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General Category => Words => Topic started by: Linda on May 01, 2007, 06:51:20 PM
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Alan - is there any reason we can't have 'swottier'? A word that has never been applied to myself!!!
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I have to admit to bitter disappointment when "dalek" was rejected!!!!!
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Binkie - I deal with bitter diappointment every time I play this game! Why, oh why, can I not get all the common words? More coffee needed to revitalise the grey matter!
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I have to ask ... Dalek I recognize (almost embarrassed to admit it :D) ... but Swottier??? I'm hoping I can put this down as North American ignorance of slang terms!!
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MMMM swottier.............some one who swots more then others????.........I could be wrong :-\
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Linda, I think "swottier" should be allowed, not to mention "swotty" and even "swottiest". (Of course it might be a long time before the letters come up again for any of these, especially the 9-letter "swottiest".)
For the benefit of Dean and other North Americans, to swot means to study very hard, and a swot is someone who studies very hard. It's a colloquialism from Britain, but also used in Australia and no doubt other countries. When a person is called a swot it often has a rather negative connotation - "Witherspoon Minor is a beastly swot!", sort of thing.
So "swotty" can mean very studious, or it could be used of a course of study or a school whose students are obliged to study very hard. And "swottier" is the same but more so. An example from someone's blog: "Other kids did: the ones who were geekier and swottier than me. They went to university and got themselves qualifications in abundance."
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I didn't think "dalek" could possibly qualify, but to my surprise, one of the few dictionaries that includes the word, Encarta, actually gives the all-lower-case form as an alternative spelling. And Wiktionary gives an example where someone wrote it that way when using it metaphorically - "croak-voiced daleks", referring to BBC managers. The only other place where I found the word being used with a little D was the Cut Out + Keep project, the Dalek Cupcake Army (http://www.cutoutandkeep.net/projects/dalek_cupcake_army/).
So, given the sentimental attachment some forum-ites seem to have for these loud-mouthed beings, I suppose I'd better add the word.
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Alan - thanks for allowing swottier etc. I'm sure I'll miss it next time it occurs!
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Yes, thanks for swottier (once I learned its meaning) and thanks, too, for NOT "exterminating" ;D the old sentimental crowd favorite, dalek!
By the by, when will we have another updated word list? They're starting to rack up again!
Cheers,
3-B
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By the by, when will we have another updated word list? They're starting to rack up again!
You're right! There are 12 by my count.
I've just added these new words. They're listed on the New Word List page (http://chi.lexigame.com/news/newwords.html). Please, everyone, let me know if I've missed any.
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Anonsi, I can't find "bathen" in any dictionary. Nor can I find any evidence of its use. Are you sure it's not a very local (i.e. within your family!) variant of "bathed"?