Coming up on Word Matters, does Word'll make you nauseated or nauseous?
Neither, we hope.
I'm Emily Brewster,
and Word Matters is produced by Merriam-Webster in collaboration with New England Public Media.
On each episode, Merriam-Webster editors Amon Shea, Peter Sokolowski,
and I explore some aspect of the English language from the dictionary's vantage point.
Some listeners want to know
if working with words professionally makes a dictionary editor better or worse at Wordle.
Listeners carry and ruin, right?
This is a topic of great discussion in my household.
Are you all better at Wordle because you know all the words or worse at Wordle
because you know all the words?
I have a third option,
which is that I am worse at Wordle because I don't know all the words about that one.
We don't know all the words.
That's for sure.
How about just worse at wordle, period.
How often do you absolutely fail at getting the wordle word, Ammon?
I don't know.
Every couple of weeks.