The strange, the bizarre and the unexpected

[dannyb]

This is why I love to read the forum!!

[DrPlacebo]

Tried and unexpectedly got points for SUPERPHLOGISTICATION and SUPERPHLOGISTICATIONS.

Apparently the word "superphlogistication" has only ever been used once in published literature, in a paper that appeared in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society in 1789.

[JJBeanie]

Odd, but for some reason, other replys after the initial post by Adiposeur post didn't show up for me.

[JJBeanie]

I has a sad. The word "dipthong" was called invalid.

Did you mistype it in the game or just in your post? The correct spelling is "diphthong" and would/should have been accepted.

[adiposeur]

Diphthong is there! Face palm.

[dannyb]

A dipthong is a scanty bathing suit for a short stay in the pool.

[BoggleOtaku]

DIPHTHONGISE is a possibility...

[RussDNails]

Spelling is wrong.......it's "diphthong"........

[adiposeur]

I has a sad. The word "dipthong" was called invalid.
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[Naboka]

Here's an extreme example of poor typing producing a coup. Tried to type in rhabdo-myo-sarcomas with the -MYO-, but ended up missing the O and ending up with

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Just got to laugh sometimes. Sometimes failure leads to the most unexpected success.

[Naboka]

Sometimes I'm left scratching my head about why some word is acceptable and another word that it's based upon is not.

Apologies in advance for the scientific gibberish.

I did a board that accepted DIACETYLBENZENES but not acetylbenzenes. Granted acetophenone is the usual term for acetylbenezene but diacetylbenzene is usually preceded by a numerical indication of the position of the acetyl groups on the benzene ring such as 1,2-; 1,3-; 1,4-diacetylbenzene. Why one term didn't make the cut....

But, it's an old why-this-but-not-that word debate. Not everything makes the cut, and language evolves too quickly to keep up.

Excuse the outburst, I was simply left bereft, lacking reason, absorbed in an amygdala lamenting the loss of unrequited points.

Sniff.

Thank for letting me vent.

Ps: read this and saw so many typing errors. buy for by, to for too. my errant fingers are hitting so much garbage. Hope the surgery works

[hoople365]

Last night, I dreamt that Wordtwist had a new and cruel twist: for every mis-spelled word, points were deducted.
(It's because I'm always hammering away at the keyboard and throwing out words, in the hope that they're words)

[crazykate]

I accidentally typed GIUST instead of GUST, and it turns out it's actually a word and it was actually in the grid. It means the same as JOUST.

Makes sense! The German word for it is "Tjost", the pronunciation sounds very similar.

[Nylimb]

I accidentally typed GIUST instead of GUST, and it turns out it's actually a word and it was actually in the grid. It means the same as JOUST.

[DrPlacebo]

I didn't expect to get points for SENSIFICATION(S). Or, on the same board, for NONCAT(S).