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Peccary in yesterday’s ten letter challenge
« on: January 13, 2024, 09:27:13 PM »
Ok so 34 from 250 odd players found PECCARY - a common word apparently- which I did not. It’s pretty uncommon in my view. What do others think? I’d hate to ask Alan to review its status if you all thought it was common. 
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Re: Peccary in yesterday’s ten letter challenge
« Reply #1 on: January 13, 2024, 10:58:38 PM »
Never heard of it  :P
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Re: Peccary in yesterday’s ten letter challenge
« Reply #2 on: January 14, 2024, 03:13:20 AM »
I knew it was a breed of pig -  but that didn't mean that I was on of the few who got it! Not common.
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Re: Peccary in yesterday’s ten letter challenge
« Reply #3 on: January 14, 2024, 10:15:45 AM »
Although it was one of the first words I found, not sure it is truly common.
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Re: Peccary in yesterday’s ten letter challenge
« Reply #4 on: January 14, 2024, 11:55:18 AM »
Seems common enough to me.
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Re: Peccary in yesterday’s ten letter challenge
« Reply #5 on: January 14, 2024, 12:02:57 PM »
I got it, but didn’t think it would be commonly known.

( The other animal that I am surprised is classed as rare in Chi is the meerkat. I realise this is changing the subject of the thread. Is that considered naughty? )
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Re: Peccary in yesterday’s ten letter challenge
« Reply #6 on: January 14, 2024, 12:21:46 PM »
Quote from: Wibbly Bits on January 14, 2024, 12:02:57 PM
I got it, but didn’t think it would be commonly known.

( The other animal that I am surprised is classed as rare in Chi is the meerkat. I realise this is changing the subject of the thread. Is that considered naughty? )

He's not the Messiah, he's just a very naughty boy...  ;D ;D ;D
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Re: Peccary in yesterday’s ten letter challenge
« Reply #7 on: January 14, 2024, 02:06:23 PM »
I don’t think it’s naughty. Live a little! Meerkat seems common to me and peccary not common. Swap them over perhaps?
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Re: Peccary in yesterday’s ten letter challenge
« Reply #8 on: January 14, 2024, 04:32:39 PM »
Sounds good to me, and we could knock off 2 mammals with the one projectile.   :D
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Re: Peccary in yesterday’s ten letter challenge
« Reply #9 on: January 14, 2024, 11:02:36 PM »
My vote would be for both words to be common. (Even thought I've never actually played either of them 😆.)
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Re: Peccary in yesterday’s ten letter challenge
« Reply #10 on: January 16, 2024, 01:41:59 PM »
Well with those responses it seems like more think peccary is not a commonly known word. In my household no one had heard of it. Obviously now I have and fantastic to increase my vocab however can I ask you to review the status of peccary please Alan when you get time. Thank you.
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Re: Peccary in yesterday’s ten letter challenge
« Reply #11 on: January 16, 2024, 02:48:53 PM »
Well, I didn't play peccary myself, so that naturally predisposes me to class it as rare. Had I heard of the word? I think so, but I wasn't sure what it means.

The word appears fairly infrequently in publications and websites - 0.01 times per million in the News on the Web corpus and 0.02 times per million in the Corpus of Global Web-Based English. This is certainly a lot less often than meerkat. I feel that it ought to be in the rare category, so I'll change both peccary and peccaries to rare.

Wibbly Bits, if changing the subject is naughty, then all the regular forum contributors should be standing in the corner. As it happens, the rare status of meerkat was queried in 2021 by Morbius. I haven't yet responded to that, but I will soon.
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Re: Peccary in yesterday’s ten letter challenge
« Reply #12 on: January 16, 2024, 03:47:40 PM »
Nice to know I’m in the company of such a wonderful bunch of rogues.  ;D  Thanks Alan.
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Re: Peccary in yesterday’s ten letter challenge
« Reply #13 on: January 16, 2024, 04:05:50 PM »
Quote from: Alan W on January 16, 2024, 02:48:53 PM
Wibbly Bits, if changing the subject is naughty, then all the regular forum contributors should be standing in the corner. As it happens, the rare status of meerkat was queried in 2021 by Morbius. I haven't yet responded to that, but I will soon.

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Re: Peccary in yesterday’s ten letter challenge
« Reply #14 on: January 16, 2024, 04:32:16 PM »
That made me laugh out loud. Thank you Alan.
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