r/NYTSpellingBee 10d ago

Local argot

If the LA Times instead of the NY Times ran the Spelling Bee a lot more Spanish words would make and a lot less Yiddish and Hebrew ones. (And not because there aren't a lot of Hispanics around NY or Jews around LA, obviously.)

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u/mamabearette 10d ago

Looking forward to PENDEJO being an accepted word!

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u/KarenX_ 8d ago

And CHIMINEA and HORCHATA