marcicat | workaday Wednesday

Okay, this isn't about work, but that's fine, it's still Wednesday-related. SO! I get the NYT morning email, or whatever it's called, which started as a way to get a quick news summary and not have to actually visit a news site during the darkest days of 2020, but which I've continued to receive through a combination of laziness and a true enjoyment of the Spelling Bee puzzle.

(It's like anagrams, except you can use letters more than once? Which, I can say from experience, makes it significantly harder to cheat by asking the internet for help.)

ANYWAY. The puzzles generally seem to get harder as the week goes on, so I was Quite Miffed by the enormous struggle I was having with yesterday's. And then I woke up at some point last night and was all, 'it's EXACTABLE, I've cracked it, well done me!' Except then when I woke up for real this morning I was like, 'exactable isn't even a word, come on!'

But apparently IT IS! Per the NYT this morning: "The pangram from yesterday’s Spelling Bee was exactable."

(The internet remains vague about the meaning or usage of such a word. I mostly found a lot of 'it's an adjective,' and 'see: exact.')