Figging
I’ve got your nose!
Today’s New York Times Spelling Bee says:
But Merriam-Webster claims…
Silly little dictionary! Don’t you know that figging can’t possibly be a word if The New York Times says it ain’t?
For a complete list of rejected words, check out the Spelling Bee Master.
What’s your favorite dord* from today’s puzzle?
My Two Cents
As I’ve mentioned a few times in previous articles, one of my favorite things about writing this column (aside from having five regular readers) is that more often than not I learn something new every time I start looking into a word.
Today I definitely learned a lot of new things.
The first was that figging could be a noun. I figured it was probably the present participle of the verb fig, whatever fig the verb meant. And looking into that verb produced some surprising results.
