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?