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!

@beehelpme lol, I actually used to do that all the time. Even with words that you would never believe in a million years were actual words. I even discovered the word 'woorara' ! Thankfully I was playing an actual game with my mum so she knew I wasn't cheating! Haha.

Over time I've learn some really weird ones from other people or researching weird word lists online in my spare time (I have developed a rather strange interest in obscure words). The strangest is a 5 letter all-consonants word: 'crwth' ! (Of course, do not ask me what it means because I usually forget the definition!)

Because I'm aware that coming up with these words organically is possible, I tend to always give people the benefit of the doubt and just accept that it is certainly possible that they may have come up with the word without any cheating sites. The only time I ever decide they're cheating is when literally every word is a bingo or a 'perfect play' and they're using multiple letters on the board in weird places. They literally have to do this for a very long time and eventually I decide that either they're cheating or theyre just levels above me and if I'm not learning and just constantly questioning whether their playing is legit, I stop playing them.

This one guy even accused me of cheating and the next day accepted a game (I forgot it was him who i played) and then just did an entire game of ridiculous cheating... Even then I was giving him the benefit of the doubt until at the end I realised who it was and that he was trying to teach me a lesson in cheating when I'd never even cheated! he then blocked me... Absolutely ridiculous behaviour. I let my worse side get the better of me and logged in with a different gmail just to message him and tell him he was wrong the whole time and should take a good look at himself!

But yeah, feels good to know other people have to put up with this sort of nonsense as well.

Oh and regarding the dictionary, in professional scrabble you aren't allowed to use a dictionary, you have to play your word and if your challenger contests it and you're wrong you lose the go. I think that's right. But in non professional games of Lexulous I'm pretty sure it's allowed else why would they put a dictionary on the app I think we can live with a clear conscience!

@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.

@dan I did disable the live chat at one point but I found out they can still actually send messages but you just can't read them! I hated the idea of people thinking I was being impolite and turned it back on! but it's comforting to know I'm not the only one that gets annoyed by this so thanks for your reply. I guess I just need to learn not to take it to heart!

Does anyone else get this? It happens to me mostly on live games to the point I've even stopped using it mostly. I make up potential words in my rack that aren't in my vocabulary and then dictionary search them, so some people see these words and assume I'm cheating. I had this one girl message me "raiting? Really?" And blocked me... I think making 'ing' words and checking them in the dictionary must be one of the most simplest ways of formulating a bingo. It's quite annoying when I go to the new games list to accept a players challenge and it says they've blocked me!

I know I shouldn't be bothered but the truth is I'm a sensitive old soul and it actually bothers me to the point I hardly do live games now! Not sure why those people in particular tend to be *******

@betterlate1-0 cheater confirmed

@dan Yeah, see, that makes more sense.

@roymccoy oh. Yeah that doesn't make sense. God knows what's going on. I don't think Lexulous even know themselves! Lmao.

@sillypsybin Yeah, that's proper weird actually. We need to find out where these dictionary people hold their meetings and crash one

@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 maybe contact Collins or Webster

@betterlate1-0 even if it's derogatory, it's still a word, isn't it? You cant just get the dictionary to remove words because you're offended by them.

@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/