I had forgotten I'd already asked about this in February 2015 after doing a random puzzle (no memory even after reading that post!) I said then it might come up in a routine puzzle, and well, it did, in yesterday's Standard. I hope this is a decent interval to have left?

This is another plea for it to be considered - it's in so many online dictionaries, but I haven't checked paper ones. And used by US and UK writers. 79 examples in this poetry site alone: https://www.poetry.net/psearch/betimes for example, including Robert Bridges and Walt Whitman, though it's in prose as well. And A E Housman's Shropshire Lad: "Smart lad, to slip betimes away//From fields where glory does not stay,"

When I entered it yesterday I suspected it would be uncommon - from the current usage point of view.

I'm not suggesting any new chi words, but I was pleased to see jibbon and geggie - if the suggestion was accepted - there.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/mar/21/oxford-english-dictionary-adds-new-entries-chuddies-jibbons-and-fantoosh

I'm very ignorant about Spanish and Mexican food (probably because I don't like it) but I got confused over this word. I didn't play it, and thereby missed a rosette, because I thought it was a plural. I've just searched it, and the references are to "A tapa is ..." and "tapas are ..." . What am I missing, please?

I tried playing laggy in yesterday's Standard game, which really was stupid of me and a triumph of hope over experience as I had tried it before, and recently.

I thought that if a non computer literate person like me knew the word then it must be acceptable and perhaps I'd misremembered its being rejected on the previous occasion.

Is it a candidate for inclusion?

Does anyone else work for a local branch of a UK charity? I'm the Treasurer for our branch and for 4 years have been repelling the HQ's attempts to take our locally-donated group money for HQ expenses and to open branches in other areas of the country. I've written several times to the Charity Commission, but we're small fry compared with the corruption in other charities, and they're not interested. I'm exhausted, and I've been told charity solicitors are extortionate.

Has anyone got relevant experience?

I came across this definition by accident. Apologies to any psychologists out there, as I know nothing about the subject, but from the bits I've seen it seemed a pretty good match for You-Know-Who ...

"Antisocial personality disorder: pervasive pattern of disregard for and violation of the rights of others, lack of empathy, bloated self-image, manipulative and impulsive behavior."

I was very surprised that "aduki" wasn't accepted. When I checked, I found the wiki sites had it as an alternative spelling to adzuki (which I didn't know). I think we must spell it as aduki here, because a google search gives loads of references from the BBC, our supermarkets and others. But perhaps in the US it is spelt only as adzuki.

Anyway, any chance it could be made an acceptable word? (And then it won't come up again for a year, I know!) I don't know whether the adzuki spelling is accepted, but if not I'd suggest it is allowed too - though of course that's very unlikely to come up as a possible word.

Every time I play "rota", I am reminded how surprised I first was to find it classified as uncommon. Now I am soothed to see that the uncommon "rota" was found by 315 people while the common "rostra" (gritted teeth - the one I missed) was found by only 60.  I am not asking for rota's reclassification, but I cannot forbear from commenting.