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Quote: Wizard

Wordle 628 3/6

3/9/23

⬜⬜⬜🟩🟩 STARE
⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 CHORE
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 WHERE

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Quote: Wizard

Wordle 630 4/6

[spoiler=3/11/23]
⬜⬜🟩⬜🟨 STARE
🟨🟨🟩⬜⬜ LEAKY
🟩🟨⬜⬜⬜ ELBOW
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 EMAIL

Grrrr. I would definitely question that if somebody played it in Scrabble. Not saying I'd win the challenge, but I don't like it as a Wordle solution.

Quote: EdCollins

EMAIL is NOT listed in the Second Edition (1991), nor is the word listed in the Third Edition. (1996)
However, the word DOES appear in the Fourth Edition (2005) and the Fifth Edition (2014).

According to a source I found online, The Oxford English Dictionary recently renewed its plea for help in tracking down documentation of the first time someone wrote “email” or “e-mail” instead of “electronic mail.” The appeal has been online for three years — and the word has been an entry in the Oxford English Dictionary since 1989 — but the OED still doesn’t have a verifiable instance of the first time someone used it. Right now, the earliest use the editors can find dates to 1979.

What's interesting is that I ALWAYS use a hyphen when I write the word. I never write "email." I always write it "e-mail."

Note that if anyone attempted to solve this Wordle, Wordle #630, one day earlier, the answer was not EMAIL. It was EXTOL. I suspect Tracy Bennett and her staff felt that EXTOL was not common enough of a word... and switched it at the last minute. At least one YouTuber who posts his solve each day, did indeed have EXTOL as the puzzle's answer.
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Quote: EdCollins

EMAIL is NOT listed in the Second Edition (1991), nor is the word listed in the Third Edition. (1996)
However, the word DOES appear in the Fourth Edition (2005) and the Fifth Edition (2014).

According to a source I found online, The Oxford English Dictionary recently renewed its plea for help in tracking down documentation of the first time someone wrote “email” or “e-mail” instead of “electronic mail.” The appeal has been online for three years — and the word has been an entry in the Oxford English Dictionary since 1989 — but the OED still doesn’t have a verifiable instance of the first time someone used it. Right now, the earliest use the editors can find dates to 1979.

What's interesting is that I ALWAYS use a hyphen when I write the word. I never write "email." I always write it "e-mail."

Note that if anyone attempted to solve this Wordle, Wordle #630, one day earlier, the answer was not EMAIL. It was EXTOL. I suspect Tracy Bennett and her staff felt that EXTOL was not common enough of a word... and switched it at the last minute. At least one YouTuber who posts his solve each day, did indeed have EXTOL as the puzzle's answer.
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Thanks! I spell e-mail with a hyphen too. I would have kept it as extol. Not a word I use every day, but I certainly know what it means. Plus, it has an X, making it tricky, yet fair.
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