Muntin

Open your windows to this rejected word

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Today’s New York Times Spelling Bee letters:

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G, I, N, P, T, U, and center M (all words must include M).

Merriam-Webster says…

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Silly little dictionary! Don’t you know that muntin can’t possibly be a word if the New York Times says it ain’t?

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My Two Cents

Slim pickins from today’s list of rejected words. Some of them don’t show in a dictionary search (gummi, mugg), while others are verbs (nimming, tumpin) which are harder to write about. But muntin was there for the taking, so it got tooken.

Strip bars

Our friends at Merriam-Webster explain that muntin is an alteration of the French word montant meaning “vertical dividing bar or timber”. And that…