I was doing the NYT Spelling Bee today.
My wife and I share it; she begins, getting bingo if available, and finding all the pangrams she can. Today there was only one.
Meanwhile, I like to keep adding words until we reach a ‘genius’ rating. Like, yeah, recalling or recognizing all those words from the seven letters available doesn’t make us a genius. Just a fun activity.
Today’s seven letters were R V O N E L P. V was in the center, which means it must be used. As I was going through the words, I put in PORVEL.
That wasn’t in the word list.
That surprised me; I’m sure PORVEL is a word. It means ‘poor novel’. Seriously.
I checked the net to verify the word, but the searches only came up with Porvel cheese.
We really need better search engines, don’t we?
Michael Seidel, writer 
I haven’t played that one in a while, but I have found words that it doesn’t have or know. For example, atlatl comes to mind. It is a weapon from the stone ages. I learned it during a vacation with my older son and husband.
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