Promote some biotech words

[susnux]

• cytometry (currently larger (size 80) SCOWL size)
• electrochemical (currently en_US-large)
• vivo (currently larger (size 80) SCOWL size)

Should be probably promoted to en_US, they are quite common in scientific writing, first two have 4 star Google Books rating and vivo (e.g. in-vivo) even has a rating of 5 stars (frequency of 11.1895 per million).

Having cytometer (currently larger (size 80) SCOWL size) in en_US would be nice too.

[kevina]

@biljir what do you think?

Note that the google books rating needs to be taken with a large grain of salt, I suspect it is heavy skewed towards scientific (and medical) literature.

[biljir]

"electrochemical" seems very reasonable to me.

I have a bias against "words" like "vivo", which are bits of foreign languages used only in specific phrases. I'd say you should do with it whatever you do with other similar such "words" such as "facto" or "nauseam" (though I'm sure it's used less than either of those).

I am completely unfamiliar with cytometry, but that could easily be because I don't read the sort of scientific writing in which it is prevalent. I note that neither it nor cytometer is in my paper Merriam-Webster's, and that the only mainstream dictionary it is in (according to onelook.com) is the British Collins Dictionary. A question I would ask is whether there is some reason that usage of these words would recently have increased. If not, perhaps keeping them at level 80 is appropriate.

[kevina]

Thanks Alan, I think I will add "electrochemical".

I have a bias against "words" like "vivo"

I only include parts of really common phrases to make up for the fact that many spell checkers check one word at a time and have no concept of open compound words. I have then in separate lists so that can be removed at some point in the future. That being said I am not sure "vivo" is common enough compared to facto and nauseam, to include. Of those three words I only have "facto" in dictionary as of now.

I only want to include scientific words that the are likely to come up outside of the field, and cytometry doesn't seam to fit that criteria.