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PINATA.

It's in my ODE3 as piñata. The accented N should be allowed (DC suggested MAÑANA a couple of days ago). Is it not also in ODE2?

It does say "chiefly N. Amer.", but that to me implies it's an American word, rather than an American spelling of an English word.
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Graeme Cole wrote:PINATA.

It's in my ODE3 as piñata. The accented N should be allowed (DC suggested MAÑANA a couple of days ago). Is it not also in ODE2?

It does say "chiefly N. Amer.", but that to me implies it's an American word, rather than an American spelling of an English word.
Yep, exactly what you said. It'll be on apterous once we make the leap to ODE3.
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TUBIST^ nearly lost me a game just now. Either it's more obscure than I thought or the world outside of the US has some special secret word for "tuba player" that I don't know. XD
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Miriam Nussbaum wrote:TUBIST^ nearly lost me a game just now. Either it's more obscure than I thought or the world outside of the US has some special secret word for "tuba player" that I don't know. XD
Yeah, we just say tuba player (or, to put it another way, in my relatively extensive orchestral experience as a kid I never heard it called anything other than that).
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Michael Wallace wrote:
Miriam Nussbaum wrote:TUBIST^ nearly lost me a game just now. Either it's more obscure than I thought or the world outside of the US has some special secret word for "tuba player" that I don't know. XD
Yeah, we just say tuba player (or, to put it another way, in my relatively extensive orchestral experience as a kid I never heard it called anything other than that).
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I'd like to winge at the fact that WINGE isn't acceptable. :evil:
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Nick Boldock wrote:I'd like to winge at the fact that WINGE isn't acceptable. :evil:
Stick to whinging.
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Nick Boldock wrote:I'd like to winge at the fact that WINGE isn't acceptable. :evil:
Stick to whinging.
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I was really happy about spotting ¶, until I didn't get any points for it.
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spored :( Made worse by having valid, equal alternatives :lol:
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I just bombed out with FAJITA - surely one for the next dictionary??
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FAJITAS, CORNFLAKES, and GOUJONS are just three of the food-related words which are only valid in ODE2r as plural nouns. Yes, it's daft.
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Maybe suggested already,,,

'moonies'
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Nik Mackintosh wrote:Maybe suggested already,,,

'moonies'
Probably capitalised, if you referring to that Korean church movement.
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Oliver Garner wrote:
Nik Mackintosh wrote:Maybe suggested already,,,

'moonies'
Probably capitalised, if you referring to that Korean church movement.
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Appetise/appetize.
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WENGE

It's a tree. As per - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wenge

So why couldn't I have it? :-(

It's now a common wood for furniture finishes so not exactly obscure.
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Nick Boldock wrote:WENGE

It's a tree. As per - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wenge

So why couldn't I have it? :-(

It's now a common wood for furniture finishes so not exactly obscure.
Look's like it's capitalised.
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Ryan Taylor wrote:
Nick Boldock wrote:WENGE

It's a tree. As per - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wenge

So why couldn't I have it? :-(

It's now a common wood for furniture finishes so not exactly obscure.
Look's like it's capitalised.
Only in the Wiki title. Plenty of examples of normal usage when you look further down.

Oh well, wouldn't have mattered much anyway.
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Nick Boldock wrote:
Ryan Taylor wrote:
Nick Boldock wrote:WENGE

It's a tree. As per - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wenge

So why couldn't I have it? :-(

It's now a common wood for furniture finishes so not exactly obscure.
Look's like it's capitalised.
Only in the Wiki title. Plenty of examples of normal usage when you look further down.
Aye, it's in the two-volume Shorter Oxford and isn't capitalised. I guess it's just one of those deemed not common enough usage for the ODE.
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Charlie Reams wrote:
Graeme Cole wrote:PINATA.

It's in my ODE3 as piñata. The accented N should be allowed (DC suggested MAÑANA a couple of days ago). Is it not also in ODE2?

It does say "chiefly N. Amer.", but that to me implies it's an American word, rather than an American spelling of an English word.
Yep, exactly what you said. It'll be on apterous once we make the leap to ODE3.

