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Originally Posted by KevinH
FWIW, we can also remove words from the dictionary or keep them in the dictionary but mark them as "no suggest" if they are now considered offensive.
Everything I have looked at says Scotchman and Scotchwoman (and their variations) are at their worst offensive and at their best obsolete.
Unfortunately, they are part of the current scowl wordlists. In fact I think the google dictionaries are probably scowl based. Perhaps someone should open a bug report on the scowl github site and suggest the removal of that word, or raising it to level 80 (lower frequency) so it is no longer part of most spelling dictionaries.
Given the word is obsolete at best, perhaps we should remove it or at least set it as no suggest in our dictionaries before their release?
All thoughts welcome.
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And well as a wrapper for a shroud**, a Scotchman is also a Pacific Ocean game fish.
Can the end-user set/unset a word to 'no suggest', if so how?
Then those who write about cricket for public broadcasters etc could mark 'batsman/men' as 'no suggest' and use 'batter' instead.
And thanks a lot for the OED spelling dictionary.
** a shroud is part of the standing rigging that holds a mast aloft.
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