Wordle migrated, almost seamlessly, on Thursday to The New York Times website. But as Nic noted in a recent comment the NYT are prudish and are busy removing five-letter ‘filth’. Yesterday’s word was ROBIN; if preceded by round it is very iffy slang. I’m wondering if there is now a gap in the market. Smuttle will only accept smutty words: titty, pussy, cocks, farts .. you get the idea. I wonder if the NYT allows PRICK or are they DICKS?
Meanwhile the BBC is adopting an informality that might cause Lord Reith’s eyebrows to go up. Yesterday morning the weather man said it was going to rain and recommended staying at home to listen to the radio and cook a Sunday roast. Whatever next; Dover Sole, Carlingford Lough oysters, Fair Isle jumpers inserted in the Shipping Forecast?
I have finished A Tenured Professor, a novel by GK Galbraith. He was more successful in his other activities. Now I’m going to read Death and the Penguin by Andrew Kurkov. He is Ukrainian and started writing when he was seven, saddened by the deaths of two of his three hamsters. I fear more mortality in Ukraine. Serendipitously he was on the Today programme this morning.