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Soph K wrote:What is ODE3?
Oxford Dictionary of English 3rd edition.
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RUBBISHLY
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CASTED (bit of a cliche)
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Gavin Chipper wrote:RUBBISHLY
I think RUBBISHILY would be more likely (RUBBISHY is specified as an adjective) but yeah, both should be in. Or neither. I don't know.
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sear and it's inflections.
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JimBentley wrote:
Gavin Chipper wrote:RUBBISHLY
I think RUBBISHILY would be more likely (RUBBISHY is specified as an adjective) but yeah, both should be in.
I suppose RUBBISHILY makes more sense as RUBBISH is supposed to be a noun, but in terms of usage, I would imagine RUBBISHLY wins hands down. Mass nouns can end up getting used as adjectives which is what has happened here, and then you get the LY on the end to make an adverb.
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Rhys Benjamin wrote:sear and it's inflections.
sear and it's inflections are valid words. (Since they are short words, they are often not maxes, though.)
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Andrew Feist wrote:
Rhys Benjamin wrote:sear and it's inflections.
sear and it's inflections are valid words. (Since they are short words, they are often not maxes, though.)
The only one in is SEARED.
SEARING^ is not valid.
SEARER(S)^ are not valid.
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Has FAJITA/GOUJON been added to the new dictionary? Would be useful for J's.
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Rhys Benjamin wrote:
Andrew Feist wrote:
Rhys Benjamin wrote:sear and it's inflections.
sear and it's inflections are valid words. (Since they are short words, they are often not maxes, though.)
The only one in is SEARED.
SEARING^ is not valid.
SEARER(S)^ are not valid.
SEARING is valid, not sure where you're looking.
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Ian Volante wrote:
Rhys Benjamin wrote: The only one in is SEARED.
SEARING^ is not valid.
SEARER(S)^ are not valid.
SEARING is valid, not sure where you're looking.
And SEARER is not an inflection of SEAR, so I think that concludes the discussion.
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Burier^.
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Gavin Chipper wrote:
JimBentley wrote:
Gavin Chipper wrote:RUBBISHLY
I think RUBBISHILY would be more likely (RUBBISHY is specified as an adjective) but yeah, both should be in.
I suppose RUBBISHILY makes more sense as RUBBISH is supposed to be a noun, but in terms of usage, I would imagine RUBBISHLY wins hands down. Mass nouns can end up getting used as adjectives which is what has happened here, and then you get the LY on the end to make an adverb.
Anyway Google says:

RUBBISHLY - 24,300
RUBBISHILY - 152 and the added embarrassment of "Did you mean: rubbishly"
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'yeasts' - it's possible that yeast is only defined in the mass noun sense in ODE, but having searched for it in the recaps it looks like it turns up as a plural in the definition for TORULA.
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futsal

DEFINITION - Indoor footy.
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Now as you will gather I haven't been here long but already have managed to upset the Gods of the Dictionaries on numerous occasions, and not always through optimistic spelling.

No doubt some of these have already been mentioned but I haven't had time to trawl through the whole thread, so apologies.

Inevitably I've been tricked into offering "conmen", and I'm sure I'm not the first. A friend in IT has often referred to her programs "abending" - this has clearly never occurred at OED. Still that's only been happening for 40 years or so, they'll catch up eventually. If I remember rightly it took them a long time to recognise remarriage as valid, despite Henry VIII's best efforts.

Personally my hair can apparently be uncut but not "unparted", even if it is. I can be fatter or thinner but not "rotunder". Playing cribbage I can not "outpeg" my opponent nor "redeal" the cards if I mess up the first time. I could swear I've done both of these.

And as a violinist in my youth I frequently used to mark my "bowings" on the copy, although perhaps to claim I might "overtune" my instrument was going too far.

In the interests of decency I can see why the GoDs would discourage "fannier" but I reckon I can bare my buttocks at them and be a "mooner" whether they like it or not. They don't.
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Keith Bennett wrote:Now as you will gather I haven't been here long but already have managed to upset the Gods of the Dictionaries on numerous occasions, and not always through optimistic spelling.

No doubt some of these have already been mentioned but I haven't had time to trawl through the whole thread, so apologies.

Inevitably I've been tricked into offering "conmen", and I'm sure I'm not the first. A friend in IT has often referred to her programs "abending" - this has clearly never occurred at OED. Still that's only been happening for 40 years or so, they'll catch up eventually. If I remember rightly it took them a long time to recognise remarriage as valid, despite Henry VIII's best efforts.

Personally my hair can apparently be uncut but not "unparted", even if it is. I can be fatter or thinner but not "rotunder". Playing cribbage I can not "outpeg" my opponent nor "redeal" the cards if I mess up the first time. I could swear I've done both of these.

And as a violinist in my youth I frequently used to mark my "bowings" on the copy, although perhaps to claim I might "overtune" my instrument was going too far.

