swt_passenger
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AUDIO is one of a few I use, my daughter got it in two yesterday with her usual starter of RAISEMy starting words are IRATE or AUDIO ,yesterday I chose AUDIO
AUDIO is one of a few I use, my daughter got it in two yesterday with her usual starter of RAISEMy starting words are IRATE or AUDIO ,yesterday I chose AUDIO
Bit of a glitch in Metrodle, been climbing back up the leaderboard and hovering anywhere between 90 snd 120, yesterday I somehow gained 1000 points and jumped up to position 12, today however they were wiped off and I was back down to 105.
I believe "aging" is the standard US/Canadian English spelling and "ageing" is usually used elsewhere with other varieties of English. I've noticed before that US English spellings are commonly used on Wordle, so I must admit I didn't pay particular attention to it today: when I had A*I** on the fourth turn it just came to me straight away and I put it in without a second thought. (Having noticed the N and G still available and I as the middle letter, I immediately thought of A*ING, and the only other possibility that briefly occurred to me - APING - wasn't available because I had used the "P".)"Bumping" the "Wordle" thread: actually over a spelling -- rather than "Wordle-as-such" -- issue; though given rise to by a Wordle situation. It involves the verb / adjective ending in "-ing", concerned with "getting older". I have always very definitely reckoned the word to be spelt "ageing", and always used that spelling. I think I've been aware of the variant "aging", but only dimly. Doing today's Wordle: a "lottery" situation developed early: A*ING. I was flummoxed here -- kept going through the still-available letters, using them to make increasingly outlandish words -- think that I saw, but ruled out, "aging": reasoning, " 'a-ging' (accent on second syllable)? -- there's no way that is a word". A full six words entered, none of them the correct one.
I felt a bit of a fool to find that the answer-word was "aging" -- but, as above: very much not the spelling to which I'm accustomed. I find that the Shorter Oxford Dictionary gives both spellings, favouring neither of them over the other one. Is anyone else anything like "in the same boat" as me, over this one: feeling that this word is, for sure, spelt with the "e" -- the five-letter "no-e" version looks wrong and rather ridiculous? -- or is this just a particular "kink" of mine?
Could it be, I wonder, that the spelling with "e" is more common in Britain; and the one without, more so in America -- to which region Wordle tends nowadays, to be oriented?
From memory, it was developed by a Canadian, so the spellings fit with thisI believe "aging" is the standard US/Canadian English spelling and "ageing" is usually used elsewhere with other varieties of English. I've noticed before that US English spellings are commonly used on Wordle, so I must admit I didn't pay particular attention to it today: when I had A*I** on the fourth turn it just came to me straight away and I put it in without a second thought. (Having noticed the N and G still available and I as the middle letter, I immediately thought of A*ING, and the only other possibility that briefly occurred to me - APING - wasn't available because I had used the "P".)
I landed up in the A*ING "lottery" earlier than you: from word 3 onward. My first shot at it was APING as referred to by you (no incidence of "P" in my first two words). As told of upthread -- I not-very-cleverly ruled out AGING, and my words got progressively weirder: AWING (in flight -- or saying "aw"); ACING (achieving something with "ace" results, as in "acing a test" [Yankee influence in this, and the preceding ]); AHING (saying "ah") ... My brother, who usually does Wordle simultaneously with me, got AGING successfully; via yet another candidate -- AXING (which I think I would render "axeing" -- don't think, though, that I've ever used this adaptation of the verb describing what Beeching notoriously did).I believe "aging" is the standard US/Canadian English spelling and "ageing" is usually used elsewhere with other varieties of English. I've noticed before that US English spellings are commonly used on Wordle, so I must admit I didn't pay particular attention to it today: when I had A*I** on the fourth turn it just came to me straight away and I put it in without a second thought. (Having noticed the N and G still available and I as the middle letter, I immediately thought of A*ING, and the only other possibility that briefly occurred to me - APING - wasn't available because I had used the "P".)
