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This document last revised: Mon Oct 20 10:36:05 EDT 1997
TWL98 Changes
On March 2nd, 1998, the
National
Scrabble® Association will adopt
a new word list for use at its sanctioned clubs and tournaments. This
list will replace the Official Scrabble® Players Dictionary (second
edition, now out of print) as extensively amended, and will for the
first time include base words of nine letters.
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate
Dictionary (tenth edition) will continue to be the reference for
words outside of the scope of the new Tournament Word List, i.e.
uninflected words of ten or more letters and inflected forms of ten or
more letters whose base forms also have at least ten letters. A
number of changes will be made to the word list with the adoption of
TWL98; these are described below.
"Foreign" Words Deled
According to the specifications to which the OSPD was originally compiled,
words which are marked as foreign in the sources in which they appear
are not acceptable. It has recently been discovered that a few such
words were incorrectly included in the OSPD, and they are now being
deled.
Capitalized Word Deled
According to the specifications to which the OSPD was originally compiled,
words which are always capitalised in the sources in which they appear
are not acceptable. It has recently been discovered that one such word
was incorrectly included in the OSPD, and it is now being deled.
Changed Inflections
With the advice of Merriam-Webster lexicographers, the following inflections
will be changed:
- backdrop
- add new past tense BACKDROPT
-
footwear knitwear menswear neckwear playwear rainwear skiwear swimwear townwear
- dele plurals
FOOTWEARS KNITWEARS MENSWEARS NECKWEARS
PLAYWEARS RAINWEARS SKIWEARS SWIMWEARS TOWNWEARS
- hangul
- dele plural HANGULS
- ill
- add comparative ILLER and superlative ILLEST
- lez
- change plural from LEZES to LEZZES
- licente
- is a plural of SENTE, dele its plural LICENTI
- maglev
- is now a noun, add plural MAGLEVS
- pineal
- see below
- premix
- add new past tense PREMIXT
- rhyton
- add new plural RHYTONS
- smooth
- add alternate third person singular SMOOTHES
- spaetzle
- add new plural SPAETZLES
- stride
- dele past tense STRID
- teniasis
- change plural from TENIASISES to TENIASES
- trapezii
- see below
- whinge
- add new present participle WHINGING
New MWCD10 Words Added
A number of words have been added to MWCD10 since the last revision to
the OSPD, and selection criteria have been expanded to allow words that
appear as italicised non-cross-referenced synonyms (e.g. STARFRUIT,
listed at CARAMBOLA). Note that words in the latter category of ten
or more letters will continue to be unacceptable, because of the practical
impossibility of finding them in MWCD10.
These new words appear in TWL98:
- aerobrake aerobraked aerobrakes aerobraking
- antimycin antimycins (italicised)
- backstab backstabbed backstabbing backstabs
- bassett bassetts (italicised)
- bedsit bedsits (italicised)
- chemo chemos
- declaw declawed declawing declaws
- esthetics (new plural of ESTHETIC)
- ferretings (plural of italicised FERRETING)
- finalise finalised finalises finalising
- gallamine gallamines (italicised)
- gladioluses (new plural of GLADIOLUS)
- ignorami (new plural of IGNORAMUS)
- imaginaries (plural of italicised IMAGINARY)
- latte lattes
- lepidotes (new plural of LEPIDOTE)
- louvred
- macadamia macadamias (italicised)
- microbrew microbrews
- oasthouse oasthouses (italicised)
- petrale petrales (italicised)
- pineals (plural of italicised PINEAL)
- platyfish platyfishes (italicised)
- ponderosa ponderosas (italicised)
- pyrolize pyrolized pyrolizes pyrolizing
- redtail redtails (italicised)
- samaritans (new plural of SAMARITAN)
- sevruga sevrugas
- silkies (plural of italicised SILKY)
- sleepover sleepovers
- starfruit starfruits (italicised)
- technicals (plural of italicised TECHNICAL)
- treenware treenwares (italicised)
- tricyclics (plural of italicised TRICYCLIC)
- trochlears (plural of italicised TROCHLEAR)
- unsell unselling unsells
- voguer voguers
- yellowfin yellowfins (italicised)
Orphaned Nine-Letter Base Forms Added
Since the OSPD was compiled from several collegiate dictionaries, it
includes some eight-letter plurals of nine-letter words which are not
in MWCD10. These orphaned singular forms have been added to TWL98,
and ten-letter singular forms of nine-letter plurals will also appear,
to avoid similar problems in future. Where longer singular forms have
longer alternate plurals, these too have been added.