In the interests of decency I can see why the GoDs would discourage "fannier" but I reckon I can bare my buttocks at them and be a "mooner" whether they like it or not. They don't.

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terabyte, petabyte, and exabyte are all good. As are megabit and gigabit. So, why not terabit, petabit, and exabit?

Similarly, Propane, propene, and butane are good -- why not butene?

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My opponent and i both declared denotable and we were both surprised it wasnt valid
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After yesterday's episode, it seemed particularly ironic that 'TOUGHED' was disallowed in a game I played last night...
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Jennifer Steadman wrote:After yesterday's episode, it seemed particularly ironic that 'TOUGHED' was disallowed in a game I played last night...
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Graeme Cole wrote:PINATA.
Haha, just keeping on seeing this at the top of the page makes me smile. :)
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KNIVED.

How is this not acceptable?!
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Jennifer Steadman wrote:KNIVED.

How is this not acceptable?!
KNIFED, I suspect. Plural takes the V.
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Oh, god, of course... SERIOUS STUPID MOMENT THERE. I'm wearing my mortified face.

Though 'knived' sounds better than 'knifed'. In my head, at least.
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Jennifer Steadman wrote:Oh, god, of course... SERIOUS STUPID MOMENT THERE. I'm wearing my mortified face.

Though 'knived' sounds better than 'knifed'. In my head, at least.
Makes sense really. If you called a thief a fieth (you might do this so go along with it), someone who stole something coul be said to have fiethed it. And think how you would pronounce that. It's the same linguistic rule. How would you pronounce SHEATHED?
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PORNOS.

and, carrying on the sex note, 'RANDIER' - how is 'RANDIEST' allowed but not its comparative version? OUTRAGEOUS :x
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Jennifer Steadman wrote:and, carrying on the sex note, 'RANDIER' - how is 'RANDIEST' allowed but not its comparative version? OUTRAGEOUS :x
RANDIER is allowed.

(Edit: looks like you had it disallowed earlier, but that's because there wasn't an N.)
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Graeme Cole wrote:
Jennifer Steadman wrote:and, carrying on the sex note, 'RANDIER' - how is 'RANDIEST' allowed but not its comparative version? OUTRAGEOUS :x
RANDIER is allowed.

(Edit: looks like you had it disallowed earlier, but that's because there wasn't an N.)
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Onboard has caught a lot of people out. It was even accepted without question at a Co-event.

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Liam Tiernan wrote:Onboard has caught a lot of people out. It was even accepted without question at a Co-event.
ONBOARD should be allowed. The usual sense meaning situated on or in a vehicle is hyphenated, but ODE3 gives a second sense ("denoting or controlled from a facility or feature incorporated into the main circuit board of a computer or computerized device") without the hyphen.
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I'm not saying that these should be in - they were rejected for reasons ranging to hyphens to capital letters to American spellings to just plain old not being words. But I am surprised that they weren't allowed.

SURFERS
MORESO
COMBOVER
UNDERWAY
MEAGER
ARBITORS
TOODLES
ROASTIES
MOUSEMAT
UNPOSTED
DRUIDS
UPDATER
AEGILOPS
BOWTIE
HOTCAKES
ENROLLS
MAZINESS
HENTAI
SEESAW


And OUTSETS, obviously.

And SCATMEN.

But maybe not SEDUCTED.
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Mark Deeks wrote:SURFERS
SURFERS is allowed on apterous, it's just that you only had the one S.
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See, that's why you're better than me.
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Mark Deeks wrote:HENTAI
I had CREAMPIE disallowed. The porn industry is clearly way ahead of the people who make dictionaries.
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Mark James wrote:
Mark Deeks wrote:HENTAI
I had CREAMPIE disallowed. The porn industry is clearly way ahead of the people who make dictionaries.
HOGTIED is my personal classic "oops, porn only" word.
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Matt Morrison wrote:
Mark James wrote:
Mark Deeks wrote:HENTAI
I had CREAMPIE disallowed. The porn industry is clearly way ahead of the people who make dictionaries.
HOGTIED is my personal classic "oops, porn only" word.
Not a "porn only" word to those of us who grew up watching the likes of "Bonanza" "The High Chapparal" "The Virginian"or "The Big Valley". In my defence I have to say that: a) I was 8 b) westerns were still fashionable (though not for much longer) and c) we only had one channel.
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Feel free to hang around in the corner with the clowns who see an innocent use for CREAMPIE too.
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