IMNSHO, there are some currencies that are commonly known, such as franc, peso, and lira/lire, and some that are not, such as sucre, pula, and tugrik. I don't agree that there should be some artificial all-or-none convention for these non-English-speaking countries.

That's all for now - I feel as if I've been beavering away at this for hours now.

So you were wrong, TRex?

When you said, "I think you just did it again with today's puzzle", you seemed to be predicting that the common word you hadn't played would turn out to be absent from the dictionary linked to the puzzle. In fact, it's there, with a definition from The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language.

Kinda, sorta and helluva are all acceptable in Chihuahua, for the same reason, although some of them are not in as many dictionaries as gonna.

If you feel this is a disgraceful state of affairs, you may wish to write to the editors of those dictionaries about it.

TRex, dis-tress was intended to refer to you tearing your hair out.

I think that whatever dictionary I link to, people will be dissatisfied whenever that dictionary has no definition for a word in the puzzle - "common" or "rare". And there doesn't appear to be an online dictionary that comes anywhere near covering all the rare words in our list.

There is an online Dictionary of the Scots Language which I have used several times.

At least one major author has used spooner. D.H. Lawrence, in the posthumously published Mr Noon, used the word a couple of times. For example: "Emmie, in her wet mackintosh, cuddled into his arms. He was famous as a spooner, and she was famous as a sport."

Word not found in the Dictionary and Encyclopedia.