A Crisis comes to Wordle: Reusing old words

>>cyanba+(OP)
Connections is better anyway.

>>znkynz+9h
Connections is infuriating.

Not only are they using regional specific knowledge, but they use regional relative concepts.

Many people do not agree that ant rhymes with aunt.

The recent Homophones of words meaning brutal.

Gorey, Grimm, Grizzly, Scarry.

I am guessin that Grimm is a eponym which makes it nebulous at best, eponyms take a lot of use to be regarded in objective terms rather than as invoking an arbartrary property of the name holder. Kafkaesque rises to that use. I don't think Grimm does.

I have no idea if Scarry is supposed to be a homonym for scary. Which it neither sounds like nor means brutal.

Perhaps there is another word that means brutal that sounds like however the person who makes connections thinks Scarry is pronounced.

In which case it would be a homonym of a synonym of brutal.

I also do not live in the same country as only connect, yet do not have such issues with their walls.

The real problem is that while you might be wrong about an answer, once you lose faith that the puzzle setter is right, you can never be sure if your guess is wrong or they are wrong. It is no longer a puzzle and you are playing 'what have I got in my pocket?'.

>>Lerc+Pq
Isn't the point of homophones that they sound like the equivalent word, thus gory, grim, grisly, scary?

>>jeffgr+nC
I think the confusion is about what "Gorey, Grimm, Scarry" mean. They, along with "Silverstein" in that game, are last names of children's authors.

>>extra8+nI
And that would be OK as a clue if Silverstein was a red herring, Grizzly was also a children's author and Scarry sounded like scary (and also meant something in the same ballpark as Gory, Grim, and Grisly)

>>Lerc+wW
Richard Scarry's surname is indeed pronounced "scary," rather than (as I assumed for many years) "scarr-ry."

That is, it rhymes with Harry, Larry, carry, parry, tarry, and marry, rather than... uh, starry, I guess?

>>quuxpl+Bf1
Where I come from, Scarry rhymes with Harry, but Harry does not rhyme with scary.

  Harry does not rhyme with hairy
  Scarry does not rhyme with scary
  Marry does not rhyme with Mary. Nor with merry!

You can probably triangulate my childhood home with that information. :)

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