If “rectified” means “changed back to the way I’m used to”, don’t hold your breath.
If you want to discuss it, there’s a thread in Site Feedback about the changes.
Already there.
I guess Sam doesn’t participate in NONCONTACT sports. Disappointed, but not surprised, that ONCOGENE is not accepted,
Sam likes music but not poetry, CANTATA is ok, not CANTO
No CONNOTATE (blurred because it’s close to an accepted word).
I tried that too
Remember that word, and the same word with an “e” on the end. They come up every so often.
Tough one today, with 3 words I’d never heard before. Usually I try to solve without resorting to clues, but even with clues these 3 were challenging:
CONCATENATE, ECOTAGE, OCTANT
I knew at got the first and third, not the middle one.
Ah, Sam’s no fun. No
GANGBANG, GANGBANGING, or BALLBAG
.
Also no BAIRN.
Re: yesterday - I only know
LUNULA
from previous appearances here, but it’s a fun word to know.
Sam’s love of obscure fabrics and NANKEEN strikes again.
Got to G with a little bit of trouble.
Two disallowed words annoyed
ANOLE and YEGG
Also
ENOL
One thing that amused me and caused a forehead smack because I didn’t get it until the end was
genealogy
. It’s only been my hobby for 30 years.
That second word you listed as one of my “favorite words that will never be included”.
Man, cute furry animals just can’t get a break - no CARACAL, no FENNEC and today still no DEGU.
Tropical flora and fauna are also underappreciated, as not seen in recent days: no ANOLE or LIANA.
Has it ever accepted LIANA? Not since I’ve been playing and that’s over 4 years.
I don’t know whether LIANA has ever been accepted; to clarify, when I said “not seen in recent days” I meant that I saw it in a recent puzzle but that it wasn’t in the list of accepted words.
It must have been accepted at some point, because I recognize the word from somewhere and I have no idea what it means.
What about bunkum for today? That’s a real word for sure. (Spoiled because it has an acceptable answer in it.
Yeah, that one was a disappointment. A perfectly cromulent word.
Tarzan stories?