Wordtwist Dictionary Update

[dannyb]

I'm surprised "outen" was rejected. I'm Pennsylvania Dutch by heritage and spent my earliest years in PA; "outen the lights" sounds perfectly natural to me.

How about yuns?

[BoredInTheCar]

I'm surprised "outen" was rejected. I'm Pennsylvania Dutch by heritage and spent my earliest years in PA; "outen the lights" sounds perfectly natural to me.

[Naboka]

A good friend of mine at about age 10 told her elementary school science teacher that she wanted to be a herpetologist. She actually did become one.

Good for her. Lot of good in reptiles and amphibians.

Every spring brings a serenade from our ponds.

One of the opportunity costs of becoming a herpetologist would have been my wife. No way would she have married one. When we ride the trails and she sees a snake she screams. Just can't help it. I always stop and shoo them off the trail so no one will run over them.

Lot of interbreeding makes identifying snakes more difficult these days.

Sometimes different snakes will shake their tails like a rattler. They aren't. Just harmless snakes standing their ground.

[dannyb]

A good friend of mine at about age 10 told her elementary school science teacher that she wanted to be a herpetologist. She actually did become one.

I told my second grade teacher that I wanted to become a teacher. She must have laughed for five minutes.

[JedMedGrey]

A good friend of mine at about age 10 told her elementary school science teacher that she wanted to be a herpetologist. She actually did become one.

[Naboka]

I'm noticing that even boards that have upwards of 400 ultra rare words, which is a new thing, I'm struggling to put up high scores or find a lot of words. I guess I don't know any of the new words I should be looking for.

Yes, but think of the opportunities.

A simple term like groziers didn't seem to work before. Maybe now.

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[Brisul]

I'm noticing that even boards that have upwards of 400 ultra rare words, which is a new thing, I'm struggling to put up high scores or find a lot of words. I guess I don't know any of the new words I should be looking for.

[Naboka]

[QUOTE=admin;n31119]ARK is 100% a word - in fact it is in the original game dictionary, and appears in over 1,360 games. If you ever find a game where that word is legitimately unplayable please post a screenshot of the board so I can double check it, but as far as I can tell, it is definitely in the mix.[/QUOTE

Thanks.

Ark plays frequently.

Things I write are often obscure. My apologies for adding to your workload.

No work will ever include all the words we create. Your efforts are much appreciated. The boards are already more fun.

Finding the rare missing word from your dictionaries probably stems from the smug student trying to one-up the teacher.

[admin]

ARK is 100% a word - in fact it is in the original game dictionary, and appears in over 1,360 games. If you ever find a game where that word is legitimately unplayable please post a screenshot of the board so I can double check it, but as far as I can tell, it is definitely in the mix.

[admin]

Augean is always capitalized, it seems, and therefore is treated similarly to a proper noun, which traditionally wouldn’t be allowed in word games.

Ark feels like a genuine miss if it really isn’t in the new dictionary - I’m out of the office til Sunday but will check when I get back.

[BaronTopor]

I disagreeth with the removeth of Olde Words, which remain in use, if limited, and proper constructions such as nubilest, as well as insult words. If people are so easily offended, they should not play.

[Naboka]

Dear Admin,

I...

hesitate...

recognizing the augean task of putting the expanded dictionary in play...

all those long, thankless hours...

with the wolves howling at the door...

blizzards burying the firewood.

I hesitate to note that..."augean" does not seem to play.

And, dare I ask, did various taxonomic catagories also miss the Ark as it sallied forth into the storm?

There were so many, many taxonomic groupings left on the shore last time. So many games played, tears falling, remembering forgotten taxonomic families and sub families
drowned in the oblivious cat 5 storm sweeping coastal Wordtwist.

But...

least you think this unappreciative...

every letter was marinated in gratitude before being gently placed in this pan for searing and roasting.

ps: having aspired at 12 to herpetology, discovering "atroxase" now plays when once it did not...

priceless.

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[bwt1213]

It's probably more of an American English term, dating from the 1960s and popularized during the Vietnamese war, but still widely used as an anti-Asian slur today. Middle letters are O-O.

Actually, it began during the Korean war. The Korean word for "American" is "migook", and for "Korea" is "Hanguk". The slang usage began almost immediately and at least at first was relatively innocent. It became more derogatory later, and by the time of Vietnam it was only used in a derogative way to refer to anyone Asian. And yes, "gunk" is another term for the stuff in grease traps and oilpans. But I've heard the other term used even more commonly for the same thing. When I was a kid, I heard it all the time used to refer to swamp mud -- the black, smelly, sticky stuff no one wanted any part of. Perhaps the derogatory meaning has completely taken over while I wasn't watching.

[crazykate]

It's probably more of an American English term, dating from the 1960s and popularized during the Vietnamese war, but still widely used as an anti-Asian slur today. Middle letters are O-O.

Thanks for explaining! I was worrying that I might end up inadvertently using an offensive term that I didn't know about.

[admin]

It's probably more of an American English term, dating from the 1960s and popularized during the Vietnamese war, but still widely used as an anti-Asian slur today. Middle letters are O-O.