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venetian
A blind cloth? A cloth that blinds?
Today’s New York Times Spelling Bee letters:
A, C, E, I, N, T, and center V (all words must include V)
Merriam-Webster says…
Silly little dictionary! Don’t you know that venetian can’t possibly be a word if The New York Times says it ain’t?
For a complete list of rejected words, check out the Spelling Bee Master.
What’s your favorite dord* from today’s puzzle?
My Two Cents
I typed the title of today’s article with a lowercase v on purpose. A steadfast rule of the Spelling Bee is that no proper nouns are considered valid answers. Names of people, cities, countries, rivers, days of the week, and months of the year are verboten.
But sometimes a word has both a capitalized and a non-capitalized sense. An example of that is today’s dord*. A Venetian with an uppercase V is someone from the city of…
