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Words / Word suggestion - owie
« on: February 18, 2024, 03:26:24 PM »
Rather surprised "owie" is not a word.  I suspect pretty much any American parent knows and uses that word.  Perhaps it isn't that common in other places like England or Oz. 

Marrion-Webster:

owie
noun
ow·​ie ˈau̇-ē
plural owies
US, informal
: a usually minor injury (such as a bruise or a scratch)
—used by or for children or in imitation of children's speech

Dictionary.com

noun Baby Talk,

    a minor pain or injury; boo-boo: Headaches and other owies are quickly soothed with a hug and maybe a cool washcloth or a bandage.

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Words / Re: Word suggestion: uninstall
« on: February 18, 2024, 03:19:42 PM »
Sounds like a winner to me.

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Words / Re: Common? Really?? Spoiler alert
« on: June 25, 2023, 10:34:29 AM »
Kind words, Jacki - thanks for that.  Still leaves me wondering how words manage to get labeled common versus rare.

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Words / Common? Really?? Spoiler alert
« on: June 24, 2023, 11:57:19 AM »
From 6/23 standard puzzle:

Retsina listed as common.  I promised to give up on these discussions, but I am interested on how this word achieved common status.  Its just hard for me to believe this is more common than, say, restain.  You stain your deck.  Some years later you need to restain it.  Seems like an obvious word, could come up in casual conversation. OTOH, unless you are a wine expert, if find it unlikely you would be talking about a Greek wine.  So how do words achieve common status? What is the procedure?

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Words / nuts - spoiler alert
« on: August 31, 2022, 10:48:52 AM »
Just a heads up if you are trying for a perfect score:  Nuts still doesn't work.  I know, I know - stuns me too.   ???

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Words / nuts
« on: July 09, 2022, 03:29:15 PM »
Amazingly, nuts is still not accepted as a word.  Nuts is a plural of nut, but someone is never "nut," they are nus.  Guts is a plural of gut, but that one is OK.  I know I am a broken record but I just can't accept the reasoning on nuts.

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Words / Re: Nuts
« on: March 11, 2022, 01:06:15 PM »
So Alan stays consistent and "Nuts" is rejected again.  Well I can be consistent too.  I'm going to play it whenever it comes up.  Take that, Mr. Walker!

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Words / Word suggestion - aroar
« on: January 18, 2022, 12:28:48 PM »
Surprised when aroar was rejected.  Admittedly not found in a lot of dictionaries, but did find this in Merriam-Webster:

 aroar adjective



\ əˈ- \
Definition of aroar

: roaring

I see it in crosswords every now and then.  Propose it for a rare word in Chi

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Words / Nuts
« on: December 25, 2021, 11:31:19 AM »
Just tried it again.  Nuts still doesn't work.  Rats!

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Words / Re: Word suggestion
« on: July 20, 2021, 12:55:57 PM »
Hmmm.  Where is the emoji for egg-on-face? :-[  I wrote a note to myself and then did not notice why "resct" was rejected.  Will I ever learn?  Probably not.  Nuts!

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Words / Word suggestion
« on: July 19, 2021, 12:25:42 PM »
I was rather surprised in yesterday's 9-letter standard puzzle that resect was not accepted.  I am familiar with it from medical terminology.  From Collins:

Definition of 'resect'
Word Frequency
resect in American English
(rɪˈsɛkt )
verb transitive
Surgery
to perform a resection of (some part)

I've already figured out my vocabulary has a lot of uncommon words in it, but I think this one is still common enough to be a rare Chi word.

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Words / suggested word
« on: June 21, 2021, 09:15:23 AM »
I guess it must be pretty rare, but I was surprised that "selvia" was not a word.  Its the name of a flower and we have several of them in our gardens.  My wife loves them. I think it should be added.

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Words / Greek letters
« on: March 09, 2021, 03:01:10 PM »
So what is the rule on the Greek alphabet?  Without checking I assume alpha, beta, delta, gamma, sigma are common as is epsilon and, I am sure, omega.  But just discovered upsilon isn't.  I've stopped worrying about the common/uncommon conundrum because its clear whatever is used to make that distinction does not fit my lexicon very well.  So not taking a position, just wondering why upsilon isn't treated like the others.

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Words / Re: Jan 19 standard -s word (not exactly a spoiler
« on: January 24, 2021, 02:47:49 PM »
Quote from: Alan W on January 21, 2021, 04:38:13 PM
You made this suggestion yourself, Tom, in 2018 - see here. Somebody noted during that previous discussion that I'd declared a moratorium on all changes relating to the plurals rule; that is still the case!

Sorry, Alan.  One of the hazards of getting old is losing your memory.  OTOH, there is something to be said for consistency. ;D

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Words / Jan 19 standard -s word (not exactly a spoiler
« on: January 20, 2021, 02:01:48 PM »
Plural words with the rules of Chi can cause anomalies such as today.

The plural of Axe is Axes - banned by rule.  I get it.  But
Ax is also a word, and its plural is Axes
Axis is a word, and its plural is Axes.

Based especially on the latter, I suggest an override that add axes to the acceptable word list.

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