Just a quick little post here, you might find it educational. These are all words I have encountered, and attempted to use in scrabble, bananagrams, etc. Only to find they have been missed by the word compilation that doesn't miss words. Boy, it makes me grrrrr.
- Popple: In the first Skulduggery Pleasant book (Which my blogging friend Michael Crowder wrote about in his blog), Valkyrie Cain, or Stephanie Edgely at the time claimed she was looking through the dictionary while she was actually reading one of Gordon Edgely's books. She tells her mum, and therefore me, that "popple" is a word, losing me valuable scrabble points. Not that "popple" would have a good score anyway, but hey, I was on a triple word.
-Stug: In the Andkon arcade games Battle Gear/Battle Gear 2, a "stug" is basically a crappy tank. What I didn't realise was that after losing my game for me by failing against foot soldiers it blatantly should have annihilated, it would also fail me in a game of Scrabble Apple with my uncle and sister.
-Taw: Unless you're a girl, the dangerous book for boys is a book you either read a long time ago and still pick up occasionally, or a book you will never read and will have missed out on, ya fail. In the "How to play marbles" section, it says the "taw" is a well, marble, that you, ermm, play marbles with. It's basically your favourite marble. Like, maybe rainbow coloured or something. Anyway, doesn't exist either if the Scrabble Dictionary's to be trusted.
Yeah, that's probably it for tonight, I'm going somewhere, possibly even bordering on the realms of having a life for a brief period. Just for the record, that wasn't a vent, more of a gentle letting off of steam, like a kettle. I don't really get annoyed over dictionary definitions. That would be so sad.
One other thing. I was reading the SAS Survival Guide, a thoroughly good book, when a randomer came up to me and asked if I was expecting to be in a survival situation any time soon. I thought he'd rather missed the point.
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