Missing Words

[Tex2002ans]

Checked against the latest:

• en-GB V 3.2.0 - 2023-05-01

Missing Words

copulae

• M-W Medical
• Collins
• Dictionary.com

("copula" + "copulas" exists, but missing this rarer plural form too.)

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hegemonism

• Collins
• Lexico
• Cambridge
• American-Heritage
• Dictionary.com

hegemonistic

• M-W
• Collins
• Dictionary.com

(Lots of "hegemony" words exist, but missing some of these other related forms.)

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copyeditor copyeditors

• M-W
• Collins
• American-Heritage
• Dictionary.com

(4 copy-edit words exist, but not editor.)

Side Note: And is there a specific reason why the hyphenated copy-edit is used instead of non-hyphenated form? I know older style used a hyphen (or space), but nowadays, the unhyphenated seems to be way more popular since ~1980:

• Google N-grams: "copyedit" vs. "copy-edit"

  • (You can see same pattern for any of the copy-edit words.)
  • (And while some variants of the spaced copy edit are more popular, its usage is dropping since ~2000.)
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systemize systemized systemizer systemizes systemizing systemization

• M-W
• Lexico
• Collins
• American-Heritage
• Dictionary.com

Note: Also -iz->-is spelling.

Note 2: All forms didn't exist in all dictionaries:

• Collins + A-H had systemizer + systemizes. The others didn't.

• Lexico only listed systemize + systemise.

• Dictionary.com only listed systemize + systemized + systemizing.

• M-W didn't recognize systemizer, but accepted systemizes.

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Unsure

• copyability

Seems like a term mostly used in computers/programming.

(I was surprised about this one, since I've probably used it many times before! :P)

Very rare:

• Google N-grams: "copyability"

but it can be found in technical journals/books:

• Google Books: "copyability"

Even showed up back in the 1950s/1970s!

Note: Skimming through Google Books, it even looks like a lot of Library/Philosophy books used the word too! Plus, articles discussing things like CDs/cassettes/Xerox machines.

(I've definitely seen much rarer words existing in the online dictionaries! :P Surprised this one didn't exist in any I checked! Seems like it should exist right alongside "copyable".)

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• architecting
• rearchitecting

Couldn't find this one in (trustworthy) dictionaries yet... but this thing has ~6 million hits in Google now, which is way beyond many other included words.

On "Is this a valid word?", see comments in:

• OUP Blog: "Architecting a Verb?" (2008)

And according to:

• Google N-grams: "architecting"

its popularity has been rising since ~1987.

Recently, it seems like its popularity is really exploding in IT-related fields + "THE CLOUD", like:

• AWS architecting
• architecting networks / systems / applications

so it's probably the case of major dictionaries not catching up to new usage yet.

[marcoagpinto]

Heya,

I have just added them: 87826) copulae + copulae's 87827) hegemonism + hegemonisms + hegemonism's 87828) hegemonistic 87829) copyeditor + copyeditors + copyeditor's + copyeditorial 87830) systemize +s +ing +ed +ion +ions +ion's +er +ers +er's 87831) systemise +s +ing +ed +ion +ions +ion's +er +ers +er's 87832) copyability + copyability's 87833) architecting + architected 87834) rearchitect + rearchitects +rearchitecting + rearchitected

Thanks!