Recommend addition/removal of words
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It is a simple noun - a person who is Jewish is a Jew. I don't think it is inherently derogatory although used that way by some.
Lots of words that are used derogatorily are in Lex (SOWPODS). I agree it feels weird to play them, but - it's a word game. -
@betterlate1-0 Just because you own lots of cats doesn't make you a cat lover.
You are simply a word Nazi. I used a capital "N" to avoid offence.
PS: It's ALL upper-case on the scrabble board.nazi is not worthy of a proper noun
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@jsm using words or not using words are all a matter of choice but jew is always derogatory.
@betterlate1-0 even if it's derogatory, it's still a word, isn't it? You cant just get the dictionary to remove words because you're offended by them.
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@betterlate1-0 even if it's derogatory, it's still a word, isn't it? You cant just get the dictionary to remove words because you're offended by them.
@l-j I did not say remove anything. It is all up to discretion of players.
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@betterlate1-0 And here I thought M-W was a dictionary!
@mapmakere Merriam Webster is pouty
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@Margaret-Jeddry according to official scrabble dic no longer proper noun
@betterlate1 It is both a proper noun and a common noun. E.g. it is used as a common noun when someone is called a "grammar nazi".
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You may use this topic for recommending words to be added/removed from the Lexulous Word Lists.
@lexulous You have many solfège syllables in your dictionary, but you are missing some of the 'movable do"chromatic syllables.
Chromatic solfège syllables can be either 'raised' or 'lowered' depending on whether you are ascending the musical scale or descending. Each non diatonic pitch (the black keys on the piano in the key of 'C') has two names (enharmonic spelling). The syllable you sing depends on the direction of the melody. You have some of these, but not all.
You are missing the following: ri (half step above re), ra (half step below re), fi (half step above fa), le (half step below la), se (half step below sol), and te (half step below ti).
reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solfège
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Pataphysical
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@lexulous You have many solfège syllables in your dictionary, but you are missing some of the 'movable do"chromatic syllables.
Chromatic solfège syllables can be either 'raised' or 'lowered' depending on whether you are ascending the musical scale or descending. Each non diatonic pitch (the black keys on the piano in the key of 'C') has two names (enharmonic spelling). The syllable you sing depends on the direction of the melody. You have some of these, but not all.
You are missing the following: ri (half step above re), ra (half step below re), fi (half step above fa), le (half step below la), se (half step below sol), and te (half step below ti).
reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solfège
@sillypsybin Hi silly not likely words are taken from WIKI probably more the OSPD dics and even that I am not sure. Just am sure no wiki. Interesting info but not valid or missing.
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@lexulous You have many solfège syllables in your dictionary, but you are missing some of the 'movable do"chromatic syllables.
Chromatic solfège syllables can be either 'raised' or 'lowered' depending on whether you are ascending the musical scale or descending. Each non diatonic pitch (the black keys on the piano in the key of 'C') has two names (enharmonic spelling). The syllable you sing depends on the direction of the melody. You have some of these, but not all.
You are missing the following: ri (half step above re), ra (half step below re), fi (half step above fa), le (half step below la), se (half step below sol), and te (half step below ti).
reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solfège
@sillypsybin that aint gonna happen in a million years.
The official 2 letter word lists (UK and US) are compiled by the official Scrabble board for use in professional Scrabble games. These lists are taken directly from the appropriate English and American dictionaries.
These lists are seldom updated, as no one likes to add or remove 2 letter words to the dictionaries. Here in Britain we are very lucky because there is a large amount of 2 letter words that the English dictionaries are willing to add which the Americans won't. (I'm sure that each word has it's own reason.) But yeah, when it comes to Scrabble or Lexulous, the Americans are a bit hard done by on the 2 letter word front. (Its the main reason I no longer play US games)
Anyhoo, those words ain't ever gonna be added or they would have already been added. It's not like they're some new phenomena. And trust me, I wish they were - because there have been a million times that being able to play 'LE' would have won me a game!
Also, if you read the previous messages, you'll also find that Lexulous can't actually add and remove words from their dictionaries. There are many theories why this is, but I'm pretty sure it's because the website dictionary is synchronised with a 3rd party. The Lexulous account on here never responds to messages about this and never update the title of this thread, so every man and woman and their dog come on here expecting miracles that are never going to happen and never get told otherwise.
So yeah, consider your request completely pointless
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@sillypsybin that aint gonna happen in a million years.
The official 2 letter word lists (UK and US) are compiled by the official Scrabble board for use in professional Scrabble games. These lists are taken directly from the appropriate English and American dictionaries.
These lists are seldom updated, as no one likes to add or remove 2 letter words to the dictionaries. Here in Britain we are very lucky because there is a large amount of 2 letter words that the English dictionaries are willing to add which the Americans won't. (I'm sure that each word has it's own reason.) But yeah, when it comes to Scrabble or Lexulous, the Americans are a bit hard done by on the 2 letter word front. (Its the main reason I no longer play US games)
Anyhoo, those words ain't ever gonna be added or they would have already been added. It's not like they're some new phenomena. And trust me, I wish they were - because there have been a million times that being able to play 'LE' would have won me a game!
