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New word suggestion
« on: October 14, 2020, 03:24:36 PM »
In the 7 by many Tuesday October 13 I tried the word unfinancial and was disappointed that it was not known as it used all the letters. I checked several dictionaries and it was listed. Having been treasurer of several not-for-profit organisations I would prefer not to know the word unfinancial but unfortunately I do.

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Re: New word suggestion
« Reply #1 on: October 14, 2020, 03:45:17 PM »
First word I tried....couldn't believe the result!
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« Reply #2 on: October 14, 2020, 04:32:11 PM »
I also tried it , probably about four times as i kept coming back to it.

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« Reply #3 on: October 14, 2020, 09:21:59 PM »
Yep, me too.

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Re: New word suggestion
« Reply #4 on: October 15, 2020, 04:24:51 PM »
I've never heard of unfinancial - (even my semi-literate spell-checker has put a red line under it)
Neither COD nor Chambers has an entry for it.
But then I'm neither an Aussie nor a Kiwi.

A few seconds' research shows that COD does have a secondary meaning for 'financial' :-
 (Australia / New Zealand  informal) - 'possessing money'.
Rather similar, perhaps, to the banking expression 'in funds'?


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Re: New word suggestion
« Reply #5 on: October 15, 2020, 09:20:53 PM »
Meriam-Webster
Collins (suggestion 2012)
Wiktionary
Oxford

Not in Cambridge, MacMillan, Dictionary.com.

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Re: New word suggestion
« Reply #6 on: October 26, 2020, 11:55:44 AM »
This word is also well known to me, as a word for someone who is behind in their membership dues for an organization.

I think all the forumites who said they know the word are Australian. According to the OED unfinancial, in this sense, is now chiefly used in Australia, New Zealand and the Caribbean. It has 19th century examples from the north of England, but most of the 20th and 21st century citations are from the regions named. Corpus evidence confirms that the word is mainly used down under, although I did find a review of the Dictionary of American Regional English that mentioned the word as an example of the unusual expressions listed in that work. The review doesn't say which American region the word is used in.

Anyhow it's clear the word warrants inclusion, but definitely as a rare word.
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Re: New word suggestion
« Reply #7 on: October 27, 2020, 12:50:45 PM »
Thank you.

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Re: New word suggestion
« Reply #8 on: October 31, 2020, 03:44:42 PM »
And another word from 7 by many 30 October 2020

BIKKIE

I will accept it as uncommon but it is very  common in Oz.

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Re: New word suggestion
« Reply #9 on: October 31, 2020, 03:52:07 PM »
Yes, I tried BIKKIE too with no luck, but BREKKIE, on the other hand, was accepted as rare.

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« Reply #10 on: October 31, 2020, 05:24:43 PM »
For what it's worth, the COD shows both bicky and bikky, but not, alas, bikkie.

If Chi allows bikky, then bikkies should also be ok.
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Re: New word suggestion
« Reply #11 on: November 10, 2020, 02:31:37 PM »
Bikkie is also in fairly frequent use here in the UK. Though it's usually spelt as biccie here for some reason ...
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Re: New word suggestion
« Reply #12 on: November 22, 2020, 01:44:48 PM »
Yelnats asked for bikkie to be allowed. This is an informal word used in Britain, Australia, etc for biscuit, in the British sense of the word - also known as a cookie.

The possible spelling variants seem to be:

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bikkie, bikky, biccie, biccy, bickie and bicky

Up until now, we've accepted biccy and biccies in Chihuahua.

This is one of those words that is much more often spoken than written. I imagine most of us who use the word would have to stop and think if we needed to write it. And many of the people using the word are pre-literate toddlers. As a result, there's not a huge amount of evidence as to how it's mostly spelled. But it's not hard to find examples of all these six variants, so I'm going to admit them all, as rare words. Since we're accepting biccie, biccies will be treated as a plural from now on.

It's a bit of a pity that none of the plurals will be allowed, because bikkies, etc, is a distinctly Australian and NZ term for money, often in the phrase big bikkies.
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« Reply #13 on: November 22, 2020, 02:39:34 PM »
Some years ago, we had a Europrean teenage cousin come and stay with us for 6 months, and attend the local High School to broaden his horizons.

He is a lovely German, lad, who had a good command of ( High School ) English.

When we came home from the airport, our Aussie teenager said "wanna bikkie?"
( Would you like a biscuit ? )
The poor lad looked perplexed.