I still check out the WOD, and share it on social media. Hi, thanks for your review. We're glad that you like the app! If you would like to start receiving our Word of the Day emails again, feel free to email wodsupport m-w. They would be happy to help reactivate your subscription. Instead it trooping to my basement and flipping for ages through gigantic, long, make your eyes bleed pages, I turn to my phone charging behind me and switch on this app.
This also very easy to navigate, and everything is clear and concise-so if your not sure you want to use some electronic confusing dictionary, never mind that. Making an account is easy too! Thanks, Merriam Webster! No complaints here on my part.
I read books that often have unusual, or at least not in the common vernacular, words in them. I used to write them down and at the end of the day look them up in my physical dictionary or Encyclopedia set. Funniest or most outrageous wins. Try it! It awesome! Also, like me, if you are writing a story and need someone with the ranking of town mayor but in a tribal setting, the Thesaurus can actually give you the word you are looking for.
The developer, Merriam-Webster, Inc. The following data may be used to track you across apps and websites owned by other companies:. The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:. Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Arkadium said it regularly audits and culls the words that could appear in its games and has taken steps to remove additional terms.
Players who click on the found words are directed to the Merriam-Webster definitions. Gage said he added both slurs to the list of words to block from the game shortly after Yambo contacted him.
Barlow responded within hours, followed by two phone calls. Even after Buckner Walker spoke to Barlow, disparaging terms showed up on the website version of the game that the company does control.
Company officials said Merriam-Webster plans to seek outside input on expanding its list of blocked words because it is unaccustomed to casting editorial judgment beyond what its dictionary has flagged for offensive usage. Human vetting of computer-generated online word puzzles is standard for big gaming companies, said Gillian Smith, a computer science professor and director of the interactive media and game development program at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts.
The company employs a team responsible for ensuring that words allowed in the game are inclusive, Ross said, but some players have objected to what they view as the arbitrary nature of determining which words are inappropriate. In the Scrabble world, players expressed confusion and outrage over the list of words characterized as slurs to be banned from competitive play. John Chew, chief executive of the Scrabble association, which is the governing body for competitive Scrabble in the United States and Canada, and chairman of its dictionary committee, said he expects the organization to revisit the list.
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