SINGULARLY ten letter challenge game

[Jacki]

I missed signally, slangy and unary.
Recalling T-Rex's words perhaps not exactly, but the gist being that "...a common word is one which when you see the solution you kick yourself for missing the word(s)."
I can assure you that I've never heard signally or slangy used before, let alone regularly.
Probably should have got unary.
A tough game where there were only three rosettes.

[mjpanic]

Cant profess to being an expert at this, I've certainly heard "signally" being used....but not regularly. I guess it relates to one's environment? "Slangy" I haven't heard, and as for "unary"....Jacki suggests that she probably should have got it! How does it qualify as common?

[mkenuk]

re unary.
Chi seems a bit inconsistent when it comes to mathematical terms.
At the same time that unary (common) appeared in the singularly 10-letter game, vectored was ranked 'uncommon' in the converted standard game.
Another frequent visitor to Chi games, surd, one of the first terms I learned when (briefly) studying calculus is also classed as 'rare'.
I'm not a mathematician, but in my opinion  unary is possibly the rarest of the three words I've mentioned.

[mkenuk]

I missed signally, slangy and unary.
I can assure you that I've never heard signally or slangy used before,

"Slangy" I haven't heard,

Well, you didn't have too long to wait to come across slangy again - in the following day's dashingly game!!
Hope you both played it this time!!

Welcome to the forum from me, by the way, mjpanic.

[Jacki]

Yes welcome mjpanic. Good question about unary - sometimes there are words you just subconsciously know and they come to you in Chi and I think unary is one of them although I can't recall ever playing it before. But slangy and signally sound stupid to me and I would have said they're not words! Like a while ago I found the word "painterly" to be in the same category however many other forumites said they were quite familiar with painterly.

[birdy]

A totally new word for me: unary.  I would have assumed it was a typo for unwary.

I have heard signally and slangy, though I wouldn't call them everyday words.

[Alan W]

Signally seems to have a stuffy, old-fashioned flavour, though it is still part of the current language. Meaning strikingly or notably, a recent example was in the UK magazine Prospect last month:

Only Rory Stewart has sought to lay out the hard truths: that the EU is dead set against renegotiating the withdrawal agreement; that there are no magical solutions to the Irish border waiting to be found; that no-deal would be an economic catastrophe; and that Theresa May’s deal is the only one on offer. However, he has signally failed to explain how he would get it through a House of Commons that has thrice rejected it.

I don't think the word is used often enough to warrant it remaining as a common word.

[Alan W]

I think MK is right about unary. It is less common than some mathematical words that are rightly classed as rare. (Surd was once treated as common, but I made it rare in 2009.)

Unary might be familiar to scholars of some of the more abstract branches of mathematics or formal logic. Negation of a number is a unary operation, because only one number is involved, whereas subtraction is a binary operation. In logic, NOT is a unary operation, while OR is binary.

Needless to say, it is not truly a common word, so it will be rare from now on.