Welcome to the Guess My Word blog. This is a place to discuss the words of the day chosen by Joon and Mike. This paragraph is here mostly as spoiler space. Here are today's words:
i went back and forth on this one. i ultimately decided that unlike "grizzled", you actually can use "flabbergast" as a present-tense verb without awkwardness, so i should go with the uninflected form.
i don't always go with the more common usage. but when an uninflected form is very uncommon or awkward, i try not to use it. flabbergast comes close; i could have gone either way.
still pretty early, but the word cloud indicates a fairly even split, too. there are many flabbergasteds, but probably still under half of (correct) solvers, and i hope not too many got flabbergasted but gave up before trying flabbergast. and FWIW more people tried flab and flabby than flabbergasted.
I felt a bit like Mike's word that I could come up with knuckleball and nothing past that. So I'm putting it down to my brain being muddled due to my having a cold.
I am (joon's word)ed that I couldn't think of Joon's word. What a (mike's word)!
ReplyDeleteGot stuck between FLAB and FLABBILY. Dumb, dumb, dumb.
I know what you mean. I spent over a minute in between FLAB and FLABBY, but I got it; then again, I drew a complete blank on BARISTA yesterday.
DeleteFlabbergasted, yes. Mere flabbergast, no.
ReplyDeleteGot between knuckle and knur/knurl and stuck fast.
What Robert said.
i went back and forth on this one. i ultimately decided that unlike "grizzled", you actually can use "flabbergast" as a present-tense verb without awkwardness, so i should go with the uninflected form.
DeleteFor a change, I agree wholeheartedly with Joon on this one. FLABBERGAST has actually come out of my mouth without stumbling, so there you are.
Deletei don't always go with the more common usage. but when an uninflected form is very uncommon or awkward, i try not to use it. flabbergast comes close; i could have gone either way.
Deletestill pretty early, but the word cloud indicates a fairly even split, too. there are many flabbergasteds, but probably still under half of (correct) solvers, and i hope not too many got flabbergasted but gave up before trying flabbergast. and FWIW more people tried flab and flabby than flabbergasted.
DeleteI felt a bit like Mike's word that I could come up with knuckleball and nothing past that. So I'm putting it down to my brain being muddled due to my having a cold.
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