Friday, December 30, 2011

12/30/2011

mike's word: cudgel
joon's word: credenza

Discuss.

3 comments:

  1. @Joon -- As I was getting to your word today, the dictionary rejected CRABCAKE as a guess. It's everywhere listed as a variant of CRAB CAKE. What's the policy (if there is one) on things like that? (SLOTCAR, BOTTLEROCKET, etc.)

    BTW, it was a tickle today to use your word on the way to Mike's!

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  2. there's no policy, of course. whatever's in the word list is a valid guess, and whatever isn't isn't. for the record, i don't know what you mean by "everywhere", since neither of the two dictionaries i use often (MW11 and NOAD) have a listing for "crabcake" (or even "crab cake", for that matter). MW has "slot car" (but not slotcar); neither has "bottle rocket". and none of them are in the word list used in GMW.

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  3. I was sloppy. "Everywhere" in this context means "In nearly all the definitions that come up when you google 'crabcake' ".
    My bad.

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