Recommend addition/removal of words
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I was just playing against the computer and the computer used the word 'cunt'. I am embarrassed to even write this word as it is extremely offensive, and classed as obscene language. Could you please remove it from Lexulous permitted usage? Thanks Jenny
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@clancy1 Hi Jenny - I don't make removal decisions; I just play Lexulous. Like others, I have, at times, found the word 'cunt' convenient, if embarrassing, to play.
It is defined as a word in dictionaries across the internet, has existed as a word since the 14th century, and certainly sets no precedent for acceptable vulgarity with Lexulous.
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@zshouldbe8
Thanks. Dictionary is now saying that DOXED is valid, so maybe it wasn't DOXED that wasn't accepted before but an unnoticed intersecting non-word. I vaguely recall there was a second time that DOXED didn't work either, but maybe I vaguely recall wrong. -
I support 'marc-krizack' in his request for 'paydirt' to be included. We discussed the issues in the post labelled 'Good words not accepted'.
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It might sound like a single word in conversation, but it's clearly two separate words: 'pay dirt'. This is why no major dictionary includes it. It shouldn't be added.
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@dan is basically correct. Only one major dictionary, the Merriam-Webster Online, mentions paydirt as one word, and it is given as an alternate version to the entry pay dirt.
Also, paydirt as a single word is not in the US or the UK Official Scrabble Player's Dictionary (not that they have any bearing on Lexulous...).
Sorry; that seems to be one good Bingo lost.
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@dan
Certainly 'pay dirt' should not be added. The consensus so far is that Merriam-Webster is a major dictionary and, as such, I think we should certainly consider 'paydirt' as a possible addition to the Lexulous dictionary. -
I'm confused by the continuation of this thread and seek a definitive clarification. Is it not true that Lexulous uses two Scrabble dictionaries, over the content of which Lexulous has no influence? This may already have been established and I think it has, but in that case the continuing discussion of which words are to be included or not doesn't make any practical sense. Thank you.
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@dan said in Recommend addition/removal of words:
It might sound like a single word in conversation, but it's clearly two separate words: 'pay dirt'. This is why no major dictionary includes it. It shouldn't be added.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVtZkyBTabQ
It's not just in conversation, and it isn't at all clear that pay dirt absolutely has to be two separate words. Dictionaries are not infallible, and they aren't in this case if they don't list both forms. Google indicates (though unfortunately it doesn't "show" or "give" – God bless the marvelous censors of our current totalitarian technocracy) 1,010,000 finds for "paydirt", which quite establishes it as a legitimate form in common literary use. I don't recall ever even having seen "pay dirt" as two separate words, though I now find it in files on my computer disk in a number comparable to that of "paydirt".
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@carolyn-leverich-atkinson all words evolve from some language but it depends on whether used in the dictionary used here
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@jpcoh1 Pretty sure 'Taoiseach' is a proper noun and always capitalized. Are you new to Scrabble/Lex rules?
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@dan
To taoiseach his own. -
@dan I don't see why it should be treated as a proper noun, any more than another title such as president or prime minister. Presumably it was rejected as "foreign" (though I will admit many Welsh/Irish/Scots/Gaelic and other words are frequently accepted).
