Recommend addition/removal of words
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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
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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now commonly superseded by do".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.
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@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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@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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@sillypsybin
It won't take PATTYCAKE – argh! -
@mistertoad would just be nice if they revealed the dictionaries used.
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@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 -
@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
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@betterlate1-0 said in Recommend addition/removal of words:
@roymccoy sorry to tell you pattycake is really patty-cake . Hyphenated words are not used.
Thank you ever so much for informing me in this regard.
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@mistertoad said in Recommend addition/removal of words:
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.
I could care less. I was only goofing on sillypsybin's PATAPHYSICAL.
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@l-j said in Recommend addition/removal of words:
I'm sure they'll be really interested in people's opinions
I'm not sure if that was sarcasm or not
I would think that the people compling dictionaries have to be aware of what the opinion of the general public is, yes? It's not just an academic exercise.I imagine they would have be interested in people's opinions.
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@roymccoy said in Recommend addition/removal of words:
I could care less. I was only goofing on sillypsybin's PATAPHYSICAL.
And a mere toad is expected to know this, how?
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@mistertoad
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@mistertoad said in Recommend addition/removal of words:
'Tis a secret! The thread you quote comes to no definite conclusion - merely started another round of speculation
I've seen similar explanations elsewhere. The "US" dictionary is one and the "UK" is another. Since the dictionary is in the game I don't see any compelling reason to be concerned with the particular editions.
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@mistertoad fair point. Ok well it's taken a while but I have found what looks like a genuine word removal/addition request board for the Cambridge Dictionary so maybe if people are serious about getting words added or removed from the dictionary they should try using this. There's also a list of current words that they are asking people to vote on whether they believe should be added or not. I'm assuming to add a word to this list, you just click 'leave comment' at the top. Here it is https://dictionaryblog.cambridge.org/
