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az0 commented 6 years ago

Please consider these new words. Many of them are related to psychology.

abductive aggress al amygdala anonymizes assortative audiobook audiobooks autotelic avoidant binaural boxelder ceteris cingulate comorbidity construal correlational cortisol counterintuitively covalent deindividuation demotivational deniability descrambled descrambling destigmatize dishabituation dispositional dissociative distractibility dystopian effortful et extraversion fMRI flyer flyers gastroenterologists haptic heteroscedasticity heteroskedasticity hippocampus hominem http hydrophilicity ichthyophobia impulsivity incapacitation incentivize influencers injunctive insula landmines lognormal misattribute neurodevelopmental neuroplasticity neuroscience neuroticism noetic nonmaleficence online ossicles overparameterization paribus patchouli personifiable petitionary pharmacotherapy pre-kindergarten pre-kindergarteners preadolescent precalculus prefrontal prosocial psychopharmacology psychophysiology reactance reimagine relatable repurposed sanitizer singlism snarky somatoform somatosensory stressors supershrinks sustainably symbology synchrony transducing transduction universalist unproctored

biljir commented 6 years ago

This list contains a lot of words where I am just not sure what the frequency of use is. I will "Endorse" some words that I feel are common enough to clearly deserve inclusion, and l also have a few which I don't recommend including. For the rest, Google Books may be a good guide.

"Endorsed words"

audiobook(s) binaural covalent deniability dystopian sanitizer(s) snarky (-ier, -iest)

Words with comments:

et, al - I presume these are suggested due to the abbreviated Latin form "et al." I'm not in favor of adding these. Adding "al" in lower case interferes with recognizing the error of writing the name "Al" in lower case.

boxelder - All the dictionaries I trust that I consulted think "box elder" is two words.

extraversion - All the dictionaries I consulted believe that extroversion is the preferred form.

flyer(s) - This is an interesting case. Usually, flyer is a less preferred variant of "flier", but, apparently, the preferred spelling for an advertising flyer is "flyer". Which would suggest that both spellings should be included.

hominem - presumably suggested as a part of ad hominem. I disagree on general principals, but I have no idea what the general policy is.

http - Please, no. At least, not in lower case.

online - I think this has been discussed before, and rejected as an alternate form to "on-line". I think the single word form is becoming more and more prevalent - I would be inclined to include it.

ceteris, paribus - see hominem

az0 commented 6 years ago

@biljir Thanks for reviewing the list

Wikipedia has both "box elder" and "boxelder," where the latter is apparently an adjective in "boxelder maple."

Wikipedia has "extraversion," and it mentions both. Is this like "grey" vs. "gray"? A Google search on apa.org gives 22.6K results (because "extroversion" is a term from psychology), while Google Scholar has 241K results. Searching for "extroversion" on apa.org gives the suggestion "did you mean extraversion?", and there are fewer results.

In narrative form, HTTP should be capitalized, but adding "http" avoids marking URLs as incorrect.

biljir commented 6 years ago

It probably isn't quite the same as as "grey" vs "gray". For the gr?y's, Americans prefer gray, but Britons prefer grey. (This is a group preference only, as some individuals may prefer a different spelling then their nation as a whole.) It's possible that extro- versus extra- version behaves the same way, but I haven't ever seen a mention of such a difference. The spelling "extraversion" just looks strange to me - but then I don't do much reading in psychology.

On Sat, Mar 24, 2018, at 4:52 PM, Andrew Ziem wrote:

@biljir[1] Thanks for reviewing the list

Wikipedia has both "box elder" and "boxelder[2]," where the latter is apparently an adjective in "boxelder maple."> Wikipedia has "extraversion[3]," and it mentions both. Is this like "grey" vs. "gray"? A Google search on apa.org gives 22.6K results[4] (because "extroversion" is a term from psychology), while Google Scholar has 241K results[5]. Searching for "extroversion" on apa.org[6] gives the suggestion "did you mean extraversion?", and there are fewer results.> In narrative form, HTTP should be capitalized, but adding "http" avoids marking URLs as incorrect.> — You are receiving this because you were mentioned. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub[7], or mute the thread[8].>

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kevina commented 6 years ago

http - Please, no. At least, not in lower case.

I agree and made a point not to include it before. The proper way to handle spell checking URL's is to skip over it.

kevina commented 6 years ago

@biljir "online" is already included

I have "flyer" marked as a level 2 variant, and at least m-w agrees: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/flier

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