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Per which we see it cited as You can look it up.
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This is all very interesting but in the meantime....
Yegg. Done!
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yegg was a wwftd pre-2002, and also gets a OneLook score of 17 - I'm not sayin', I'm just sayin'. Did you check out my word..wagiman, then....what score did it get?
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He was a baseball player, right? I just looked him up.....and my initials are KC or the other way round....so I could've used CASEY as a 'handle' (I'll keep that in mind for another time......guess its too late to change names here now! )
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This is all very interesting but in the meantime....
Yegg. Done! yegg done then, Bran! Me too 
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Did you check out my word..wagiman, then....what score did it get?
< ahem > Y CLIU
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okay, okay - I LIU (because this sort of thing interests me) and wagiman has a OI of one(1!); it's actually only to be found in wikipedia, which explains that it's "a near-extinct indigenous Australian language spoken by fewer than 10 people."
not the sort of thing that you'd find in an actual dictionary..
(yes, I checked OED and W3. nope.)
p.s. - it's nearly impossible to find a good obscure word with an OI of nil these days. blame the aforementioned amateur lexicologists (and me ; )
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blame the aforementioned amateur lexicologists (and me ; ) tsuwm are you referring to yourself as an amateur lexicologist or are you distancing yourself from them as you are a 'professional, expert lexicologist'? ps where do you find your words if not in a dictionary of some sort?
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>where do you find your words if not in a dictionary of some sort?
browsing the dictionary(s) now comes last amongst my various sources, which include my own reading/suggestions from subscribers/word books/online word lists/Wordnik (just kidding)
if you mean how do I look them up, I use one of the dictionaries I have access to, online or brick & mortar. d'oh.
come to think of it, my b&m dictionaries are getting quite dusty, as most everything I use is available online, including OED (through online library access) and W3 (available by subscription).
edit: I'm as amateur as they come, albeit my list is indexed by OneLook. (and there are still a few words for which wwftd is the only hit. some years ago the webmaster at OL sent me word lists compiled from their misses, and I used that as a source for words!)
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