Recommend addition/removal of words
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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).
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@thatguythere202 Fair point. Could well be because it's an Irish language word. Congrats to those who can spell it correctly without checking first. BTW, it's pronounced 'teashock' for those interested.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/taoiseach
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taoiseach#Origins_and_etymology
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@dan is proper noun you are so correct and it means the leader of the country in Ireland. Bet you know that though.
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@betterlate1-0 Yes, in an English language context, it's always the 'Taoiseach' and refers specifically to the Irish leader. Lower case 'taoiseach' would be acceptable if we were playing in Irish/Gaelic.
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the word overo is not accepted. It is a colour of horse. Google it and you will see a long discussion on wikipedia. Thanks
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@marymwalker the word overo is a word not sure if proper noun or not but if not in the dictionary used by the site..not usable. Can you imagine how many more words would be added if every proper noun that some use is termed acceptable? Slang? etc etc. They would spend their lives adding words that might or might not be words.
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It is not a proper noun. It is no more foreign than pinto. There are many words that relate to professions, sports etc that appear esoteric but that does not negate their validity in the dictionary.
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@marymwalker It's a lovely word and seems pretty widely used in horsing circles along with a few similar Spanish ones such as tobiano and sabino. I think that's the problem. The words are too on the Spanish side, and their usage is too niche to have entered the regular English language dictionaries.
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Not sure if I've replied to this thread correctly because I couldn't find a reply button so it may come up as a reply to the wrong person but anyway..
Firstly, the suggestion people are making about vulgar or offensive words being removed is completely ridiculous. If it's a word then its a word. Keep your toxic political correctness to yourselves
Also, not sure if anyone else has noticed but the word 'myspace' (the social media website from 00s) is in the Lexulous dictionary! Now, I may be wrong, but I'm pretty sure that it has no other meanings and so why an obsolete social media website is in the Lexulous dictionary is far beyond me!
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@sakamvari, @agentcarter, why is this even a topic in the list if words cannot be added or removed??
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@mapmakere Good point. It's probably not going to change anything (unless the official dictionary people are following this), but it does promote an interesting discussion nonetheless.
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@dan
Then it is confusing to see the following offer from Lexulous:"Lexulous (2 May 2020)
You may use this topic for recommending words to be added/removed from the Lexulous Word Lists"I would infer that Lexulous creates its own lists of words to use on this site i.e. that it can choose whatever words it wants.
Please Lexulous, can you clarify this point for us!
