new words added to firefox

harissa - a spicy North African chili paste wordie - Word lover demonym - names a person who comes from a specific place, like Hoosier or Parisian tzatziki - a Greek yogurt sauce made with cucumbers and garlic kabocha - a kind of Japanese pumpkin kombucha - a fermented and effervescent tea drink. blockchain - a way of keeping track of transactions microfinance microcredit glamping - combination of glamorous and camping neoadjuvant - treatment for a disease or condition that is administered before the primary treatment in order to improve the likelihood of a successful outcome. antifa was borrowed from the German abbreviated combination of "anti-fascist." embiggen subtweet respellings welp

kevina commented 6 years ago

@biljir any comments?

biljir commented 6 years ago

I have my usual objections to situ and hoc.

I think (but am nowhere near sure) that "antifa" should be "Antifa", but agree that the word itself, in some form, should be included.

"embiggen", of course, was a joke word; has its usage now left that domain? Just asking. If it is to be considered legitimate, all the verb forms should be included.

I'm dubious about welp, which could easily be a misspelling for whelp. I don't doubt its existence (though I hadn't run into it yet), but it hasn't been recognized by mainstream dictionaries yet.

I am pleased by the addition of tzatziki. :)

I have no strong feelings about the others, except that I have always hated woah. But as Oxford endorses it, I won't argue against it.

kevina commented 6 years ago

@nanake I am against adding short words sock as "hoc" that are not proper words in there own right because they can easily hid misspellings of similar words and will tend to clutter the suggestion list. The proper way to add it is as "ad hoc" but that as of now is outside of the scope of SCOWL.

kevina commented 6 years ago

@nanake actually I partly take back what I said, "hoc" is already in there so I added "situ". I generally avoid words like that but make exceptions for very common ones and "hoc" and "situ" counts.

"oy" on the other hand I will pas on adding.

kevina commented 6 years ago

Okay I added some but not all of the words. If you disagree strongly that some of the excluded words should be included than please open a separate issue.

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