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!