That’s kind of similar to yesterday and the ABLE. BINNABLE and BANNABLE make sense to me.
And FINEABLE.
I didn’t get it today but I recall now that it was used in the last few weeks when I also didn’t get it.
Similarly, boxlike, the pangram, was also a silly add-the-suffix word.
I got it quickly but it was one of those random guesses that worked for me.
For some reason, I got the pangram quickly and that felt…wordlike to me. I can’t remember ever actually reading or hearing it, but it seems like a word that one might potentially use in real life, as opposed to most such coinages.
Wait a minute, raping isn’t a word??
I mean, c’mon, you know why that’s excluded, or you should.
Not really. It’s not an offensive word, like nappy (British for diaper) or chink (…in the armor) could be (both of which are also regular words). I’m sure there are other potentially triggering words that are included.
Has it been allowed in the past?
It has been disallowed in the past. It’s excluded because it can be traumatic for some people, and so let’s not ask them to type it in.
Fine by me. Thanks for the additional info.
I’m ashamed to admit that that was the first word I tried today.
PAGAN was accepted today. IIRC, it wasn’t the last time it was possible.
Looks like it has appeared in 12 previous solutions…
Wow, three pangrams, which I got almost immediately. I’m at 38 words and still can’t hit QB, though. Probably missing something obvious.
Funny, I’m also at 38 words…about 15 points short, I think. Annoying.
Tuesday: still no luck on CATENATE. Most of the set of words that I wouldn’t have got on their own (like TAXA) I remembered from previous puzzles.
Got down to one word, turns out I didn’t know/remember it: RAPINI.
Funnily enough, it was accepted the first time it cropped up in 2018 (same pangram.) I must admit the word is completely unfamiliar to me.
Crosswords have taught me that ETNA is a synonym of Bunsen Burner, but no love from Sam, though he must be familiar with it.
I’m more familiar with the noun form CONCATENATION. It just means to link things in a series or chain.