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General Category => Words => Topic started by: Jacki on March 26, 2023, 12:13:47 AM

Title: Neuritis in the UNIVERSITY ten letter game
Post by: Jacki on March 26, 2023, 12:13:47 AM
Played by 20 (to be honest I’m surprised so many knew it) from 249 players, neuritis is apparently a common word? I pressed on it to see its meaning and it’s a nervous condition.
Now I’m not saying it’s not a perfectly valid word, but I would like to ask that it be reclassified as rare because I’ve never heard of it and given the numbers over 90% of players haven’t either.
Title: Re: Neuritis in the UNIVERSITY ten letter game
Post by: Morbius on March 26, 2023, 08:03:32 AM
I agree.  It's certainly not common to me.
Title: Re: Neuritis in the UNIVERSITY ten letter game
Post by: lilys field on March 26, 2023, 09:40:56 AM
Truly ,, i wish this were a rare word but expect it is quite well known.
Title: Re: Neuritis in the UNIVERSITY ten letter game
Post by: Jacki on March 26, 2023, 06:51:31 PM
You’re so sweet - it sounds like in your post you think I’ll be devastated if it’s kept as common! It’s ok - I think the low numbers who found it (in this game anyway) is testament to it being rare. I’ve asked a handful of people if they’ve heard of the word, and none have and they’ve been aged from about fifty to eighty and I would call them well-educated people. And with lots of medical conditions and experience between them!!
Don’t worry I’ll abide by the umpire’s decision.
Title: Re: Neuritis in the UNIVERSITY ten letter game
Post by: Alan W on April 04, 2023, 01:37:22 PM
It does seem that neuritis is not a common word. I'm not sure whether I'd encountered it before, though its meaning is easy to guess: inflammation of the nerves.

Looking at the Google ngram viewer and the COHA corpus, it appears that the word was more frequently used many years ago - around the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries (ngram) or in the 1920s and 1930s (COHA). Has the condition become less common? Probably not. Since many different ailments can cause inflammation of the nerves - auto-immune conditions, infectious diseases, physical injury - the term neuritis might not be used by a medico explaining a patient's condition. There may be people who have suffered from neuritis without ever knowing the word.

I'll make neuritis a rare word. For your information, the plural can be either neuritises or neuritides. Both words are accepted in Chi, and have always been, and will remain, rare.
Title: Re: Neuritis in the UNIVERSITY ten letter game
Post by: Jacki on April 04, 2023, 03:23:45 PM
Thank you