{"id":157,"date":"2013-07-09T20:34:56","date_gmt":"2013-07-09T20:34:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wordhelper.org\/news\/?p=157"},"modified":"2013-07-15T08:08:25","modified_gmt":"2013-07-15T08:08:25","slug":"new-words-with-friends-dictionary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wordhelper.org\/news\/2013\/07\/09\/new-words-with-friends-dictionary\/","title":{"rendered":"New Words With Friends dictionary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m grateful to Lisa (one of the users of my<strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wordhelper.org\/go\/wordfinder\">Word Finder iPhone app<\/a><\/strong>) for pointing out that Words With Friends have recently updated their dictionary.<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;ve just tweaked the word list for <strong>Word Helper<\/strong> to accommodate the changes.<\/p>\n<p>They seem to have added 50 new words &#8211; many of them from the official Scrabble dictionary (such as <em>AIRSHOW<\/em> and <em>WETSUIT<\/em>), and some presumably because they&#8217;re in common use by the users of the app (e.g. <em>SHIZZLE<\/em> and <em>SEXTING<\/em>!)<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;ve also removed 11 words.\u00a0 In common with their previous removals, these seem to all be words that can be used as racially derogative terms.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m working on an update to the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wordhelper.org\/go\/wordfinder\">Word Finder iPhone app<\/a><\/strong> at the moment, and the new dictionary will be in the next release \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m grateful to Lisa (one of the users of my Word Finder iPhone app) for pointing out that Words With Friends have recently updated their dictionary. So I&#8217;ve just tweaked the word list for Word Helper to accommodate the changes. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wordhelper.org\/news\/2013\/07\/09\/new-words-with-friends-dictionary\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordhelper.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordhelper.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordhelper.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordhelper.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordhelper.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordhelper.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":162,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordhelper.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions\/162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordhelper.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordhelper.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordhelper.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}