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2 hours ago, USCATX said:

I’m not even sure what percentage of adult Americans know or can spell this word.
 

How I feel when faced with that fact:

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3 hours ago, USCATX said:

I’m not even sure what percentage of adult Americans know or can spell this word. 
 

It’s one of those arcane words that only shows up in overly flowery novels and in crosswords. Very common crosswordese. Fortunately, I do a couple of crosswords every day. I don’t think I’ve ever used this word in everyday communication. 

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18 minutes ago, nnm said:

It’s one of those arcane words that only shows up in overly flowery novels and in crosswords. Very common crosswordese. Fortunately, I do a couple of crosswords every day. I don’t think I’ve ever used this word in everyday communication. 

You have probably just lacked the proper motivation. Overcome your hard-wired indifference, and you too can use this word in a sentence! 

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4 minutes ago, nnm said:

It’s one of those arcane words that only shows up in overly flowery novels and in crosswords. Very common crosswordese. Fortunately, I do a couple of crosswords every day. I don’t think I’ve ever used this word in everyday communication. 

I don’t believe I’ve ever heard anyone say it aloud, but yes, it is a helpful word to know if you are doing the NYT crossword puzzle.

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This is the longest I've taken to solve one, and the least satisfied I've been when I did.  Go fuck a goat, Wordle.
This. Randomly filling in letters until it hit.

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35 minutes ago, conVINCEd said:

I don’t believe I’ve ever heard anyone say it aloud, but yes, it is a helpful word to know if you are doing the NYT crossword puzzle.

Yep. My Wordle streak is nothing. Here’s my NYT XWord streak. I occasionally freak out thinking I’ve forgotten it for a particular day. 
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Mother. Fucker.

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