Old Dad

I notice that the word "tinning" is unacceptable in SB today. Tin, of course, is a metallic element and I may be having a mental lapse. I can't for the life of me think of another use for the stuff than tinning. I'm sure there are plenty, but all of my working life I was tinning stuff, and watching others tin stuff. Tinning, in this use, is the application of a thin coating of tin to some other metal or whatnot, for any of myriad uses. Cans of course, are tinned' tho' we now call a tinned can simply a "tin can", as though it were made of tine, which it is not. It's made of steel, and, aftr tinning, can be used to preserve food. How soon we forget!

I'm not a "rules are made to be broken" kind of guy, but this was fun! Still, I first heard the word CAVITATE in Mr. Tobias' 9-th Grade Physics, and many times since. It's a word, and not a weird one. Let it in.

Spelling Bee today: All right, but anyone of a certain age, say, my age, has heard at least one schoolteacher explain, "Alright is not a word!" Yes, yes, times change, and "literally" now means, "but not literally". Still, the editors could set things aright by recognizing "aright" as a word.

Wordplay does not recognize "lignin" to be a word. Wordplay did not take Biology in High School.