A list of 24 words by vanishedone.
- abstergent appears on 12 other lists and has 1 comment
- agrestic appears on 19 other lists
- apodeictic appears on 16 other lists and has 3 comments
- caducity appears on 19 other lists and has 3 comments
- caliginosity appears on 9 other lists
- compossible appears on 8 other lists
- embrangle appears on 16 other lists
- exuviate appears on 13 other lists
- fatidical appears on 6 other lists and has 1 comment
- fubsy appears on 16 other lists and has 4 comments
- griseous appears on 16 other lists and has 1 comment
- malison appears on 19 other lists and has 2 comments
- mansuetude appears on 26 other lists and has 3 comments
- muliebrity appears on 38 other lists and has 1 comment
- niddering appears on 11 other lists and has 1 comment
- nitid appears on 19 other lists
- olid appears on 9 other lists
- oppugnant appears on 7 other lists
- periapt appears on 12 other lists
- recrement appears on 13 other lists and has 1 comment
- roborant appears on 24 other lists and has 3 comments
- skirr appears on 12 other lists and has 2 comments
- vaticinate appears on 13 other lists
- vilipend appears on 52 other lists and has 1 comment
asativum Say, aren't dictionaries most useful for looking up words you don't already know? So wouldn't a dictionary containing only commonly used words be less useful than one with lots of unfamiliar words?
Soon-to-be-broke wankers. Oct 8, 2008
bilby Embrangle. Need this. Oct 8, 2008
chained_bear Somehow I missed this.
I'm with yarb.
Wankers. Oct 8, 2008
Telofy Just added them all to dict.cc. They'll stage a superb comeback. Sep 25, 2008
reesetee Appealing to the lowest common denominator, perhaps? Sep 23, 2008
vanishedone Oh, I agree it's a publicity stunt (and yes, I'm helping it along). It's that these aren't ever so obscure that makes it odd, really: you've seen mansuetude and vaticinate, I know apodeictic and compossible from texts that are standard on undergraduate Philosophy courses, and elsewhere people are pointing out that periapt is common in D&D. So what were Collins thinking when they opted for targets that make them look like shoddy researchers whose dictionary would fail to meet undergrads' needs? Sep 22, 2008
yarb This strikes me as a rather pathetic publicity stunt by Collins. I've run into several of these words in recent reading; some (mansuetude, vaticinate) several times.
"Make space"? Very funny.
Wankers. Sep 22, 2008
vanishedone I've seen apodeictic in a recent translation of the Critique of Pure Reason (indeed, the OED definition references Kant), and it's just a variant of apodictic, which is also crucial in Husserl's phenomenology. Someone at Collins doesn't care much about modern philosophy.
Edit: compossible turns up in Leibniz too. This is hardly obscure material. Sep 22, 2008