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General Category => Words => Topic started by: mkenuk on July 28, 2021, 10:46:35 AM
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Could someone please explain why Druid, a practitioner of a religion, is allowed as 'common' in Chi (Druidic is 'rare'), while Muslim, a practitioner of another religion and Islamic both get 'sorry, not known'?
All four words are capitalized in COD, in which we trust.
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in COD, in which we trust.
You deserve a dollar for that pun, Mike
(https://www.greatamericancoincompany.com/a/info/uploads/in-god-we-trust-02.jpg)
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No disrespect to either the Deity or to the great man whose picture adorns the coin.
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My assumption is that "druid" is more like "priest" or "rabbi". I might be wrong though.
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The online Macmillan dictionary gives two definitions for Druid:
- a priest in the ancient Celtic religion
- a member of a modern religious group with similar beliefs to the ancient Druids
The second sense is the more recent one, and many dictionaries don't give such a meaning. Logically, you might expect the word to be written without a capital letter for the priest meaning and capitalized for the member of a religion. However it seems that, if anything, the word was more likely to be capitalized in years gone by, when it generally referred to a priest, soothsayer, bard, etc.
In any case, it appears that the word is still written with a capital letter most of the time, so it is likely that some players will not have noticed the word written in all lower case letters. In future it will be treated as a rare word.