Had to give up on mike's word ... don't recall ever encountering it before!
(Oh, BTW, although this probably wouldn't affect most folks playing, Google unhides the day's words in its search excerpts for this site. So a search for "guess my word" can, if one scrolls far enough down the results page, give away too much.)
I think most of us have this page Bookmarked so we can hit the ground running...
JICAMA is not actually English; it's Spanish--and names a Hispanic root vegetable now better known thanks to the salutary spread of ingredients and dishes... I admit I have not expanded my cooking to include this item, but I enjoy it when I come across it during restaurant dining.
i quite disagree that jicama is not english. it's commonly in english dictionaries as a lowercase entry. that is not a necessary condition, but it is a sufficient one. it came to us through (mexican) spanish, originally from nahuatl, but that doesn't make it any less english.
It's in dictionaries NOW...so of course it's a defensible word for this game. But I'm old enough to remember when 'pizza' was uncommon; in fact, everyone said 'pizza pie,' which is of course redundant, besides sounding silly to our ears 50+ years later. Perhaps we adopt new foods without renaming them (in comparison to, say, aubergine/ eggplant--as an example of a vegetable for which English does not use a term from another language.) Someone just posted to me asking for a recipe for quinoa salad; we don't have another name for that grain...
yeah, i know google unhides the spoiler words. this is also true of google reader. i haven't yet bothered to find a workaround. maybe something as simple as putting in a useless paragraph of spoiler space before the words would help? i'll try that.
Had to give up on mike's word ... don't recall ever encountering it before!
ReplyDelete(Oh, BTW, although this probably wouldn't affect most folks playing, Google unhides the day's words in its search excerpts for this site. So a search for "guess my word" can, if one scrolls far enough down the results page, give away too much.)
I think most of us have this page Bookmarked so we can hit the ground running...
ReplyDeleteJICAMA is not actually English; it's Spanish--and names a Hispanic root vegetable now better known thanks to the salutary spread of ingredients and dishes... I admit I have not expanded my cooking to include this item, but I enjoy it when I come across it during restaurant dining.
i quite disagree that jicama is not english. it's commonly in english dictionaries as a lowercase entry. that is not a necessary condition, but it is a sufficient one. it came to us through (mexican) spanish, originally from nahuatl, but that doesn't make it any less english.
DeleteIt's in dictionaries NOW...so of course it's a defensible word for this game. But I'm old enough to remember when 'pizza' was uncommon; in fact, everyone said 'pizza pie,' which is of course redundant, besides sounding silly to our ears 50+ years later. Perhaps we adopt new foods without renaming them (in comparison to, say, aubergine/ eggplant--as an example of a vegetable for which English does not use a term from another language.) Someone just posted to me asking for a recipe for quinoa salad; we don't have another name for that grain...
Deleteyeah, i know google unhides the spoiler words. this is also true of google reader. i haven't yet bothered to find a workaround. maybe something as simple as putting in a useless paragraph of spoiler space before the words would help? i'll try that.
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