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This is a wordlog for the SpellBinding puzzle (in which you construct words using the specified letters; each word must contain the anchor letter).
Yesterday's words:
HAPPY HARP HARPY HYPHA NAPPY PAPA PAPAYA PAPPY PARR PARRY PHARYNX PRANA PRAY YAPPY
Pangrams: PHARYNX
Player @JB suggested that the word 'hapax' is missing. Unfortunately, hapax is not a word by itself but is a part of a Greek-derived 'Hapax legomenon'. But even without inclusion into the dictionary, it deserves some attention, because it describes something I've had to deal with more than once:
HAPAX LEGOMENON: a word or form occurring only once in a document or corpus
I just had no better word for it than 'singleton', which is not ideal. And hapax legomenon sounds just so much better!
Anyway, I recognize everything here. HARPY: a foul creature of Greek myth or a predatory shrew. HYPHA: mycelium thread of a fungus. PRANA: a Hinduist concept of a life breath.
Another day.
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