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      roymccoy @Sillypsybin last edited by

      @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.

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        Sillypsybin @roymccoy last edited by

        @roymccoy Phew! I'm much relieved now.

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          Shannon Lewis-Simpson last edited by

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

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            Dan last edited by

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

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              roymccoy @Dan last edited by

              @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.

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              • Caroline Russell
                Caroline Russell @lexulous last edited by

                @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.

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                  anexparrot @Caroline Russell last edited by

                  @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.

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                  • Tammy Allen Hartsfield
                    Tammy Allen Hartsfield last edited by

                    My opponent played the word NORTENNAS, which the Lexulous dictionary says is invalid. He got 79 points and I’m not happy. How can this be corrected?

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                      betterlate1 0 @L J last edited by

                      @l-j consideration of others is a virtue. I know lot of words I would not use, I know more words that are more polite

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                        roymccoy @Tammy Allen Hartsfield last edited by

                        @tammy-allen-hartsfield said in Recommend addition/removal of words:

                        My opponent played the word NORTENNAS, which the Lexulous dictionary says is invalid. He got 79 points and I’m not happy. How can this be corrected?

                        Are you sure he didn't play NORTENAS, which is accepted? I suspect this is what may have happened. If not, a screenshot would be helpful in determining that the error actually did occur and in what context.

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                          Rikki Bates @roymccoy last edited by

                          @roymccoy Must have been the word nortenas (one 'n' not two), which would be the plural form of nortena (definition: an inhabitant or native of northern Mexico). It's legit.

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                            roymccoy @Rikki Bates last edited by

                            @rikki-bates said in Recommend addition/removal of words:

                            @roymccoy Must have been the word nortenas (one 'n' not two), which would be the plural form of nortena (definition: an inhabitant or native of northern Mexico). It's legit.

                            You agree as to this likelihood, then. I don't approve of this inclusion, as ñ is a different letter in Spanish and I don't think Lexulous should allow e.g. senor or manana either. But it does, and if a word's accepted that's what counts in the game.

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                            • Tammy Allen Hartsfield
                              Tammy Allen Hartsfield @roymccoy last edited by

                              @roymccoy yes, you are correct. I misread it. Thank you.

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                                Mistertoad @roymccoy last edited by

                                @roymccoy
                                You're opening a can of worms (or in Mistertoad's case, maybe a barrel of frogs) 🙂

                                Although MW accepts both senor and manana ...

                                https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/senor
                                https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/manana

                                ... It has the tilde in mañana but NOT the one in señor ie it accepts senor but not mañana! Go figure.

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                                  roymccoy @Mistertoad last edited by

                                  @mistertoad said in Recommend addition/removal of words:

                                  ... It has the tilde in mañana but NOT the one in señor ie it accepts senor but not mañana! Go figure.

                                  I figure MW screwed up (on SENOR, not MAÑANA).

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                                  • Tammy Allen Hartsfield
                                    Tammy Allen Hartsfield @Mistertoad last edited by

                                    @rikki-bates yes, that’s correct. Thank you.

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                                      anexparrot @roymccoy last edited by

                                      @roymccoy said in Recommend addition/removal of words:

                                      @mistertoad said in Recommend addition/removal of words:

                                      ... It has the tilde in mañana but NOT the one in señor ie it accepts senor but not mañana! Go figure.

                                      I figure MW screwed up (on SENOR, not MAÑANA).

                                      I'm no linguist, but I would bet English has borrowed many words from other languages and left the accent marks behind.
                                      Déjà vu?

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                                        roymccoy @anexparrot last edited by

                                        @anexparrot said in Recommend addition/removal of words:

                                        I'm no linguist, but I would bet English has borrowed many words from other languages and left the accent marks behind.
                                        Déjà vu?

                                        You don't need to be a linguist to know that. It doesn't justify wholesale abandonment in every case, however. Many accents are properly retained, and these should include the tilde in Spanish ñ. See e.g. http://www.hrwiki.org/wiki/Senor. I'm suppose MW is being "descriptive" in response to people's being too lazy or illiterate to type the ñ on their phones.

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                                          betterlate1 0 @Sillypsybin last edited by

                                          @sillypsybin never assume if you see it on Wiki it is real

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                                          • JD Scott
                                            JD Scott last edited by

                                            Please get rid of JEW, JEWED, and SPIC. Plus, any other slurs that I haven't seen yet.

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