Today’s Wordle Word Of The Day #452 Hint, Answer And Clues — Wednesday September 14th

It’s Wednesday and we’re smackdab in the middle of September. Honestly, it feels like the beginning of September was just yesterday. Time hurtles on, faster by day it seems, each day a blur. I guess I really don’t relate to Macbeth, who bemoaned his own dreary days, saying:

Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,

Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,

To the last syllable of recorded time;

And all our yesterdays have lighted fools

The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!

Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player,

That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,

And then is heard no more. It is a tale

Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,

Signifying nothing.

I do have a fondness for that play, perhaps above all other Shakespeare tragedies save Hamlet, which is my favorite.

Macbeth, however, was my introduction to The Bard—by way of a comic book, actually. I can still sort of vaguely make out the panels, though I was very young at the time.

It’s also the first play I was in. I was a second-semester freshman in high school and auditioned for the first time (having missed the first semester play 12 Angry Jurors). I got the role of Macbeth’s friend Banquo who he murders pretty early on. The best part, of course, is that I get to come back later as a ghost and scare the pants off the murderous Scottish lord.

It was my first and one of my favorite plays that I was involved with in high school. I got some lead roles later on but I always preferred the smaller parts. Or maybe I just didn’t love the plays I was a lead in quite as much.

My other big Shakespeare part was the villain, Don John, in the comedy Much Ado About Nothing. In this—and in so many other things—I share a common experience with Keanu Reeves, who played the part back in the 1993 film directed by Kenneth Branagh.

But enough about Shakespeare and the many, many ways that Keanu Reeves and I are like twins, basically. Brothers from another mother. Let’s do this Wordle!

Today’s Wordle #452 Answer, Hint & Clue

The Warning: It is rather boiler-plate but consider this your spoiler-gate.

The Hint: Scarborough Fair

The Clue: The first two letters of this word aren’t pronounced how they read.

The Answer:

This was kind of a tricky word for a number of reasons. The pronunciation is strange for a ‘TH’ word, and you don’t see a ton of English words with the ‘Y’ plopped in the center like that, sounding as long as the ‘I’ in spike.

More common would be a very similar word that I’m sure many people stumble on in today’s Wordle: rhyme. I didn’t because my first guess, scour, eliminated the ‘R.’ Indeed, if people stick with crane they’ll knock out the ‘R’ and snag the correct ‘E’ in green. I guess that’s a pretty good starting word!

From here I narrowed my 608 available options down to just 11 thanks to light. Let there be light!

Next, I went with teary to cross of the remaining 2 vowels and ‘Y’ which is a hybrid vowel-consonant (but mostly a vowel in my opinion). This actually narrowed things down to just 1, which I came across surprisingly fast—though I had four letters by this point so I really only had to juggle a little and go through the remaining alphabet until I came up with thyme.

We need more thyme! (Imagine a timed version of Wordle—that would be tough!)

Here, enjoy the sweet and folksy melodies of Simon & Garfunkel, won’t you?