These words appear in TWL98:
- acervulus
- anthelion anthelions
- anthodium
- booklouse
- bronchium
- caldarium
- calyculus
- chalazion chalazions
- credendum
- ctenidium
- cubiculum
- epicedium
- flabellum
- gammadion
- gelsemium gelsemiums
- gynaeceum
- gynaecium
- hospitium
- malleolus
- mazaedium
- phelonion phelonions
- pterygium pterygiums
- retiarius
- sarmentum
- septarium
- sextarius
- sporozoon
- trihedron trihedrons
- trochilus
- sympodium
- unguentum
- vestigium
Clarifications of Implicit Inflections
MWCD10 is occasionally unclear concerning allowable inflections of words.
The word list used online on
DOoM
servers will be emended as follows:
- anopheles
- dele plural ANOPHELESES
- alkalosis chlorosis fluorosis halitosis heterosis
nephrosis proptosis sclerosis silicosis
- dele alternate plurals
ALKALOSISES CHLOROSISES FLUOROSISES HALITOSISES HETEROSISES
NEPHROSISES PROPTOSISES SCLEROSISES SILICOSISES
- antiradar antishock antismoke antisolar antitumor antiwoman
- are adjectives, dele ANTIRADARS ANTISHOCKS ANTISMOKES ANTISOLARS
ANTITUMORS ANTIWOMEN
- arteritis gastritis phlebitis
- dele alternate plurals
ARTERITES ARTERITISES GASTRITES GASTRITISES PHLEBITES PHLEBITISES
- beachwear outerwear sleepwear underwear
- dele plurals BEACHWEARS OUTERWEARS SLEEPWEARS UNDERWEARS
(no compound words in -WEAR will take -S)
- cacoethes
- dele plural CACOETHESES
- cafetorium
- dele plural CAFETORIA
- cocaptain cocounsel coculture cofeature cohostess copartner copresent
- are verbs, add
COCAPTAINED COCAPTAINING
COCOUNSELED COCOUNSELING COCOUNSELLED COCOUNSELLING
COCULTURED COCULTURING
COFEATURED COFEATURING
COHOSTESSED COHOSTESSING
COPARTNERED COPARTNERING
COPRESENTED COPRESENTING COPRESENTS
- cocksfoot
- plural is COCKSFOOTS, not COCKSFEET
- coeternal
- is an adjective, dele COETERNALS
- enteritis
- dele plural ENTERITES
- franglais
- dele plural FRANGLAISES
- glossitis laminitis parotitis sinusitis synovitis vaginitis
- dele alternate plurals
GLOSSITES GLOSSITIDES LAMINITES LAMINITIDES PAROTITES PAROTITIDES
SINUSITES SINUSITIDES SYNOVITES SYNOVITIDES VAGINITES VAGINITIDES
- hybridoma
- dele plural HYBRIDOMATA
- impatiens
- dele plural IMPATIENSES
- interflow interfold interzone
- are adjectives, dele
INTERFLOWED INTERFLOWING INTERFLOWS
INTERFOLDED INTERFOLDING INTERFOLDS
INTERZONES
- literatus
- dele plural LITERATUSES
- lycopodium
- change plural LYCOPODIA to LYCOPODIUMS
- misstrike
- is a verb, add MISSTRICKEN MISSTRIKING MISSTRUCK
- mongoloid
- is a noun, add MONGOLOIDS
- multilane multipath multipole multiwall
- are adjectives, dele MULTILANES MULTIPATHS MULTIPOLES MULTIWALLS
- nightlife
