MajGenl.Meade wrote: ↑Sat Apr 02, 2022 8:52 am
Hey BB, tomorrow (your time) can you tell me your first word? Mine isn't working all that well
Don't have to wait, because I don't have any one specific word I use.
As I mentioned early on in this thread, I try to start with a word that has five different letters — generally containing two vowels and three of the eight most common consonants in the English language... although with some of the words they come up with containing 'Z' and 'Y', and even the occasional 'X' and 'Q', sometimes I'll try something like 'quoit', 'zebra', or 'exact' to see if it reveals one or more of those oddball letters.
Other times I'll just play a hunch. Some days it works (like today); other times, not so much.
And then, due to spending much of my youth as a voracious reader as well as honing my skills as a long-time cruciverbalist and infrequent Scrabble player, I have a pretty fair vocabulary to fall back on. That's why that word they tossed at us in Dordle yesterday, a word I had never seen or heard of before — HAPAX, a rare word that refers to the phenomenon of a word or phrase appearing once and only once in a specific body of work — damn near threw me for a loss.
(and yes, I Googled it to find out what it meant; one must never stop learning, and now I will probably never forget it, just like I will never forget 'calumny', the word that relegated me to second place in a Catholic War Veterans-sponsored state-wide grade-school-level spelling bee back in 1967)
Can't be of any more help than that. Just keep trying; perseverance and determination will see you through, just as it did at Fredericksburg and Gettysburg.
-"BB"-Yes, I suppose I could agree with you ... but then we'd both be wrong, wouldn't we?
