Today’s Wordle #674 Hints, Clues And Answers For Monday, April 24th

Monday has arrived! The week has begun! Time to work hard so we can play hard next weekend. Bring home the bacon. Put a roof over our heads. Provide and conquer. All that jazz.

It’s interesting to think about Monday in these terms. The concept of a five-day work week is extremely modern. It wasn’t until 1926, when Henry Ford implemented a Monday-Friday, five-day work week at the Ford Motor Company factories to boost morale, that the concept of week and weekend really took hold.

The policy was extremely popular, however, since factory workers were used to six or seven day work weeks before then. It spread to other companies and industries and was ensconced in US federal law in 1940, when congress passed—and FDR signed—the Fair Labor Standards Act. That law capped work weeks for hourly employees at 40 hours, with anything above that paid at overtime.

People may grumble about socialism, but when you get that sweet, sweet paycheck with all that overtime pay, it’s good old-fashioned watered-down American socialism you have to thank for it. Franklin Roosevelt was far from the most left-leaning Democrat of his era, but many of the benefits we enjoy today come from his time in office and his ambitious New Deal that sprang up as a response to the Great Depression.

Curiously, we can pin the five-day work week on both a left-leaning president and one of the most famous capitalists in history.

Okay, let’s do this Wordle!

How To Solve Today’s Wordle

The Hint: Likewise.

The Clue: This word has a double letter in it.

The Answer:

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Talk about wild swings! My first guess, chair, did me no good whatsoever, leaving me with 283 remaining possible solutions and just one yellow vowel. I opted to knock out a couple more vowels with spout, which was a shockingly good guess. I didn’t realize it at first, but this narrowed things down to juts one possible word. Admittedly, it took me a while to figure out what that word could be, but eventually I plugged in ditto for the win.

My score today: I got 1 point for guessing in three and 0 for tying Wordle Bot (which is fitting with a word like ditto) for a grand total of 1 point. Huzzah!

Today’s Wordle Etymology (Via ChatGPT)

The word “ditto” comes from Italian “detto”, which means “said” or “stated”. In the late 16th century, “ditto” began to be used in English as a printer’s term to indicate that a word or phrase should be repeated. In printing, a small mark or symbol (“) was used to indicate that the word or phrase above it should be repeated. This mark, resembling a pair of quotation marks, became known as a “ditto mark”. Over time, the word “ditto” came to be used as a noun to refer to the mark itself, and then as a verb meaning “to repeat the same as before”. Today, “ditto” is commonly used in everyday language to mean “the same as before” or “likewise”.

Play Competitive Wordle Against Me!

I’ve been playing a cutthroat game of PvP Wordle against my nemesis Wordle But. Now you should play against me! I can be your nemesis! (And your helpful Wordle guide, of course). You can also play against the Bot if you have a New York Times subscription.

• Here are the rules:1 point for getting the Wordle in 3 guesses.
• 2 points for getting it in 2 guesses.
• 3 points for getting it in 1 guess.
• 1 point for beating Erik
• 0 points for getting it in 4 guesses.
• -1 point for getting it in 5 guesses.
• -2 points for getting it in 6 guesses.
• -3 points for losing.
• -1 point for losing to Erik

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