Surprising words not accepted

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  • Nylimb
    Member
    • Mar 2015
    • 40

    #121
    COLATION, defined as "The act or process of straining or filtering", is accepted, but COLATIONS is not.

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    • Nylimb
      Member
      • Mar 2015
      • 40

      #122
      FAKENESS, "the condition of being fake", is not accepted.

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      • Nylimb
        Member
        • Mar 2015
        • 40

        #123
        TYPER is not accepted. It means someone who types; unlike TYPIST it doesn't imply that the person types professionally.

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        • BoggleOtaku
          Member
          • Feb 2019
          • 174

          #124
          That made me think of Fluter, Violiner, Soloer; there's a whole slew of similar cases without a suitable word to separate amateur from professional. On the flip side, how about workist for a professional worker, or sun tannist, or runnist?

          Maybe, at least in some of these cases, there is lack of motivation at least on one side to make such a distinction, and thus the lack of a word.

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