On the facebook forum for the 'new' Scrabble game, someone has requested that the developers add the word "ostridge" to their dictionary
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Okay. You just came up with my Life's Work (revised): Put together a new dictionary based upon regional dialect, idiom, and definition. Spellings will be -naturally- phonetical as regards the region in question. "Ostridge," I believe, is coming from the far northwestern US.
This could actually take up one's entire life. And it would require travel. What a magnificent proposition!
I can't say the word "magnificent" without thinking of Toulouse, as portrayed by what's-his-name in Moulin Rouge, which would render the word spelled "mag-NI-fe-sthent" in my compilation.
I am sure you will need to limit it to a geographical region to fit it into a single lifetime. I just got off the phone with two Englishmen and one Scot, this morning I was talking with a Filipino, and today I am hanging out with a bunch of New Yawkers.. I cannot imagine the spelling and the phonetic conglomeration for just that mix.
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This could actually take up one's entire life. And it would require travel. What a magnificent proposition!
I can't say the word "magnificent" without thinking of Toulouse, as portrayed by what's-his-name in Moulin Rouge, which would render the word spelled "mag-NI-fe-sthent" in my compilation.
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In the meantime, try this: http://wordsmith.org/ :-)
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