And “atlatl” ticks people off in the NYT Spelling Bee, where it is never accepted. Most likely because it is a foreign word that is not widely known or used in the USA.
Our greyhound, Bluebell, loved her stuffed toys. She carried them around all the time, used the larger ones as pillows. In the 11 years she was with us she never damaged a toy in any way. It was as if they were her babies. Before she would accept a new toy as her own we had to rub it on her back to put her smell on it—unless it was a flimsily wrapped Christmas present that we handed to her. Then she understood that it was hers and she would open it and adopt it immediately.
This is an old Jewish joke that I heard from a friend when I lived in Israel. “Why does a Jew always answer a question with a question?” “Why do you ask?”
As a veteran of nearly eight years of active service, for me it was when Trump insulted and belittled an American family who lost their son in Afghanistan that he should have been hanged from a lamppost.
And “atlatl” ticks people off in the NYT Spelling Bee, where it is never accepted. Most likely because it is a foreign word that is not widely known or used in the USA.