Welcome to the Guess My Word blog. This is a place to discuss the words of the day chosen by Joon and Mike. This paragraph is here mostly as spoiler space. Here are today's words:
The 31 words surrounding joon's word range from noncollegiate to noncompliance. Elaine, there are 1475 "non" words. 233 "nonc" words. 141 "nonco" words. 34 "noncom" words. 10 "noncomm" words. I was hoping for a non-non-prefix word, such as "nonce."
The 31 words surrounding Mike's word range from COOEED (sic!) to COOKLESS. 34 words start with the same 4 letters. But only the word itself and its plural start with the same 5.
noncommittal is a non-non-prefix word, in the sense that it isn't the opposite of committal (or even the same part of speech as committal, which is in my dictionary only as a noun, i.e. the act of committing). i find such words interesting and will continue to select them occasionally. (nondescript and nonchalant are also interesting to me in the same way.) you may feel free to continue to dislike them.
I just meant that "non" is a prefix meaning the usual thing, even if it doesn't produce the precise lexical opposite of the letter string to which it is attached. It's more of a non- prefix than nonager, nonagenarian, and nona, for instance.
But you may feel free to like those words, and you have (just) given us a sense of which of the 1475 words you would tend to like, and the game is more interesting if it isn't limited to the kinds of words I tend to like.
I kept trying noncommissioned over and over -- I see that it's underlined in red here, too. Seems like a legit word everywhere else. I just couldn't get past it to the real word.
that is odd. noncommissioned is certainly a word in my book (my book being the new oxford american dictionary). i see that m-w only has noncommissioned officer, without noncommissioned having its own separate entry. anyway, i'll add it to the word list, because why not?
nona
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nondescript
nonchalant
nondairy
noncom
There are just too many non-words.
Coo coo ka choo.
Once more, my spelling weakness has defeated me. I think I tried NONCOMMITTAL both with two Ms and with two Ts, but never both at the same time!
ReplyDeleteThe 31 words surrounding joon's word range from noncollegiate to noncompliance. Elaine, there are 1475 "non" words. 233 "nonc" words. 141 "nonco" words. 34 "noncom" words. 10 "noncomm" words. I was hoping for a non-non-prefix word, such as "nonce."
ReplyDeleteThe 31 words surrounding Mike's word range from COOEED (sic!) to COOKLESS. 34 words start with the same 4 letters. But only the word itself and its plural start with the same 5.
noncommittal is a non-non-prefix word, in the sense that it isn't the opposite of committal (or even the same part of speech as committal, which is in my dictionary only as a noun, i.e. the act of committing). i find such words interesting and will continue to select them occasionally. (nondescript and nonchalant are also interesting to me in the same way.) you may feel free to continue to dislike them.
DeleteI just meant that "non" is a prefix meaning the usual thing, even if it doesn't produce the precise lexical opposite of the letter string to which it is attached. It's more of a non- prefix than nonager, nonagenarian, and nona, for instance.
DeleteBut you may feel free to like those words, and you have (just) given us a sense of which of the 1475 words you would tend to like, and the game is more interesting if it isn't limited to the kinds of words I tend to like.
I kept trying noncommissioned over and over -- I see that it's underlined in red here, too. Seems like a legit word everywhere else. I just couldn't get past it to the real word.
ReplyDeletethat is odd. noncommissioned is certainly a word in my book (my book being the new oxford american dictionary). i see that m-w only has noncommissioned officer, without noncommissioned having its own separate entry. anyway, i'll add it to the word list, because why not?
DeleteHow many other divergences from TWL are there (roughly)? Any deletions?
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