Me too. I guess it’s because it’s a place name.
Edam and Colby haven’t been accepted, either. I assume for the same reason.
RANGOON today for the same reason
Agree-ish, but does your example ever appear on its own (without crab), as GOUDA does?
“Crab Gouda” would be disgusting.
Okay, I might try that.
I’d eat this
Oh sure, me too. If I were still eating pasta.
Saturday: I suppose I can understand the omission of OMNI but what was wrong with GNOMON (the pointy shadow-casting bit of a sundial)?
Otherwise - got to Genius fairly quickly but winkling out the last half dozen took a while. The use of slang terms or colloquialisms often throws me.
I’ve complained here about that word not being accepted before. However, I don’t bother to complain to the NYT, since I figure it won’t do much good.
Note, MONGOLOID would be a pangram if it weren’t capitalized. But it’s probably too politically incorrect to be accepted even if it weren’t.
I was slightly annoyed that Saturday’s puzzle included omigod.
Yeah, OMIGOD and MOILING made their debut today and I can’t say I’m a fan of either.
I’m fairly new to Spelling Bee. So far, I have 22 Genius ratings for 28 games played and 26 pangrams. No idea if this is good, mediocre or ??
So I assume MOIL also made its debut today? I don’t ever remember seeing to prior to today.
That’s about how I did when I was new. But it’s been a long time since I haven’t gotten Genius. Several years, in fact. And that’s without using hints. I only use hints for the last few words, usually fewer than half a dozen.
Same. Now after a few months I pretty much always get Genius and have gotten two Queen Bees. No hints.
MOIL has appeared in 35 puzzles. All along I assumed it was a variant spelling of MOHEL and thus didn’t even try adding an ‘ing’ today. The dictionaries I googled classify MOIL as an archaic term, so I don’t know why it’s included.
There are strange things done in the midnight sun
By the men who moil for gold
The arctic trails have their secret tales
That can make your blood run cold.
The Northern Lights have seen queer sights
But the queerest they ever did see
Was that night on the marge of Lake Lebarge
I cremated Sam McGee.
-Robert W. Service
That’s the only place I ever recall encountering the word.
Actually now that I think of it, I bet it shows up in Tolkien somewhere referring to dwarves.
Yes, that word was present, though I don’t know if it’s been there prior to that. I didn’t even know what the word meant but just guessed at it.
I asked ChatGPT - an impeccable source - how many mohels there are in the US, and where they’re located. It claimed there are 28, with 9 in Brooklyn. Could be Sam knows somebody?