Carl Rosin
@carlrosin.bsky.social
Husband, father, teacher of HS English & Philosophy, reader, admirer of Socrates' dialectic & critical skepticism; New England-born, PA-resident. Philosophy Nat'l HS TotY '14 (PLATO). Posts are personal, not representing the district.
@rejectednytwords.bsky.social (I know it’s not a word, but…): “One limit [imposed by quantum physics] restricts the knowledge of the position and the momentum (velocity) of an object, which means that the trajectory of an object cannot be determined with certainty.”
November 15, 2025 at 1:24 PM
@rejectednytwords.bsky.social (I know it’s not a word, but…): “One limit [imposed by quantum physics] restricts the knowledge of the position and the momentum (velocity) of an object, which means that the trajectory of an object cannot be determined with certainty.”
@rejectednytwords.bsky.social It is gallingly common for the Spelling Bee to reject perfectly cromulent words.
November 11, 2025 at 9:39 PM
@rejectednytwords.bsky.social It is gallingly common for the Spelling Bee to reject perfectly cromulent words.
To add insult to injury, CRANIUM is in today’s Connections. I think they’re taunting us.
November 10, 2025 at 1:52 AM
To add insult to injury, CRANIUM is in today’s Connections. I think they’re taunting us.
@rejectednytwords.bsky.social Can something be antediluvian if there’s no such thing as diluvian?
October 27, 2025 at 12:10 PM
@rejectednytwords.bsky.social Can something be antediluvian if there’s no such thing as diluvian?
@rejectednytwords.bsky.social I must be doing SOMETHING every time I undo that messed-up group I made in my various Microsoft apps
September 26, 2025 at 3:49 AM
@rejectednytwords.bsky.social I must be doing SOMETHING every time I undo that messed-up group I made in my various Microsoft apps
@rejectednytwords.bsky.social Ol’ Spelling Bee’s word list is (figuratively) maculate due to this omission.
September 25, 2025 at 1:42 AM
@rejectednytwords.bsky.social Ol’ Spelling Bee’s word list is (figuratively) maculate due to this omission.
Another favorite example of Lexilliness:
September 22, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Another favorite example of Lexilliness:
@rejectednytwords.bsky.social Uncle Walt suggests that we need this word
September 19, 2025 at 8:07 PM
@rejectednytwords.bsky.social Uncle Walt suggests that we need this word
@rejectednytwords.bsky.social Too delicious to omit!
September 13, 2025 at 4:22 PM
@rejectednytwords.bsky.social Too delicious to omit!
@rejectednytwords.bsky.social Someone took “Never Mind the Bollocks” part of that Sex Pistols album title too seriously
September 2, 2025 at 11:39 AM
@rejectednytwords.bsky.social Someone took “Never Mind the Bollocks” part of that Sex Pistols album title too seriously
@rejectednytwords.bsky.social Whatever bubbles bubbles up
July 27, 2025 at 5:11 PM
@rejectednytwords.bsky.social Whatever bubbles bubbles up
@rejectednytwords.bsky.social The sudden nonexistence of FLABBILY is doing wonders for my body image!
July 24, 2025 at 11:26 AM
@rejectednytwords.bsky.social The sudden nonexistence of FLABBILY is doing wonders for my body image!
@rejectednytwords.bsky.social What if I were to do something in a slender and long-limbed way?
July 5, 2025 at 7:07 PM
@rejectednytwords.bsky.social What if I were to do something in a slender and long-limbed way?
@rejectednytwords.bsky.social Something fishy anout this omission
July 5, 2025 at 7:04 PM
@rejectednytwords.bsky.social Something fishy anout this omission
I keep seeing Elmo Blatch, the guy who killed Andy Dufresne’s wife in The Shawshank Redemption
June 25, 2025 at 8:48 PM
I keep seeing Elmo Blatch, the guy who killed Andy Dufresne’s wife in The Shawshank Redemption
@rejectednytwords.bsky.social “Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises, / Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not. / (But yea it hurts that Spelling Bee omits / From its vocabulary my dear name).” Tempest 3.2, plus some … extrapolation.
June 15, 2025 at 2:22 PM
@rejectednytwords.bsky.social “Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises, / Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not. / (But yea it hurts that Spelling Bee omits / From its vocabulary my dear name).” Tempest 3.2, plus some … extrapolation.
@rejectednytwords.bsky.social We *deserve* to be congratulated for finding this word!
June 7, 2025 at 11:29 AM
@rejectednytwords.bsky.social We *deserve* to be congratulated for finding this word!
NFL legend Bill Belichick and his young girlfriend Jordon Hudson show that support for banned books symbolically spans many generations by recreating the opening scene of Alison Bechdel’s graphic memoir Fun Home, which was recently removed from my school’s library. www.inquirer.com/education/ra...
March 17, 2025 at 8:11 PM
NFL legend Bill Belichick and his young girlfriend Jordon Hudson show that support for banned books symbolically spans many generations by recreating the opening scene of Alison Bechdel’s graphic memoir Fun Home, which was recently removed from my school’s library. www.inquirer.com/education/ra...
Is NYT #SpellingBee complicit in the Trump Administration’s assault on Canada?!
February 17, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Is NYT #SpellingBee complicit in the Trump Administration’s assault on Canada?!
Scott, I hope you’re not starting to feel tempted to radically indoctrinate anyone or anything
February 5, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Scott, I hope you’re not starting to feel tempted to radically indoctrinate anyone or anything
And for an assessment of punctuation and capitalization standards? Oof. Nope.
Also: If the “em” in “em-dash” isn’t named for her*, it should be!
* it isn’t (boo!)
Also: If the “em” in “em-dash” isn’t named for her*, it should be!
* it isn’t (boo!)
January 18, 2025 at 1:21 PM
And for an assessment of punctuation and capitalization standards? Oof. Nope.
Also: If the “em” in “em-dash” isn’t named for her*, it should be!
* it isn’t (boo!)
Also: If the “em” in “em-dash” isn’t named for her*, it should be!
* it isn’t (boo!)
Will someone at NYT #SpellingBee please let an MoT review your goyische word list? Oy vey.
(Dates: 1/17/25, 11/1/24)
(Dates: 1/17/25, 11/1/24)
January 18, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Will someone at NYT #SpellingBee please let an MoT review your goyische word list? Oy vey.
(Dates: 1/17/25, 11/1/24)
(Dates: 1/17/25, 11/1/24)
Charles Dickens had something to say against Ignorance (Stave Three of A Christmas Carol):
January 12, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Charles Dickens had something to say against Ignorance (Stave Three of A Christmas Carol):
We know this one exists—we’ve been there together!
January 4, 2025 at 5:16 PM
We know this one exists—we’ve been there together!
