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wwh:
Suppose one of these words is a proper noun? Does it still qualify?
Reason I'm asking is I just checked one of the words in the first row, which I'm working on, and one of 'em isn't a common noun, but is a proper noun. Does that count? Especially if you typed it with a lower case letter--and it requires an upper case one?
Not that we need rules, but I'm just asking to fine tune this goofy game.
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uliginose(9) is real! it means muddy or swampy (uliginous)
let's see, we've also got lanose(10) and bagasse(11)?
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I did lousy. My identified correct words in the first line were words. But so were five of the seven I'd identified as not being words. I ain't sayin' nothin', but I will paste one of the definitions of one of the words I'd thought was a fake:
A thin, fetid, greenish fluid consisting of serum and pus discharged from a wound, ulcer, or fistula. . Only two words in the first line were fakes according to OneLook.com---but then OneLook.com has been known to leave out words.
Acronyms don't count, do they, Bill?
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tsuwm:
zurf turned out to be a word listed on OneLook. FTR.
infangtheof is one that isn't a word. And there's one other on the first row that ain't one either--at least on OneLook.
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it looks like zurf is an alternate spelling of my zarf, and I think we're going to have to accept infangtheof.
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But why, tsuwm, why do we have to accept infangtheof? It ain't listed in a dictionary so far, so you couldn't even play it on No-Dictionary-Barred Scrabble, right? (Come on, give me a break! I've only got four points in the top line for real words, and two for fake ones, including the misspelled infangtheof! I'm eating crow for supper before I attempt the second line.)
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why?
infangthief comes from OE. infangenþéof, which gives some credence to the theof spelling, but more to the point, I challenge you to say infangtheof so that it seems different to the "real" word.
p.s. - what's the other one? it looks like the whole first line is real..
p.p.s. - this whole thing is going to require some latitude and not a few salt grains. ferinstance, swoopstake is given as an obsolete form of sweepstake.
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A challenge? You wanna challenge?!?
Well, let's redesign what you just wrote:
infangthief comes from OE. infangenþéof, which gives some credence to the theof spelling, but more to the point, I challenge you to say infangtheof so that it seems different to the "real" word.
Altered spelling, and we're gonna say, according to yer reasoning these be all words:
infangthief komes frum OhEe. infangenþéof, whitch givs som creadince twu thea theof speling, buht moarre twu thea poynt, Iye chalenge ywu twu sae infangtheof soa thatt itt seyms diferent twu thea "reale" wurd.
Gud greefe!
WW
P.S. I only found zurf as an acronym on Onelook.
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no, no... you missed my point: I challenge you to say infangtheof different to infangthief. I hope that this wasn't meant as a spelling contest.
how about geat as an old form of gate?
p.s. - OED gives zarf and zurf equal billing.
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Infangtheof:
Ah-hem:
In-FANG-thee-ove
Now is that how you pronounce any of those examples you listed, tsuwm?
P.S. Too bad OneLook doesn't include the Great Mister Ed.
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