I spoke too soon about Word Flower not having obscure words. One of the words for today’s game was URTICARIA! Gawd!
Monday - no ADIT or WADI but otherwise a pretty smooth run today.
Okay, so yesterday we had ECOTONE and TOONIE. Really?
And today OLLIE. We’re supposed to know skateboarding terms? Or does the name word have some other meaning I don’t know?
I know we’ve had TOONIE and OLLIE many times. I always miss the first one.
Today I was hoping there was EMBOLI, but no.
Is TOONIE included because it’s the slang term for a Canadian two-dollar coin?
Edit to blur spoiler.
We can only speculate about why one word is accepted and others not. But that’s been my assumption about “toonie”, also “loonie”.
Edited - Blurred spoiler
Friday: Sigh. Bit of a slog but at least no -ING or -ED words.
Missing in action: CANNONRY, CANONRY, TORC, CANTO, and probably some others I’ve forgotten.
ETA: decided to blur because they point to accepted words.
I tried the last word on your list twice because I just assumed I had mistyped it.
Are you….me?!
I did the same!
Considering the state of my so-called brain these days, it’s entirely possible, and might actually explain a few things.
The Bee’s assessment of geology terms is odd. Today they accepted hematite, just one of thousands of minerals, but recently they didn’t accept craton, an absolutely fundamental concept.
A diabolical aspect of this game is the time between the appearances of an unfamiliar word. For instance, six months was long enough for me to completely forget TAIGA.
That’s why I keep a list of all the words I miss.
I considered that, but decided it wasn’t in the spirit of the game for me. If I could always remember all the words, I’d have no reason to play.
Not all of the words. Just the ones I missed, often more than once.
Yes, I understood that.
Sam isn’t an Aubrey-Maturin fan, or he’d allow POTTO
I was disappointed NEOTENY wasn’t accepted.
Me, too! Fundamental to developmental biology. Stephen Jay Gould introduced me to the term in one of his essays, when I was a teen in the 80s – the oversimplified (but not entirely wrong) idea that, in some ways, a modern human resembles a more juvenile version of certain hominid ancestors.