Larry Hosken: New: Tag: word

I have updated the Phraser words- and phrases-lists. As you recall, these are text files with words and phrases commonly-found in Wikipedia, books, and other places; ranked by amazing-ness.* They can be useful when you're solving a puzzle, have figured out I'm looking for celebrities with surnames that are also colors; it's a little too complex a task for nutrimatic; I should write a little computer script. Every couple of whiles, I grab recent versions of Wikipedia so I can get the freshest phrases. E.g., this new version knows that skibidi toilet is a thing; the old January list didn't even realize that skibidi is a word. Anyhow, download the new "500,000 words" or "5,000,000 phrases" files the next time you're prepping for a puzzlehunt.

*Amazing-ness is an inaccurate but arguably-useful measure of suitability in word puzzles

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Why did I say "sort-of parable" when I could have said "parabloid"? Did I really wake up just to type that? OK back to bed ...

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Brave It took all my courage to look up the etymology for "cockchafer" but it wasn't so bad. (The entomology's kind of gross, though.) ...

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If you want to make conspirators feel sheepish, don't say they're in a "conspiracy." Say they're in a "complot." Oh man, complot. Scheming and machinating never sounded so dull. ...

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