.
I tried it with one f (which is how I would usually spell it) and then two. No good. But all sorts of words in foreign languages are allowed; just not this one.
Yeah, that one-f is the version I first came across in the 70s, and it stuck with me. But Sam reads different stuff.
I tried it about 5 times just in case.
Still no CRAIC. Or ACCIACCATURA, which is a fun word.
Just as well. I wouldn’t have gotten either one of them. Even with the clues.
METONYMY is not too obscure for Sam, but NEOTENY is.
And what’s wrong with NONNY, as in the famous medieval lyric, Hey, nonny nonny?
I really don’t understand why neoteny isn’t allowed.
Similarly, MONONYM is fine but MONONYMY is not.
Y’all are just listing words I try every single time, like Charlie Brown racing toward the football.
One day…
I can usually get down to only two or three words for which I need the hints. (I try to get to Queen Bee.) And sometimes it’s the same word I missed on a previous day with the same combination of letters, like acacia yesterday. So now I’m keeping a list of these words so I can refer to it on another day.
Goddammit - DOGPILING is a perfectly cromulent word and would have been a pangram today.
Yeah, and he has no love for the PONGIDs either.
I’m pretty sure that’s illegal.
As long as they’re both consenting adults, I have no problem with what two hominids do in private.
Literally came to complain about this one. Yet another good M-W-listed word that the spelling bee GODLING doesn’t like.
DOGPILE was allowed the lone time it was a possible word and DOGPILED was disallowed in that same puzzle. I would have sworn DOGPILING came up before, but this is its first appearance.
I know you’re all thinking it…
Since it’s composed of 7 different letters, it would have come up if the other two pangrams had come up before.