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Examples
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So, FATTY and FATTIEST are still in OSPD, but remove that last T, and there’s ano-no.
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It can be an adjective (eg., a fatty cut of meat), which means that it’s in OSPD, as well as the inflected forms FATTIER and FATTIEST.
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The result is that there’s now the OSPD, which is what you can find in bookstores, and the Tournament Word List, which still had the “naughty” words.
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The result is that there’s now the OSPD, which is what you can find in bookstores, and the Tournament Word List, which still had the “naughty” words.
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However, FATTY is also a noun for a fat person (FATSO was also removed from the OSPD), and has the plural FATTIES.
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However, FATTY is also a noun for a fat person FATSO was also removed from the OSPD, and has the plural FATTIES.
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For reasons that I cannot fathom, “ai” is in both OSPD and OSW, while “zo” is only in OSW; do the compilers of the OSPD really think that the average USAn is more likely to come across an ai than a zo while walking in the park?
The Volokh Conspiracy » Guestblogging Dictionary Myths: 2007
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I silently thanked Miriam-Webster for adding QI, KI and ZA to the OSPD 4th edition.
MSDN Blogs 2009
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OSPD (as it's called) is a real dictionary, providing parts of speech and definitions, while TCWGD gives neither.
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A few years ago, the final of the National Championship was being recorded for TV, and one of the players tried to play LEZ, a term for a lesbian which was removed from the OSPD but is obviously still in the TWL (as was LESBO); the generic LESBIAN is still in the OSPD).
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