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"unhewn" is a word #365

Open matkoniecz opened 1 year ago

matkoniecz commented 1 year ago

I tried to make PR but there is no clear documentation what should be modified and looking at latest commits make me confused: should I add it to the same file as https://github.com/en-wl/wordlist/commit/fdf8567a968ef1d92f93a95b499a875d9ce4349b#diff-52fee965edcadc63efc47eb09aabaa73f496927d67bb6658084cd5d7cfc3917c was editing? Some other? How to find proper one?

(also, last commit is in 2021)

kevina commented 1 year ago

@matkoniecz a PR is unnecessary for word additions and just creates extra work for me.

DimitriPapadopoulos commented 1 year ago

Frequency of unhewn is declining: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=unhewn%3Aeng_us_2019%2Cunhewn%3Aeng_gb_2019&year_start=1800&year_end=2019&corpus=en-2019

However, it still has 3 stars under "Should Include": http://app.aspell.net/lookup?dict=en_US;words=unhewn

matkoniecz commented 1 year ago

Frequency of unhewn is declining:

Why it would matter? As long as it is a valid word it should be in dictionary

DimitriPapadopoulos commented 1 year ago

My understanding is that these are thought as dictionaries of current English, but I may be wrong. Also, they do not contain all words, only those frequent enough. Hence the rating with stars.

That said, "unhewn" does have 3 stars, so it could be published.