Surprising words not accepted

[Naboka]

Just did a game that didn't accept unmurmur, but took unmurmuring for 20 points. Even posting this, the unmurmur is underlined as misspelled, while the unmurmuring is accepted by the spellchecker. Guess there are technical/usage reasons, but... how do you build on a base that has no legitimacy?

[cosmicsweety]

Oh, that's interesting, and I just thought it was (part of) a football team.

Fun fact: The San Francisco 49rs are named for the 'miner forty niner's', which were in turn so named because during the gold rush they moved en masse to California in 1849.

[2cute]

The omission of NINER (now corrected) was particularly surprising because it's the most commonly heard of those. Not because of its normal meaning, but because it is used when speaking numbers aloud over poor communication channels (radio, telephones before the days of wideband audio) to avoid confusion with FIVE.

Oh, that's interesting, and I just thought it was (part of) a football team.

[ShirleyMarquez]

The omission of NINER (now corrected) was particularly surprising because it's the most commonly heard of those. Not because of its normal meaning, but because it is used when speaking numbers aloud over poor communication channels (radio, telephones before the days of wideband audio) to avoid confusion with FIVE.

[JJBeanie]

Apparently Snavel means to steal, snatch or pickpocket. I don't know about getting a beer from the fridge, unless its your dog doing it behind your back.

2cute, my dog wouldn't dare In Australia, to snavel something means to grab or get. It doesn't mean to steal or pickpocket here.

Love your cute frog avatar, BTW.

Thank you

[2cute]

I'm not sure if this is a surprising omission, but SNAVEL isn't accepted. It's an Aussie word meaning to grab or obtain, as in "Can you snavel me a beer from the fridge?"

Apparently Snavel means to steal, snatch or pickpocket. I don't know about getting a beer from the fridge, unless its your dog doing it behind your back.

Love your cute frog avatar, BTW.

[dannyb]

Booter and booters wasn't accepted.

[JJBeanie]

I'm not sure if this is a surprising omission, but SNAVEL isn't accepted. It's an Aussie word meaning to grab or obtain, as in "Can you snavel me a beer from the fridge?"

[FelixTheCat]

I'm surprised by some words that ARE accepted--NUDER for example. Once one is NUDE, how can one get any NUDER??? I find it quite amusing.

[bwt1213]

"Satired" is not accepted. I've seen it used as a verb at least as often as a noun.

[Spike1007]

Apparently it's spelled theremin. (I had to look it up.)

[bwt1213]

Theramin is not accepted. Seems eerie to me.

[BoggleOtaku]

NINER is a word now

[Nylimb]

This really surprised me: PREPEND is not accepted. It's in several online dictionaries, usually meaning to add something to the beginning of something else. However, Merriam-Webster defines it as "consider" or "premeditate". And https://www.pcmag.com/encyclopedia/term/prepend says "Although it sounds correct, prepend is not an English word.", and that the correct word is "prefix". But I think that "prefix" is rarely used as a verb, and that "prepend" is more common.

[RussDNails]

Sorry, should have clarified--easings is not an "American English" word but rather exclusively British.

Twoer has nothing to do with numbers--it's a type of marble.

Best,

Russ