"Bumping" the "Wordle" thread: actually over a spelling -- rather than "Wordle-as-such" -- issue; though given rise to by a Wordle situation. It involves the verb / adjective ending in "-ing", concerned with "getting older". I have always very definitely reckoned the word to be spelt "ageing", and always used that spelling. I think I've been aware of the variant "aging", but only dimly. Doing today's Wordle: a "lottery" situation developed early: A*ING. I was flummoxed here -- kept going through the still-available letters, using them to make increasingly outlandish words -- think that I saw, but ruled out, "aging": reasoning, " 'a-ging' (accent on second syllable)? -- there's no way that is a word". A full six words entered, none of them the correct one.
I felt a bit of a fool to find that the answer-word was "aging" -- but, as above: very much not the spelling to which I'm accustomed. I find that the Shorter Oxford Dictionary gives both spellings, favouring neither of them over the other one. Is anyone else anything like "in the same boat" as me, over this one: feeling that this word is, for sure, spelt with the "e" -- the five-letter "no-e" version looks wrong and rather ridiculous? -- or is this just a particular "kink" of mine?
Could it be, I wonder, that the spelling with "e" is more common in Britain; and the one without, more so in America -- to which region Wordle tends nowadays, to be oriented?
The problem with the Wordle app is that it won't allow words that aren't a word. I always think it should allow for this even if to put a few letters in the right place (obviously you forfeit a chance there too)
With your having mentioned it: yes, I should really have left it until Tue. 2/1 was fully over and gone. Sorry !I didn't get it today.
Isn't there an etiquette here not to reveal spoilers?
No worriesWith your having mentioned it: yes, I should really have left it until Tue. 2/1 was fully over and gone. Sorry !
Spelling Bee rejects plenty of British English words. And lots of perfectly good scientific words.Three are several puzzles on the Wordle site - one I like doing is Letter Boxed. Here the reverse is true re spellings - I have tried perfectly good words but they have been rejected by the puzzle. No doubt it doesn't exist in American English.
Bah. 365 day streak came to an end today.
That's one of the particularly frustrating aspects! I think words where the 3rd and 5th letter are as today can be tricky as there are so many possibilities.You put me on alert for a tricky word, but I managed to solve in 5 (almost 4, but one letter out)
The fifth letter was the last one I got today!That's one of the particularly frustrating aspects! I think words where the 3rd and 5th letter are as today can be tricky as there are so many possibilities.
If you only knew today‘s 3 and 5 there’s 211 options according to the Chambers “word wizard”. Obviously you can ignore any words that include your wrong guesses, but it’ll still be a lot…That's one of the particularly frustrating aspects! I think words where the 3rd and 5th letter are as today can be tricky as there are so many possibilities.
What euphoria? It's a game like many others, some luck, some skill, some mental training. Obviously a long run of success is not just luck. I get an infinitesimal rush (yay!) when I solve it, especially if quickly, then forget it.I don't really understand the euphoria
One can increase the skill-factor -- and potential joy when one does well, obstacles notwithstanding -- by putting in place the game's available "hard mode" refinement (which I've mentioned here before): which rejects any word which one tries to enter, which cannot be right -- because of letters wrongly placed, or already fully "stricken out". (In a way, the "hard mode" thing can be seen I suppose, as making matters easier rather than -- or as well as -- harder.) I reckon self pretty laid-back as regards playing the game: am pleased when I get the word at all -- there are days when I fail to; can't get zealous about sweating on success in as few goes as possible. I eschew "hard mode", because I like to be able on occasion, to enter words which I know can't be right, in the hope of getting a "pointer" to the right one -- or if I get sick of the thing, to just use up the full six goes with wrong words, so as to get told the answer.I have absolutely nothing against Wordle, millions worldwide enjoy playing it, but I don't really understand the euphoria when someone gets it in 1-2-3 goes when in reality to get it correct in just a few goes is all down to luck. According to Google there are there are 12,972 words in the Wordle Dictionary. Yes there are some tactics, many always begin with the same word(s), but luck plays a massive part.
I learn that today's Wordle is the one-thousandth since the game began. Glasses duly raised ...