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Typos/duplicates in 2024 #1132

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cmbant opened this issue Nov 5, 2024 · 2 comments
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Typos/duplicates in 2024 #1132

cmbant opened this issue Nov 5, 2024 · 2 comments
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@cmbant
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cmbant commented Nov 5, 2024

Thanks for the 2024 update! Some new typos (since 2021):

delierywoman
Candian English orthography
visting firefighter
waster stabilization lagoon

vlog, water-skiing - dups
craftswoman (or gloss too similar)
lightstick/glowstick

townswoman - 2 v similar

(some of the new entries also have very unnecessarily long usage examples; e.g. bludger - which is also a very odd choice of addition, esp. given more traditional Oz sense of the word)

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jmccrae commented Nov 5, 2024

Thanks for these. Some notes:

craftswoman follows craftsman. I agree that there are probably too many senses here.

townswoman also follows townsman and probably has too many senses.

'lightstick' may have been introduced for a different meaning (based on a corpus with a lot of k-pop references). However 'lightstick' is certainly a synonym of 'glowstick'

water-skiing was introduced on request (#1005) I am not sure why I didn't search for the existing synset...

New synsets have attested examples with sources. They are often longer and less ideal than the fabricated examples from Princeton WordNet.

Similarly, 'bludger' has the sense it does because that is how it was used where it is attested. We can add another sense for the Australian slang as that is also attested.

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cmbant commented Nov 7, 2024

There are also quite a few typos in the new glosses (many of the new -woman, -person entries have no attestations and very rare)

cleaning man, ferrywoman (wrong sex); also swagwoman, packwoman, wingwoman, fuglewoman, plowwoman, con woman

@jmccrae jmccrae added this to the 2025 Release milestone Nov 29, 2024
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