Wordle with SPOILERS

[Dogtrousers]

I think - I don't know - that they avoid four letter words with an s on the end. So no simple plurals like GOATS. Possibly also no verb forms like SINGS

Would they use Latin plurals like GENII (pl of GENIUS)? I don't know. If they did there would be a tremendous amount of complaining that day

 

[Shortfall]

Surely today's word is an abbreviation?

 

[BrumJim]

Surely today's word is an abbreviation?

I'm not going there!

Not as bad as SNAFU, which was one solution.

 

[Beebo]

Surely today's word is an abbreviation?

Yes, that was my first thought.

but telly and plane are both abbreviations too.

 

[Dogtrousers]

Surely today's word is an abbreviation?

I say no, no, no


Anyway, who cares if it's an abbreviation? It's a word in common use. Common enough to be in the title of a Grammy Record of the Year award winner.

 

[T4tomo]

I say no, no, no


Anyway, who cares if it's an abbreviation? It's a word in common use. Common enough to be in the title of a Grammy Record of the Year award winner.

Indeed!
Plus lots of words are a abbreviation of a longer word, that's how languages develop. Anyone who doesn't agree can get off the autobus.

 

[Beebo]

CAROM. No one has ever heard of it.

It’s a US word apparently.

UK version is cannon, as in “to cannon a ball” in snooker. Or to cannon around.

 

[Dogtrousers]

CAROM. No one has ever heard of it.

It’s a US word apparently.

UK version is cannon, as in “to cannon a ball” in snooker. Or to cannon around.

Not quite no one. I'd heard of it.

My first thought was of the spice
https://bodrumfoods.co.uk/products/bodrum-carom-seeds-ajwan-100g

I have heard it used to mean rebound. I thought that was just archaic rather than US specific. Seems that it's one of those fossils that fell out of use in Britain (and was replaced by cannon) but retained currency in the US. This article has a reference to it in London in 1779

https://www.etymonline.com/word/carom

 

[T4tomo]

Yes I'd heard of of too. Its also used in cricket, but usually with a double rr spelling, where your use a flick of the middle finger held behind the ball to impart spin, which is probably what i was thinking of when I solved it, but am aware of its snooker / pool / billiards connotation too.

 

[Dogtrousers]

I thought I was being really clever going for the obscure word CAROB. Little did I know how obscure it was going to be

 

[T4tomo]

I thought I was being really clever going for the obscure word CAROB. Little did I know how obscure it was going to be

that crossed my mind but had already got the M and eliminated B!

 

[T4tomo]

go one, who else threw BUSTY in as guess this morning? I so wanted it to be correct

 

[BrumJim]

go one, who else threw BUSTY in as guess this morning? I so wanted it to be correct

Deliberately avoided it. And Lusty too.

 

[Beebo]

go one, who else threw BUSTY in as guess this morning? I so wanted it to be correct

Was it a bit of a handful for you this morning?

 

[glasgowcyclist]

CAROM. No one has ever heard of it.

It’s a US word apparently.

UK version is cannon, as in “to cannon a ball” in snooker. Or to cannon around.

I initially thought of the tabletop game that's popular in India and Sri Lanka, called carrom. It appears to be linked, etymologically speaking, since carrom is played by flicking one disc against another (cannoning it) to pot it.

The game and the word date from late 1700s, from French carambole, which was the name of the red ball in billiards.

(Cannon is a later BrEng adaptation of carom.)