Spelling Bee rejects a lot of words based on whatever their high-faultin’ NYT style deems acceptable but COME ON.
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#spellingbee
Justine Gardner
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🖊Word creature. 🪶Birb person. Basically just an old fart-in-a-bottle left on a dusty shelf somewhere in Brooklyn, NY. website: www.grumpstonegazette.com linktree: linktr.ee/justine.gardner
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![A 16th century anatomical drawing of a human figure standing, arms outstretched, skin flayed, head tilted skyward. [Image from NYPL: Rare Book Division, The New York Public Library. "Quinta musculorum tabula." The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1545. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/54a96ba0-c6dd-012f-9645-58d385a7bc34]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2kwn5hweta73gzq4sdv6eitj/bafkreih23kjhlue4gqhfb7m5rur4g6ah5zqeessxg7tew4rcrfrst2yqsm)
![A close-up of barnacles on a rock, looking a little like a view of the moon's cratered surface.
[From NYPL public domain collections: 54a9ed10-112d-0133-08fa-58d385a7b928]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2kwn5hweta73gzq4sdv6eitj/bafkreig2xmgs3xrfpcwtckfo3u76a3wicniq6j5bkusdgnemjtumndvriu)
![An illustration of rosebushes, with close-ups of the thorns and how to graft the buds from a 20th century tobacco card series. [Image courtesy of NYPL public domain collection: https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/94c28b20-c565-012f-bd00-58d385a7bc34]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2kwn5hweta73gzq4sdv6eitj/bafkreie4orljkzflgt4eppf6r5ygy3npsbocdawqfg72cnezilwjhiyroy)
![An image from a 16th century anatomy book showing some aspects of the human vascular system in a figure that is missing one leg. [image courtesy NYPL https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/f27ad0f0-c6f8-012f-8b82-58d385a7bc34]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2kwn5hweta73gzq4sdv6eitj/bafkreihpgf37et6wl2igxr5623n6dd454mrznbltcrwd32ggax5b2mfmfm)