I'm sorry about that regarding CONNECTIONS. You might be right that is is 'left-bank' friendly. I've enjoyed a lot of English humor and lit and songs and culture so I may have an advantage. I've been gotten a few times by being ignorant of sports terms and such late developments as the UNO card game. There are some helper web sites I'm told that run the fine line between being informative and cheating. In the past WORDLE has been more 'transatlantic'.