KEY WEST — Making music with a conch (pronounced "konk") shell might seem unusual, but several dozen people tried it during the weekend's annual Conch Shell Blowing Contest in the Florida Keys.
The Wordle word of the day is conch, which at first feels deceptively mild. A shell. A beachside curiosity. Something you might lift to your ear and pretend to hear the ocean. Hardly the sort of word ...