Also, if you read the previous messages, you'll also find that Lexulous can't actually add and remove words from their dictionaries. There are many theories why this is, but I'm pretty sure it's because the website dictionary is synchronised with a 3rd party. The Lexulous account on here never responds to messages about this and never update the title of this thread, so every man and woman and their dog come on here expecting miracles that are never going to happen and never get told otherwise.
So yeah, consider your request completely pointless
maybe contact Collins or Webster @l-j Thanks for your reply. I hear you. Even though it's legitimate language, the Scrabble Gods aren't ever going to allow it. Que sera sera.
I come to this as a person who studied solfege for many years in at Berklee College of Music, so I'm kind of a nerd about it.
Consider this: The word 'ut' is considered legit (it's in the TWL dictionary), and it's defined as "the syllable once generally used for the first tone or keynote of a scale and sometimes for the tone
now commonly superseded by do". In other words it's an archaic solfege syllable. It isn't even in use anymore, lol. Yet commonly used solfege syllables sung by probably hundreds of thousands of music students the world over every day are excluded. It's kind of mysterious and arbitrary.Whatev. I give up.
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@l-j Thanks for your reply. I hear you. Even though it's legitimate language, the Scrabble Gods aren't ever going to allow it. Que sera sera.
I come to this as a person who studied solfege for many years in at Berklee College of Music, so I'm kind of a nerd about it.
Consider this: The word 'ut' is considered legit (it's in the TWL dictionary), and it's defined as "the syllable once generally used for the first tone or keynote of a scale and sometimes for the tone
now commonly superseded by do". In other words it's an archaic solfege syllable. It isn't even in use anymore, lol. Yet commonly used solfege syllables sung by probably hundreds of thousands of music students the world over every day are excluded. It's kind of mysterious and arbitrary.Whatev. I give up.
@sillypsybin Yeah, that's proper weird actually. We need to find out where these dictionary people hold their meetings and crash one
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You have prompted me to review my guitar fills/runs up and down the scales! Thanks for your input.
Please note this thread has caused a lot of angst amongst members - you are not the only one who has issues with the Lex word lists!
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You have prompted me to review my guitar fills/runs up and down the scales! Thanks for your input.
Please note this thread has caused a lot of angst amongst members - you are not the only one who has issues with the Lex word lists!
@mistertoad I think we need to make it absolutely clear that there is no such thing as a 'Lex word list' - it's the idea of this non-existent thing existing that causes all of this nonsense happening in this thread in the first place.
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Pataphysical
adj. form of pataphysics@sillypsybin
It won't take PATTYCAKE – argh! -
@dan
OK, thank you for this but I do think that Lexulous should clarify the issue officially on the site.Lexulous, please may we have a clear statement with regard to your word list somewhere on the site ?
@mistertoad would just be nice if they revealed the dictionaries used.
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@mistertoad would just be nice if they revealed the dictionaries used.
@betterlate1-0 said in Recommend addition/removal of words:
@mistertoad would just be nice if they revealed the dictionaries used.
It's no secret.
https://forum.lexulous.com/topic/197/dictionary-and-letter-distribution/3 -
@roymccoy
PATTYCAKE appears on various websites but dictionaries such as Merriam-Webster only list it as PATTY-CAKE i.e. a combination of two separate words.You can test words to see if they are maybe valid for Scrabble here:
https://scrabble.hasbro.com/en-us/tools#dictionaryIt's a bit of a mare's nest really - here's just one site which has PATTYCAKE as a valid word:
https://thegeniusofplay.org/genius/play-ideas-tips/play-ideas/patacake.aspx -
@betterlate1-0 said in Recommend addition/removal of words:
@mistertoad would just be nice if they revealed the dictionaries used.
It's no secret.
https://forum.lexulous.com/topic/197/dictionary-and-letter-distribution/3@roymccoy 'Tis a secret! The thread you quote comes to no definite conclusion - merely started another round of speculation
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@roymccoy
PATTYCAKE appears on various websites but dictionaries such as Merriam-Webster only list it as PATTY-CAKE i.e. a combination of two separate words.You can test words to see if they are maybe valid for Scrabble here:
https://scrabble.hasbro.com/en-us/tools#dictionaryIt's a bit of a mare's nest really - here's just one site which has PATTYCAKE as a valid word:
https://thegeniusofplay.org/genius/play-ideas-tips/play-ideas/patacake.aspx@mistertoad in the uk, if someone searches 'sync my website with an online dictionary', the first result is the Cambridge Dictionary. I'm yet to find a word on Lex that isn't on there as a valid word so it's very likely that the Lex dictionary is synchronised with the Cambridge Dictionary website. So from now on if people want to moan about words they should probably contact them.... I'm sure they'll be really interested in people's opinions
