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Words / aircon
« on: September 22, 2021, 10:23:40 AM »
Does anyone else know or use the word aircon as an abbreviation for air-conditioning?
It's not part of Chi's lexicon, and COD has only AC /ac as short forms.

I know from experience, however. that the word is in common usage among English speakers in hot countries and Google Ngram viewer will testify to its popularity. Maybe it is hyphenated, but I will still suggest it as an addition to Chi's vocab list.
 
After all, if situation comedy can become sitcom, why not aircon?

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Words / suggestion - notator
« on: September 21, 2021, 02:50:25 PM »
notator - 'one who notates'.

re the exonerate 7bm game

'not known' in Chi, but known by COD ('in which we trust')

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Words / nucleoli common?
« on: September 16, 2021, 04:06:35 PM »
re the recent 7bm game.

There were actually two 'seed words' - nucleonic which was 'rare' and managed to muster 73 hits from a 'playership' of 351.
That was still more than the 'common' seed word (nucleoli) which had 52!

I got them both, but only because, having seen and played nuclei, I checked the COD to see if nucleic was also a word. That's when I spotted the other two, further down the page.

I think nuclei should remain common, although there has been a tendency to 'downgrade' Latin plurals, but the others?



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Whatever / Emma Raducanu
« on: September 12, 2021, 09:34:15 AM »
First of all, let me congratulate Emma Raducanu on a magnificent victory in the US Ladies' Open tennis Championship. A great achievement.
We can be sure that the British tabloids will devote their front pages to this young lady for the next few weeks. The Queen will send her telegrams and give her medals and no doubt the Abominable Johnson will claim that it couldn't possibly have happened under a Labour Government.

There is one slight niggle in my mind however - Ms Raducanu was born in Canada to a Chinese mother and a Romanian father. She came with her family to England when  she was two years old.
How come she's British?

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Words / pressurise uncommon?
« on: September 08, 2021, 04:11:00 PM »
re yesterday's purifies 7bm game

pressurise was played by just under 50% of those playing this game (154 from 339) Even spies had only a few more hits (163)
The word itself is hardly unknown - you hear it in the pre-flight announcements every time you are on an aircraft - 'The air in the cabin is pressurized......'
I know the trend these days is to spell such words with an ...ize ending, but I rather had the feeling that Chi gave both forms equal status. Surely pressurize is not also 'rare'??

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Words / covid
« on: September 05, 2021, 10:57:56 AM »
I noticed covid among the words in yesterday's conceived standard game.

Classed as 'rare'.

Hm. Would that it were.

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Words / retext - unknown?
« on: August 30, 2021, 09:33:10 AM »
re the recent extricate challenge game.

In Chi, you can remail, repost, reship and resend.
Why can you not retext? ('Sorry, not known').

Also, on the subject of texting - something that most of us do almost every day - shouldn't 'texter' perhaps be classed as 'common'?

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Words / gestate (uncommon). Really?
« on: August 23, 2021, 09:39:07 PM »
re the recent vaguest 7-by many game.

gestate was played by well over 50% of those who took part in the game (190 from 355); even suggest only had one more hit;
I seem to recall that gestation has appeared as a seed-word at some time in the past; perhaps Alan could confirm or deny this.
Whatever, I would suggest that, for once, instead of reclassifying a 'common' word as 'rare', we should do the opposite and make gestate common.

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Whatever / Afghanistan
« on: August 16, 2021, 10:23:10 AM »
The situation gets more serious by the hour. We are witnessing a humanitarian disaster in the process of happening. What can the rest of the world do to prevent this?
I do not [as some seem to be doing] blame Joe Biden

The US are not, despite what some of Mr Biden's predecessors seemed to believe, the world's policeman.

Is this not the kind of situation that the UN was brought into existence to resolve?
However, looking back on the UN's record in Bosnia, Rwanda and other disaster areas of the last 70+ years, I am not too hopeful here.

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Words / hyphens - again!
« on: August 11, 2021, 03:23:48 PM »
Consider three words from yesterday's 7-by-many game disposing

sing-song - hyphenated in COD - 'common' in Chi
ding-dong - hyphenated in COD - 'rare' in Chi
ping-pong - hyphenated in COD - 'sorry not known' in Chi

There would seem to be neither rhyme nor reason to it.
My suggestion, one I've made before, is to ignore hyphens completely and allow any word that is shown unhyphenated in any authoritative dictionary.
Any other suggestions?

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Words / mintiness?
« on: August 01, 2021, 03:05:57 PM »
Is there really no word 'mintiness' in English?
I tried it in yesterday's 7-by-many and got 'sorry, not known.'
'mintiest' seems ok (rare).


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Words / Druid
« on: July 28, 2021, 10:46:35 AM »
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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Whatever / sad
« on: July 12, 2021, 08:06:05 AM »
All Englishmen at the moment.

Congratulations, Italy. You played very well
England did well too, but were once again beaten by their nerves during the penalty shootout.


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Whatever / The Mind Boggles....
« on: July 10, 2021, 11:56:57 AM »
I've just been reading about the large fine (90 million pounds) imposed on 'Southern Water', the privately owned Utility. which has as its remit the provision of water and sewage services to much of southern England.
Over a period of several years this company (owned ultimately by a bunch of nameless bankers, financiers etc) dumped billions of litres of raw, untreated sewage directly into the sea around England's coastline.
 
This is the part that makes me seethe:

'In mitigation, Southern, which pleaded guilty to all 51 counts, argued the sewage dumping had not been deliberate.'

How in the name of all that is holy can such crimes be committed accidentally?



Secondly, even though the fine was huge, it was still less than they would have paid had they done everything by the book

The dumping afforded the company “considerable financial advantage” because it avoided penalties of more than £90m,


Has the company's licence been revoked? Not in a million years. They have too many friends in high places for that to happen.

 




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Words / word suggestion - boogaloo
« on: June 30, 2021, 11:00:49 AM »
I tried to play boogaloo, a style of Latin jazz dance music, in the recent 7-by-many ballooning game bot got 'sorry, not known'.
It's in COD as a single word written with a small 'b' and it also has a page on Wikipedia.
I gather from that that it has also been adopted as the name of some far-rabid-right American political movement, but that seems to be capitalized.

If accepted, it would probably only appear in the 7-by many game  - four 'o's in a Standard game might be a bit much!

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