YAY I sure do!!

YAY I think so! PF

Yes too hard!!!

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yes ...please 4 & 5....Dumpling

Just a thought (nuts as it may seem)....how about 7 & 8-letter words stay, but you can change 2 of the letters? Might see some pretty huge scores!

BL

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How about making the 7 and 8 letter words optional on those days, but you can go back to 5 and 4 if you don't have a 7 or 8 entry? A chance for extra points, but not cancelling everything out if you can't do it?

7 and 8 letters will make the game challanging, which means more fun. If it's too easy, it's not fun. Let's leave it stand this week and see how it goes. It if don't work out you can go back to the 5/4 next week.

Baglady's idea is fine but Mamaja's idea would be a nightmare to score...What if someone done a 4 letter...than What ? You can't just add 4 letters of your own choice !!

So far it is 5 YAYS for smaller entries
2 votes that I'm not sure of...(Baglady and Mamaja)
1 vote for 7/8 words

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[This message has been edited by Sypher (edited 02-12-2001).]

I vote for smaller words--7 and 8 letters is too hard when you can only change one letter.

Sorry, Sypher, I think I suffered more flatulence of the brain - I know my idea would never work. I was thinking of how easy it might be if you had the right lead in, but I never thought about what to do when it came to adding the new letters.
I can go with whatever you all decide. I'll lose just the same!!!

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Silly question, but since we're getting into longer words ... both the British & the American spellings for words like color/colour, rationalize/rationalise, defense/defence, etc., are valid, right?

Well, considering some words have already been used that are spelt the American way and not the British way...I will let it slide. Is their any specific Aussie way ? lol

Sorry Sypher, have to challange your entry of YENTZ for today. I couldn't find it on any web dictionary. And, they do list "Yiddish" slang. BTW, isn't Yiddish a foreign language?

The first thing it saids is US Slang...Yiddish was in brackets.
It can still be used in a common sentance, so it is not outdated like some of the entries of past.

As for dictionaries.....we have several sources to pick from now. It is listed in the OED...it is not obselete or french like some of my old entries. If I thought I was going to lose a challenge I would have never posted it...(there was an simplier word to use)

This is what the OED has under Yentz...

Yentz(jEnts), v. U.S. Slang. [Yiddish, f. yentzen to copulate]

trans. To Cheat, to swindle (see also quot. 1939). Also fig. Cf. screw v. 6d, 13.
1930 Amer.Mercury Dec. 458/2 Yentz, to cheat. 'They try to yentz me out of me end.' 1939Amer. Speech XIV. 240/2 To yentz, to cheat; to fornicate. 1969 S. J. Perelman in Holiday Mar. 104/4 The faintness one characteristically experiences on discovering that he has been yentzed. 1978 J. Krantz Scruples x. 276 'I don't yentz them,' Maggie explained, Coca-Cola-colored eyes all innocence, 'they just yentz themselves and I try not to run out of tape.'

That is everything the OED says...I too looked up that Yiddish site and found Yentzen, but it is a verb and Yentz does exist.

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Lord, the education I'm getting on this stuff. I thought I knew every slang for "Yentz" - even studied Russian just so I would understand someone's profanity. But you learn something new every day!!!!!
I'm blushing!!!

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But, I thought it was decided that if the word wasn't in the on-line dictionay sites, it would be invalid because not everybody has the OED. You asked for the web sites to impliment this rule. How are we going to check if we can't find it on the web? The word "yentz" wasn't in google search except as somebody's last name.

If what I say is true, then "WESTY' wouldn't be a valid word either.

I agree with you on that a search for Yentz only brought up people's last name...
As for on-line dictionaries....they are the main source, and I did say they had to make sense and be able to be used in a common sentance.
Yentz still gets used to this day...

As for 'Westy'...it can be found on-line in the http://www.onelook.com/ site. Again, this word is also slang.

As to the challenge, it wont count as a loss or gain of points !!

Nope....read the full text from the OED....it does mention....

[Yiddish, f. yentzen to copulate]

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Ok, these are my thoughts. I don't think the OED should used at all, since all of us can't use it, and it seems to me, whoever uses it definitely has the advantage.

I agree with Sage to use an online source that is available to everyone.

Also, those of us who have WebTV can't data base woids and I ain't going back to the first game and hand write out all the woids, just to make sure I don't have a repeat..LOL

It's hard enough just finding a woid.. Soooo, I'll probably be on your repeat list more than once...LOL

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[This message has been edited by Pinhead (edited 02-13-2001).]

I already went through and wrote down all the words...it only took me about 15 minutes...after that its just daily upkeep..I do like the new rule on use of words already used...if you want triple points then take the time to do it...

There is always the search facility.......very quick to check if the word has been used before.

don't know if I want to make it a challenge or not perhaps its too late...I looked for 45 minutes to find a source online with rolex in it (to use for myself....not for the challenge)...I couldn't find it anywhere...I know what it is...we all do...but does it count since its a proper word...its not in dictionary.com, merriam-webster ,or my lowly ole oxford dictionary of modern english...I guess its not a challenge since I don't want to lose my points but can we have clarification on brand names....

does it matter that Pinhead followed the wrong posting I wasn't sure if that was a challengable thing....