Today’s Wordle #939 Hints, Clues And Answer For Sunday, January 14th 2024

It’s lazy Sunday and I thought we’d take a stroll through history today before moving on to our Wordle. Here are some of the big, important, world-changing things that took place on January 14th throughout history—including the official end to the American Civil War:

1236 – Henry III of England married Eleanor of Provence.
1539 – Spain annexed Cuba.
1639 – The first constitution in the American colonies, the “Fundamental Orders,” was adopted in Hartford, Connecticut.
1784 – The United States ratified the Treaty of Paris with England, officially ending the American Revolutionary War.
1858 – An attempt was made to assassinate Emperor Napoleon III in Paris.
1907 – An earthquake in Kingston, Jamaica killed more than 1,000 people.
1943 – World War II: Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill began the Casablanca Conference to discuss strategy and study the next phase of the war.
1952 – NBC’s “Today Show,” the first of its kind in the world, premiered.
1954 – The Hudson Motor Car Company merged with Nash-Kelvinator Corporation forming the American Motors Corporation.
1969 – An accidental explosion aboard the USS Enterprise near Hawaii killed 27 people.
2004 – The national flag of Georgia, also known as the “five cross flag,” was restored to official use after nearly 500 years of disuse.

Check out the new shows and movies to watch this weekend as well. Tonight we get the first episode of True Detective: Night Country starring Jodie Foster. I’ll be reviewing that weekly here on this blog.

Wordle time!

How To Solve Today’s Word

The Hint: An angry parent might ask their child this when they find them engaged in some shenanigans.

The Clue: This word is present participle.

See yesterday’s Wordle #938 right here.

Wordle Bot Analysis

After each Wordle I solve I head over to the Wordle Bot homepage to see how my guessing game was.

Can you solve today’s phrase?

Some odd words lately just in terms of tense. Yesterday was past tense. Today’s is a past participle. Easy to have this kind of word throw off your guessing game.

When I posted about the Wordle Bot’s new starting word, a lot of readers told me what they typically use. I went with a reader suggestion with my opener arose today, but ended up being unlucky with 146 words remaining. It could have been worse!

From there, I picked all new letters with chain but that only cut things down to the lucky number 13. With three yellow boxes, I decided to try to get some green letters and went with dingo—as in “A dingo ate your baby!”—but all my yellow boxes stayed yellow. A new green ‘D’ popped up, however, and I knew my answer: doing for the win!

Today’s Score

I get 0 points for guessing in four and -1 for losing to the Bot who got it in just three. Just like yesterday!

Today’s Wordle Etymology

The word “doing” comes from the Old English word “dōn,” which means “to do.” The Old English word is derived from the Proto-Germanic “*dōną,” which also means “to do.” This Proto-Germanic word, in turn, comes from the Proto-Indo-European root “*dheh₁-” meaning “to put, place, set.” The suffix “-ing” in English is used to form the present participle of verbs and can also be used to form nouns from verbs, indicating the action of the verb.

Therefore, “doing” in its current form as a present participle or a noun, has evolved from these older roots, combining the base verb “do” with the “-ing” suffix to indicate the action or process of performing a task or activity.

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