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    • zoso thezephead
      zoso thezephead @Guest last edited by zoso thezephead

      @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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      • Alison Hope
        Alison Hope last edited by

        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

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          A Former User @jsm last edited by

          @jsm a Jew is not to be confused with jew

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            A Former User @zoso thezephead last edited by

            @zoso-thezephead jew is intended to be offensive

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            • Mistertoad
              Mistertoad @MapmakerE last edited by

              @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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                jrp32 @Mistertoad last edited by jrp32

                @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.

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                  jrp32 @EmbraceableEwe last edited by

                  @embraceableewe, how about OFAY? Look it up. Or use, https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/ofay

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                    Rayger @Mistertoad last edited by

                    @mistertoad That looks like the American dictionary two-letter word list: no ZO

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                    • Mistertoad
                      Mistertoad @jrp32 last edited by

                      @jrp32
                      Just to add a bit of confusion 🙂 I have always considered the word "ofay" to mean "be familiar" with. I have been ofay with the word all my life.

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                      • Mistertoad
                        Mistertoad @Rayger last edited by

                        @rayger - apologies but the reference escaped me - are you saying that CH is similar to ZO?

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                          MapmakerE @Mistertoad last edited by

                          @mistertoad Yes, I always use the UK list.

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                            Rayger @Mistertoad last edited by

                            @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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                              A Former User last edited by

                              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.

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                                jrp32 @Guest last edited by jrp32

                                @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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                                  A Former User @zoso thezephead last edited by

                                  @zoso-thezephead used with small J never a compliment
                                  @bestofgdo

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                                    A Former User @Guest last edited by

                                    @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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                                      MapmakerE @Guest last edited by

                                      @sparks Two i's allow for binocular vision tho. Could we have 2 instead of one? Snail eyes move independently so I don't think they have binocular vision.

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                                      • Zshouldbe8
                                        Zshouldbe8 @Carolyn Leverich Atkinson last edited by

                                        @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).

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                                          A Former User @jrp32 last edited by

                                          @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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                                            A Former User last edited by

                                            @gretchen-hunter yo-yo proper noun

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