Resources for those partaking:
You will need: 1 Spindlex, 1 ODE, and 1 strong cup of coffee.
Cooking instructions
1. Post in here or email me (charlie@apterous.org) to reserve a block of the dictionary.
2. Open the dictionary at the relevant page.
3. Open Spindlex and read the instructions (fairly simple, the keyboard shortcuts make life easier but you can get started without them).
4. Get typing!
5. If/when you finish your block, let me know, and you can have another one if you want.
Current blocks
Page range [Word range] Reserved by...
1 - 101 [A - attention deficit disorder]: Charlie. Done. Words: 2,544. (Ran over by 1 page, oops.)
102 - 159 [attentive - ?]: Kai.
160 - 200 [? - bound]: Maxine.
201 - 300 [boundary - chime]: Neb.
301 - 349 [chimenea - communication]: Innis. Done.
350 - 400 [communication cord - ?]: Charlie. Done.
401 - 410 [coxswain - criticality]: Jimmy. Done.
411 - 450 [critical angle - ?]: Howard. Done.
451 - 500 [declarer - disorientate]: Charlie and Damian. Done.
501 - 600 [disown - eventing]: Maxine. Done.
601 - 700 [eventive-function word]: Paul.
701 - 804 [functor-hedgehod]: Sid. Done. Words: 1,682.
805 - 900 [hedgehog fungus - intendment]: Ben Hunter (Note: weird alignment because Sid got a bit overexcited by hedgehogs]
901 - 1000 [intense - leg warmer]: Raccoon. Done. Words: 1,948.
1001 - 1102 [legwork - metabolize]: Sid. Done. Words: 1,311.
1103 - 1111 [metacarpal - mien]: Kirk.
1112 - 1200 [Mies van de Rohe - Northern Marianas]: Jim.
1201 - 1220 [Northern Paiute - office]: Ian V. Done. Words: 422.
1221 - 1300 [office-bearer - penalize]: Charlie. Done. Words: 2,437.
1301 - 1400 [Penal Laws - privateer]: Lesley. Done. Words: 3,018.
1401 - 1500 [privateersman - respite]: Sid. Done. Words: 2,976.
1501 - 1550 [respite care - sacking]: Damian. Done.
1551 - 1600 [sack lunch - self]: Ian
1601 - 1700 [self-abandonment - speedball]: Howard. Done.
1701 - 1720 [speedboat - Stainer]: Howard. Done.
1721 - 1740 [stainless - stole]: Andy.
1741 - 1761 [stolen - substituent]: Done.
1761 - 1800 [substitute - Tammany]: Howard. Done.
1801 - 1810 [Tammerfors - ?]: James.
1811 - 1900 [? - turn]: Jimmy. Done.
1901 - 2000 [turnabout - wept]: Charlie. Done. Words: 2,907.
2001 - 2054 [were - Zyrian]: Charlie. Done. Words: 1,446.
The rest of the workload is currenly unallocated. Let us know if you'd like to join in the fun! You don't have to reserve a full block of 100 pages, if you'd like to try something a bit smaller then let me know.
Tips
- All words of 10 letters or longer should be added, provided they meet the usual rules (no proper nouns, no US spellings, no words that only appear in phrases, no hyphens etc). This includes words which look very unlikely to come up; who knows what variants we might one day play?!
- Remember to check for shorter words in the dictionary which may have implicit inflections of 10 letters or more, e.g. AIRMAIL -> AIRMAILING.
- All inflections of subentries should be entered, however dubious this might be. For example, AIRLESSNESS is listed as a small subentry of AIRLESS, and says only "noun", so we have to assume that AIRLESSNESSES is valid.
- You can enter words of 9 letters or less into Spindlex, it will just silently ignore them.
- Don't worry too much about any one word!