If a possible word doesn’t contain a letter, and it’s not among the letters in the puzzle, should the word be allowed? After, all, it wasn’t there in the first place, so can it be said to be missing?
Appen it can’t, as they say here in Yorkshire.
I ask this in the serious context of the scholarly “fork andles” debate. And also in a similar vein to the mate of mine at university who reckoned that when he finished a game on the pinball machines and got a numerical palindrome, that meant he’d scored a “moral replay”.
Any thoughts?
