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.
Jen, you should start! The list price for these books is in the region of $100 per volume. There are currently Vols I-IV and "Volume V, containing the remainder of the alphabet, is presently scheduled for publication in 2009. This will be followed by a volume containing the bibliography, maps, responses to the questions in our questionnaire, etc."
Crap, count me in on that project. How is it that I was born and raised in Houston, Texas, living only a few miles, or even a few hundred yards from HICKADELPHIA, and grew up sounding as if I were from the Mid-West? Huh? How? I lived so close to some of the the worst twang you've ever heard, and even that was tinged with "Skoal between the cheek and gum" dialect... that being a bit of a twangy lisp as one tried to speak without spitting bits of pulverised tobacco on you. O_o
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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Jen, you should start! The list price for these books is in the region of $100 per volume. There are currently Vols I-IV and "Volume V, containing the remainder of the alphabet, is presently scheduled for publication in 2009. This will be followed by a volume containing the bibliography, maps, responses to the questions in our questionnaire, etc."
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Crap, count me in on that project. How is it that I was born and raised in Houston, Texas, living only a few miles, or even a few hundred yards from HICKADELPHIA, and grew up sounding as if I were from the Mid-West? Huh? How? I lived so close to some of the the worst twang you've ever heard, and even that was tinged with "Skoal between the cheek and gum" dialect... that being a bit of a twangy lisp as one tried to speak without spitting bits of pulverised tobacco on you. O_o
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