Neal Doran

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NYT Spelling Bee failing to recognise bonkable as a valid word

Ah, the paucity of American English vocabulary…

Thanks to getting something very similar drilled into me at school, I often find myself telling James Brown, that he *can* take it to the bridge, but he *may* not.

Amazing amount of confidence in the responses to this one from people who know very little. Screenwriter, editor, casting, DP, probably responsible for all the creative stuff that directors get/take credit for…

Kind of reminds me of a story about John Peel not being able to understand why a particular band wasn’t huge, because everyone he knew had bought the album. Actually it was everyone who had bought the album, he knew.

It’s been stuck in my head for must be the best part of 40 years. Have also ensured it is lodged in the heads of the next generation too.

To be honest, I don’t think it deserves a treat.

I’m guessing when weighing up the admin of addressing emails from irritated vocab completists compared to emails from furious racism absolutists, the former is easier to deal with. Perhaps if enough of us step up we can be the change we want to see…

Can’t believe this isn’t a valid word on NYT Spelling Bee.

Rugby fans? Big tournament happening right now…

Keir Starmer and Elmo are doing porn now? It’s got even worse than I thought…

That it’s actually a Toshiba TV probably adds to it…

I had heard somewhere that the actual lyric is “but in this ever changing world in which we’re livin’” which is not so bad…

It was this sentence that ultimately convinced I’m going to have to put this album on right now…

Wait’ll they hear about University Challenge…

Kirk!

In the years between his TV fame and the advent of the internet I thought that Roy Jay was American. I think somehow he got conflated with Bill Murray in my young brain…

Age verification? The British indie band Symposium were two years below me at school…

Also, it’s either new or improved. If it’s improved it’s not new, and if it’s new how can it have been improved already?

Ain’t dat da trooth…

Bushy Yip Parcs Squirm was an absolute banger.

I make this recipe often and every time, as I cut the tomatoes along the equator as instructed, I wonder what the difference would be if I cut them pole to pole…

God, I hate it when couples use social media to send each other messages…

Only got purple by process of elimination. I know the NYT is American, but sometimes I do resent that its puzzles are SO American…

Credit to Meta, they’ve trained the Llama AI well…

Ha!

Just worried I wouldn’t have the reflexes to catch it mid-air anymore…

That article may be having the Streisand effect — had never through of it, but that looks ingenious!

Toast that actually pops clear of the toaster when it’s done.