- plural is NIGHTLIFES, not NIGHTLIVES
-
nonanimal nonbuying noncaking noncareer nonchurch noncounty nondesert
nonedible nonenergy nonexempt nonfinite nonfossil nonghetto nongrowth
nonimmune nonimpact noninjury nonkosher nonleague nonliving nonmarket
nonpolice nonrubber nonruling nonsexual nonspeech nontariff
- are adjectives, dele
NONANIMALS NONBUYINGS NONCAKINGS NONCAREERS NONCHURCHES NONCOUNTIES NONDESERTS
NONEDIBLES NONENERGIES NONEXEMPTS NONFINITES NONFOSSILS NONGHETTOS NONGROWTHS
NONIMMUNES NONIMPACTS NONINJURIES NONKOSHERS NONLEAGUES NONLIVINGS NONMARKETS
NONPOLICES NONRUBBERS NONRULINGS NONSEXUALS NONSPEECHES NONTARIFFS
- nonmutant
- is a noun, add NONMUTANTS
- overclean overdry
- are verbs, add
OVERCLEANED OVERCLEANING OVERCLEANS
OVERDRIED OVERDRIES OVERDRYING
- overdrive
- is a verb, add OVERDRIVEN OVERDRIVING OVERDROVE
- overlight
- add alternate past tense OVERLIGHTED
- overweary
- is an adjective, dele
OVERWEARIED OVERWEARIES OVERWEARYING
- photostat
- add alternate inflections PHOTOSTATTED PHOTOSTATTING
- postfault
- is an adjective, dele POSTFAULTS
- pocketful
- add alternate plural POCKETSFUL
- predinner preflight premarket prereturn prereview preseason
prestrike presummit pretravel
- are adjectives, dele
PREDINNERS
PREFLIGHTS
PREMARKETED PREMARKETING PREMARKETS
PRERETURNED PRERETURNING PRERETURNS
PREREVIEWED PREREVIEWING PREREVIEWS
PRESEASONS
PRESTRICKEN PRESTRIKES PRESTRIKING PRESTRUCK
PRESUMMITS
PRETRAVELED PRETRAVELING PRETRAVELLED PRETRAVELLING PRETRAVELS
- preshrink
- add alternate past participle PRESHRUNKEN
- reticulum
- dele plural RETICULUMS
- retinitis
- dele plural RETINITISES
- sauternes
- dele plural SAUTERNESES
- scintilla
- add alternate plural SCINTILLAE
- straphang
- dele alternate past tense STRAPHANGED
- suboptimum
- is an adjective, dele SUBOPTIMA SUBOPTIMUMS
- subvisual
- is an adjective, dele SUBVISUALS
- superfirm supermini
- are nouns, add SUPERFIRMS SUPERMINIS
- superhype
- is a verb, add SUPERHYPED SUPERHYPING
- superrich supersize
- are adjectives, dele SUPERRICHES SUPERSIZES
- testatrix
- dele alternate plural TESTATRIXES
- trapezium
- dele alternate plural TRAPEZIUMS
- trapezius
- add plural TRAPEZII
- ultracold ultraleft ultrarich
- are adjectives, dele ULTRACOLDS ULTRALEFTS ULTRARICHES
- utriculus
- dele alternate plural UTRICULUSES
- slaphappy
- add inflections SLAPHAPPIER SLAPHAPPIEST
- unhealthy
- add inflections UNHEALTHIER UNHEALTHIEST
- unsightly
- add inflections UNSIGHTLIER UNSIGHTLIEST
- womenkind
- dele plural WOMENKINDS
- zamindari
- only plural is ZAMINDARIS, not ZAMINDARIES
- zemindary
- only plural is ZEMINDARIES, not ZEMINDARIS