Tomtit in the tilth -- the NY TIMES SPELLING BEE thread

the alternate spellings are not usually a problem

but even trying to conjure compound words like falloff, nobleman/noblewoman, bellmen I often miss them

Some of the, um, fun is typing in still-foreign words and hoping they will be accepted like CEMITA.

Lol James, I think I tried MAMACITA at least twice today

I’m too sexy for my (no longer acceptable) CATAMITE.

Yeah I tried that too; meanwhile CRAP and CRAPPING were fine just a couple days ago

As seen here: Rewrite the openings to famous novels in the style of John Lanchester

I had another pair to gripe about but capitalization.

there were a lot of chemistry words today

tried both mamacita and catamite

missed words like climatic, lacteal, acetate

and titmice!

chemistry words and medical words

acetal
acetic
acetate
calcite
malic

celiac
iliac
lactic

didn't hide it all, sorry

but not ictal, which an often used medical term

Keep typing LAIRD to no avail.

Yeah that’s bullshit. Fuck catamite not counting as well!!

Inclusions are never bullshit ime, exclusions are often bullshit

Tomtit talks and bullshit walks.

Biggest bullshit today might be that none of the variant spellings of arrack are accepted

That’s right folks, The CADDY.

Ok I know the whole gag is that definitions of obscure are like subjective but let’s be real there exists no sane rationale for iodine but not iodide. It’s stoopid

a lot of chemistry words again today! oxide, dioxide, diode, iodine, monoxide, neon, xenon

I got doxxed but didn't think of doxx or the alternate spelling of the past tense, doxed

No HIPPING, no credibility.

QB no hints today!

feel like CAPING should be a word?

Well done! May your reign last forever!

Agree on caping. I was genuinely surprised that there was no pipping allowed either.

I absolutely smashed it yday, QB in no time & some v satisfying words like COLDCOCKED

Another bit of editorial stupidity to complain about tho: DECKLE but not DECKLED? The latter form is the only one I ever encounter, ymmv but in any case why would you not have both

yes otm

in orbit probably has thoughts on this

Thought the same thing about DECKLED.

Having real trouble getting to genius today!

I hit the wall a while back as well. Will need the hints tonight I guess

i got there but it felt like tacking against the wind

Just made it to Genius but now I want to collapse.

Okay, kind of annoyed FLAM is not accepted.

I wonder if today is an all-time low in the number of different letters that the words start with (sort of an anti-bingo).

I got very annoyed about WIGWAG because it is NOT A WORD.

and also WIGWAGGING

yesterday I got tripped up by the -oid words - droid, android, paranoid, opioid

and I wouldn’t have thought of words like riparian and rapini on my own

I wonder if today is an all-time low in the number of different letters that the words start with (sort of an anti-bingo).
― Averaged Sevenfold (Leee), Friday, May 27, 2022

and almost all of them start with one letter!

Yay: GIGGING finally accepted!
Nay: WINCHING isn't

in orbit probably has thoughts on this

― Tracer Hand, Saturday, May 14, 2022 3:34 PM (three weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink

You know me so well!

Today: No WENCHING is just stupid.

well and WINCHING, which seems like an actual mistake rather than a judgment call

I think that most days tbh, but I’m not sure how there can be mistakes as I assume they start with a full list of dictionary words & then actively take out ones they don’t like? Equally though I find it hard to imagine an actual professional editor looking at today’s set & going oh there’s no way we can include such obscure, never-encountered words as CONMEN, TOTEMIC or COMMIE

webster has “CON MAN” as two words but it feels tendentious

COMMIE slangy but hard to justify excluding

TOTEMIC feels like a straight up miss, usually the sort of word sam loves to include

lol, was coming here to post about TOTEMIC and somehow knew someone would've beaten me to the punch. Ludicrous omission.

Today's is just making me weary. So many words

Agreed

Multiple PGs too though only one is typical SB fare.

loved today's spelling bee, forgot about the pangrams and enjoyed finding a lot of words

today the hardest words for me were ecotone, icemen, mnemonic, tectonic, monotonic

sorry meant to hide that, not italicize it

I use the spelling bee assistant app in Chrome, and when I saw there were 32 fucking words starting with CO my heart sank.

Yeah, I started too late in the day and I just had other things to do. I think I got maybe half the words. It's a good reminder that losing your precious streak is not actually a big deal and the sky does not fall in just because you didn't get QB one day.

I got to genius yday and immediately stopped, couldn’t be arsed finding all 500 words

Looking at the answers tho was there really IMMINENCE and not IMMINENT? Really sloppy