Recommend addition/removal of words
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@sparks No. I am Jewish and I find the verb 'jew' offensive and derogatory. I have no doubt that the person who plays it is has no intention of offending anyone. It is the word, not the player, that is offensive.
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The word TWAT should not be part of this game.
Merriam Webster's definition of twat:
1 slang, vulgar + offensive : a woman's sexual organs -
@zoso-thezephead jew is intended to be offensive
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@mapmakere - "CH is in the UK list but not the US"
Thanks - that would explain why I don't always see it in my 'Dictionary' word lists. However ...@jrp32 - Does Lexulous use the Collins dictionary? This would suggest CH can be used with both of the above lists. Maybe you always play with the UK list and never with the US?
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@mistertoad, so far as I know, lexulous uses the CSW19 (Collins Scrabble Wordlist, 19th something) which is derived from the Collins Dictionary. And yes, i always play the UK list because it is even weirder than the US list (Whether they still use the TWL98+ for the US, I don't know, but they used to).
When i decided that the word lists used were ridiculous and illogical and all that mattered was that the string of letters was acceptsble for play, i went for the weirdest one with the most small and non-word words like "ch" and "ze".
Unlike the claim about to be made, just because something is printed in a dictionary, that does not make it an English word. -
@embraceableewe, how about OFAY? Look it up. Or use, https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/ofay
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@mistertoad That looks like the American dictionary two-letter word list: no ZO
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@mistertoad Yes, I always use the UK list.
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@mistertoad No, I'm saying that the reason CH disappeared from your list was that for the game for which you supplied a screenshot you were using the American dictionary, which leaves out several words familiar from the British English dictionary, including CH and ZO.
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I would like to see the removal of some letters.
Personally I find "V" and "C" very hard to work with.
Also I struggle with more than one "I".
There have been some hummings about a "snail based" (with wood inlay) word list.
I've not seen this personally but I think it might be a good start at creating a new alphabet.
Maybe a more organic feel. Without the rough surface of real letters and words. -
@sparks said in Recommend addition/removal of words:
I would like to see the removal of some letters.
Personally I find "V" and "C" very hard to work with.
Also I struggle with more than one "I"......I think you have some excellent ideas here. Also, I would like to see the use of a dictionary composed of words that only i know.
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@zoso-thezephead used with small J never a compliment
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@sparks most have no thought to be offensive. Some do it with only that thought. This is a word site and words have meanings. Maybe you choose to ignore the meanings but others don't and that is what you need to realize. Not a new hobby of Americans it is old to anyone around the world that is interested in words
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@carolyn-leverich-atkinson : "Favala" with an a is not considered valid anywhere; not even in Brazilian Portuguese.
However, "favela" with an e means shanty town in Brazil and has been adopted into English (at least the online Collins Dictionary lists it). -
@jrp32 Yeah that sounds good, it might compliment the "solitaire" version of scrabble they are working on in Iran now. Well people say they are but to be fair we don't have any proof, same as when we thought they were trying to make a "fair" version of monopoly in Iraq, we never found a thing.
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@gretchen-hunter yo-yo proper noun
I have always considered the word "ofay" to mean "be familiar" with. I have been ofay with the word all my life.