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Agreed. When I type a good word that isn’t accepted, I usually just stop playing that days puzzle. My guess is that Sam is not very scientifically literate. Sim
by robsh 3y ago
Agreed. When I type a good word that isn’t accepted, I usually just stop playing that days puzzle. My guess is that Sam is not very scientifically literate. Simple weather words like cyclonic or adiabatic, advection, no dice. And then you get some pretty obscure literary words.
Makes me want to make a free clone that includes science words, and isn’t afraid of the letter S.
- lozenge 3y agoIt feels like they could just use something like the Google Ngram viewer to filter the words.
- 1over137 3y agoAnd so many "non-American" words are rejected too like: whinge, colour, metre, etc.
- CamperBob2 3y ago"Whinge" is just a plain old misspelling of "Whine," nothing more or less. We don't need "Whinge" to become a word; we already have "Whine."
- olddustytrail 3y agoNo it isn't. What gave you that daft idea?
- CamperBob2 3y agoIt's a stupid word, one that we don't need. 'Whine' works just fine. Why was it necessary to add a 'g'? You can see 'whinge' gaining ground very recently at the expense of 'whine' here: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=whine%2Cwhinge&year_start=1800&year_end=2019&corpus=en-2019&smoothing=3 https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=whine%2Cwhinge... This is an outrage, and must be stopped. :-P
- ChainOfFools 3y agono homophones. whine shares a phonemic address with wine, while whinge staked out a plot of its very own, even if its just a slapdash pop-up tent next door to the local drunkard, binge. hinge shares a smartly bricked-up border with both.
- seanhunter 3y ago"Whinge" definitively is a word[1] and has existed since old English. [1] https://www.oed.com/search/dictionary/?scope=Entries&q=Whinge https://www.oed.com/search/dictionary/?scope=Entries&q=Whing...
- CamperBob2 3y agoWell, it shouldn't be. It's entirely redundant with 'whine'.
- seanhunter 3y agoWhere do you stand on "guarantee" vs "warranty"? That's not to mention common phrases with a built-in redundancy such as "Cease and desist"? "Face mask"? "Free gift"? Idiomatic English has lots of redundancies of one kind or another.
- CamperBob2 3y agoThose aren't really redundant, though. I can say, "I guarantee that this product will work," but nobody would say, "I warranty that this product will work." (You could argue that guarantee is redundant with warrant, but the police don't go to the judge to request a search guarantee. Both words are needed.) I can't think of a single use case for whinge that wouldn't be equally satisfied by whine. Can you?
- seanhunter 3y agoI can't think of a single use case for nought that wouldn't be equally satisfied by "zero". Or courgette that wouldn't be satisfied by zuchini, or both of those by "baby marrow". Or why use "oregano" when you could use "wild marjoram"? A perfectly good English name that has been largely displaced by an Italian word. English (as all modern languages) has tons and tons of exact synonyms and other types of redundant words. It's just a normal part of usage. In this specific case I personally prefer whinge for emphasizing the complaint and whine for emphasising the noise, so I don't really think they are redundant - I think they are slightly different.
- stavros 3y agoI think your definition of "simple" doesn't agree with the average person's. I guarantee you that 98% of people don't know the word "adiabatic".
- avalys 3y agoI’m still pissed about advection!
- arijun 3y agoWhat does “isn’t afraid of the letter S” mean?
- spyspy 3y agospelling bee puzzles never contain S. Originally they didn't include puzzles with e+d or i+n+g either.
- bobthepanda 3y agoIt is also very culturally biased; some loanwords are more present than others
- dhc02 3y agoThe omissions that kill me are common nautical terms.