[Dixonary] OT sort of: I am curious (dealing)

[Dodi Schultz]

>> I leave them [typos or misspellings] as they are. I don't think the
>> player is being unfairly penalized for having a goof reproduced
>> verbatim. If the goof loses the player votes, I think it's fair.

Guess we disagree on that one, Paul. If my fingers, which dont alwys take
propper direction frrom my head, goofed, I'd be grateful to the dealer who
leveled the playing field for me.

>> Also, on two occasions long ago I came within a hairsbreadth of
>> "fixing" a correct US spelling: I remember one of them was
>> 'worshiped'. Fortunately I had the gumption to check before posting.

I always check. Gumption? I call that smarts. ;-) In fact, I did so on
this round, on two words. One needed a fix; the other was correct.

--Dodi

[Daniel B. Widdis]

Dave said:
>> OTOH, sometimes the real def has a typo in it, and more than once I
>> have gotten the right def that way.
Dodi said:
>> Really, Dave? You mean, in those cases, there was a typo in the def
>> as printed in the actual dictionary?

>> I've found a couple, but IME, they're extremely rare. And I don't
>> recall one in Dixonary.

My recent deal of cooey with the misspelled "aborigines" attracted Dave's
vote.

It wasn't "printed" in the dictionary (to my knowledge) but it appears
common to all online sources that draw from M-W 1913.

--
Dan