Recommend addition/removal of words

roymccoy

@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

Mistertoad

@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#dictionary

It'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

@roymccoy 'Tis a secret! The thread you quote comes to no definite conclusion - merely started another round of speculation

L J

@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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@roymccoy sorry to tell you pattycake is really patty-cake . Hyphenated words are not used.

roymccoy

@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.

roymccoy

@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.

Mistertoad

@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.

Mistertoad

@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?

roymccoy

@mistertoad
I had no expectations.

roymccoy

@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.

Sillypsybin

@roymccoy PATTY-PHYSICAL is hyphenated. I looked it up on Wiki.

L J

@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/

roymccoy

@sillypsybin said in Recommend addition/removal of words:

PATTY-PHYSICAL is hyphenated. I looked it up on Wiki.

I've requested the unhyphenated variant at dictionaryblog.cambridge.org.

Sillypsybin

@roymccoy Phew! I'm much relieved now.

Shannon Lewis-Simpson

EXOTHERM is a word. Please add it to your list of approved words.

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I thought GAMEPLAN was a single word these days. I was wrong.

roymccoy

@dan said in Recommend addition/removal of words:

I thought GAMEPLAN was a single word these days. I was wrong.

I was going to say you were right and that it could be – citing Google, which I expected to deliver tons of one-word GAMEPLANs. It did – but nearly all of the first hundred of them were proper nouns, so it looks like you were basically wrong after all.

Caroline Russell

@lexulous Please add the word Gaelic. This is the language that is spoken in Scotland, and just as Welsh or French or many other languages are allowable words, I do not understand why Gaelic is not included.

anexparrot

@caroline-russell said in Recommend addition/removal of words:

@lexulous Please add the word Gaelic. This is the language that is spoken in Scotland, and just as Welsh or French or many other languages are allowable words, I do not understand why Gaelic is not included.

I believe that your examples are of languages that are also verbs in English. Like for instance "japan" is allowed because it means "to give a high gloss to" but "Japanese" is not allowed because it is a proper noun.