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A Year of Testimonials of the Week

Every Saturday morning at the stroke of midnight, a new testimonial shows up below the puzzle. These have been posted publicly on various social media sites or been sent to lirdle182@gmail.com with permission to publish. They've been lost to the sands of time. Until now. If you've got an opinion you'd love to share with your fellow lirdle enthusiasts and sufferers, send it in to the above address, or just add a comment here, and I'll line it up.  I look forward to increasingly paranoid dreams the longer I use this as a sleep aid. I am loving this game more and more!! I have gotten it in 5 guesses two days in a row, and I have rarely in my life felt quite so powerful. You made wordle boring. I love it and never want to see it again. [...] this just wasn't fun, and I don't think I want to do it again. I wanted it to end, and it just kept giving me more lines! Also, yesterday's word was "amaze"?! That's sadistic, making people guess this with both...
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What is a secondary word?

When Josh Wordle (yes, that's his name) created his game, he pulled a list of some 13,000 words from a database (I don't know which) and had his girl friend pull out the words that could be the guess of the day. The rejected words would be valid guesses, but would never be the word of the day. Regular plurals, like "NOUNS", stayed in the secondary list. Regular past tenses, like "VOWED", stayed in the secondary list. Regular adjectivizations of nouns, like "MISTY", stayed in the secondary list. Obscure words that show up only in scrabble games, like "AALII", stayed in the secondary list. Josh's girl friend is British, so there's a British bias in the primary word list, although it contains both British and American spellings. Anything to get another word in the list. And Lirdle inherited this list. I moved some of the words from one list to the other to make it more suited to worldwide, English-knowledgeable solvers. I also assume...
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