Following discussion in another thread, I have tried to collect together all the outstanding requests for common words to be reclassified as not common for the purposes of the puzzle.
A few of them were disputed by some forumites, but the vast majority of such requests seem to have attracted no opposition. I say "seem to", because sometimes it's hard to be sure. If someone argues a certain word is not really common and another person says, "It's common to me," is the second person disagreeing with the proposed change? Probably not if they give a reason why the word is common to them: "As a keen gardener, I find this word very familiar." In other cases it's not so clear.
Anyhow, these are 17 words where I felt that opinion was divided about whether the word should remain as common:
BLOWSIEST
CARTHORSE
CONFUTING
FAIN
FRACTAL
HOYDEN
HUSSAR
LAIRD
NAIAD
NECROSIS
PURDAH
RECTO
SCHOOLMARM
SEGUING
SONATINA
SOUK
SPADEWORK
The following 96 words were not disputed as far as I can see. I will change them over the next week or so. It will take a little while to make all the changes, because I want to post in each forum topic to record the outcome, as well as updating the
Word List Suggestion page.
ACCURST
AGISM
APTEST
ATELIER
BACKHOE
BASEMAN
BASEMEN
BEMIRING
BUNTED
CAHOOT
CARREL
CHATELAINE
CHITIN
CICADAE
CLEANUP
COEVAL
COMPENDIA
CRUSTAL
DAMMIT
DEKKO
DIAMANTE
DIPSO
DIRNDL
DISTRAIT
DOGTROT
DURANCE
ENAMOUR
EXURBAN
FAUVE
FAVA
FESTAL
FILETING
FLACK
FLATCAR
FLATLET
FLIPPEST
GARFISH
GIMME
GUTTA
HALING
HUGER
INSTANTER
IRONSTONE
LEGATO
LUTENIST
MATERIEL
MEDIALLY
METERED
MIDMOST
MITRED
MOKE
MONAD
NAUTILI
NEONATE
NUTMEAT
ONETIME
OPENEST
ORMOLU
PARKY
PLASM
POLYTHENE
PONS
PORTIERE
PUBERTAL
RESTYLED
SANDLOT
SCARFED
SCARFING
SCROTA
SEREST
SEROTONIN
SHILL
SICCED
SICCING
SICKED
SLINKED
SNAFU
SOIGNEE
SOUSE
STALED
STEERSMAN
STEERSMEN
STERNA
SUNUP
SYLPH
TEMPERA
THORACES
TORUS
TRANCHE
TRUELOVE
UTERI
VERIEST
VERSO
VILLEIN
VULCANIZED
WALING
