NYT Connections - some more tenuous than others

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New thread to vent our frustration

I mean, American for toilet, yes. But for the specific meaning given? Not in my many years living in N America.

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Many of the older folks I know still use ‘can’ for toilet. It’s not the most PC for ‘backside’.

I suppose it’s regional/dialect.
There are plenty of British words that would mystify people elsewhere in the country, and America is bigger!

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Total fail today !
I could see 3 of the greens but not a 4th (can) so concentrated on the blues but repeatedly picked the wrong 4 of 5 options . Never heard of one of the purple phrases .

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Phew!

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Need to pay better attention

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I've missed a few as I forgot to go back to it, if I couldn't get it first time.

Another baffling purple group

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Better day for me today

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Quick today. Sometime I have to stare at it for quite some time

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I liked today. More interesting mix than some.

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I got the blues in error thinking the suffix was bull, got the purples by default

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Today was satisfying.

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Of the Purple group, I only knew one in that context.

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First two were easy, getting the blues was a bit of a fluke and I would never have got the purples other than by elimination.

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Exactly what Una says !

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Those purples were never going to be gotten except by elimination!