Re: Most obscure vocabulary award.

<jwb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote ...
Paul Blay <ask_me_or_get_spam_trapped@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> dixit: 
I wasn't going to because it's pretty obscure,
although as far as I know it's 'real'..


Go on. Be a devil. Get a buzz out knowing that when some poor soul
wants to look it up at least one JE will have it.


OK you've got it.

But I'm starting to feel some sympathy for muchan's views on 'core vocabulary'. You have the 20,000 "common words," a standard dictionary has around 60,000 and (depending on how you count them) Edict has well over 100,000.

As such a marker for "obscure, technical and / or archaic" might be 'nice to have' but I'm not volunteering to check 114,000+
records to classify them.
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