
And yes, I know that I am now a day ahead of schedule. It will become worse this Sunday, before it becomes better with probably Maundy Thursday and certainly Good Friday being days of me not posting or even opening the WWW.
As the alternative badge, as supplied by Lissa seems to suggest growing things I'll prefer those as starter words, and if at all possible, I'll avoid words containing the same letter more than once.
I'll maybe add a few words about my chosen starter word if fancy takes me, else I'll just post the solution - or not in the case that I did not solve it.
I is for Inula.
When I began this year's A-Z I imagined getting into problems later on in the alphabet, not with a common letter as I. But this is a fact. I can find no English word for any olvar, the Eldarin (Elvish) words for things that grow, and cannot move *), roughly equivalent to our Flora, that begins with I and have five letters.
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*) as opposed to Kelvar: Things that grow and move, roughly our Fauna, but also comprising humanoids and monsters.
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Thinking of Eldarin made me think of Latin, and I finally found the botanical names for one of the olvar I sometimes, as yet in vain, try to grow in my garden: Inula helenium. In English this pretty flower is known as Elecampane, horse-heal or very fittingly elfdock, and reputedly have amazing healing properties, even to reviving the dead.
As I have had several similar words rejected by Wordle, latest ERUCA for arugula, I did not have high hopes typing in INULA in today's Wordle. But lo and behold, it was accepted.
Fun fact; Blogger's spellchecker does not approve of Inula either.
And tomorrow I will have similar problems. If anybody know of a plant, tree, fungus, moss, lichen -- in short any olvar -- beginning with J and having 5 letters, please tell me about it in the comments.
Thinking aloud once more:
INULA: Now I have an A, not in the 5th place.
DRAPE. Any word, containing many new letters and A are good here. Now I have E (not 5th) and A (not 3rd or 5th).
Remembering yesterday I went with TEASE knowing it could not be the solution with A in the 3rd place, but I wanted to check for two E's as well as hopefully finding more new letters. Now I have T, E, A, And I only know where not to put them.
Still thinking of my hassle with Hazel, I went with CHEAT. Very good one!
Testing the letters one by one: QHEAT, WHEAT - and that was the solution for today - yet another olvar, and one of my
words for W!
words for W!
Once again I did Great
I am clueless about five letter plants etc starting with J unless you cheat a little and use jade(s).
SvarSletNot bad. I found another cheat :)
SletI have tried wordle finally and I got the word but it took a few times. I'm thinking now I'll probably be addicted to this game.
SvarSletInula - pretty, sounds like it should be someone's name.
Have a lovely day.
Inula sounds very much like a name, I agree. Good luck with Wordle ;)
SletNicely done!
SvarSletThanks
SletI cheated and used Google to find "jelly" fungus:
SvarSlethttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jelly_fungus
Also, I tried Wordle a couple of days ago and quite liked it! (although I didn't solve it in the allotted tries!) I will be trying it again.
Using Wikipedia is so not cheating! How would I know the name of flowers and animals and everything without this wonderful tool!
SletI am using Merriam-Webster's "find me a word with 5 letters starting with X"-function to find my starter words. For the solving of Wordle I use only my brain and pen and paper ;)
Have fun with Wordle - it can be quite addictive.