Following a recommendation here on GN, I started playing Classic Words a few years ago. I use the setting "Extremely Hard" and always play against the "Droid". Lately Mr Droid has started using loads of new, very obscure words.
Examples from my present board include
Moust
Steddy
Jabiru
Over time I have noticed several changes in the dictionary - usually PC-driven. For example, it used to accept "goy", which is a Yiddish name for non-Jews, not particularly derogatory, as far as I know. The droid itself used Squaw once, but when I made that word at a later date, it was not accepted.
And, most infuriatingly, it never accepts quora, which I am sure is a perfectly cromulent plural of quorum.
It does help that it accepts both American and British spellings, which I sometimes take advantage of.
Fortunately even though it has all these new words up its sleeve and it blocks some of mine, I still manage to beat it 3 or 4 times out of 5.
Has anyone else noticed these developments?
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