Slave not allowed as word on Wordle

they removed these 6 words from the list of possible answers

agora

pupal

lynch

fibre

slave

wench

and these words from the list of allowed words

seen interviews with the guy who created the game, there's like 13,000 possible 5-letter words, he then created a game for his wife that gave her a word with three buttons "I know this word", "I think I've heard this word" and "I don't know this word" from that he whittle the list of 13,000 to 2,500 and then further removed words he didn't want. Anyways it's just a game you either play it or move on with your life :pac:

Well that may have been its origin but seeing as it is played aroudn the world, was bought by one of America's leading media companies the New York Times for a sum in the millions of dollars the omission of a perfectly legitimate and well known word is ridiculous. Maybe we now have to call it "The 'S' Word"?

Yes, it describes a horrible feature of humanity, the diminution of one person to be the property of another. But then there's other legitimate words that describe horrible things. Like nasty diseases. Gonorrhea is horrible. So is syphilis, and diphtheria and typhoid and leprosy. But if you had one of those things wouldn't you want your doctor to tell you exactly what it was, or have them say "Oh dear. You have a case of Ghastly Frightfulness, but it could be worse. It might have been "Yucky Yucky" or "God is Cross with you" or even "Don't Come Near Me". (That last one is Covid, obviously)

If we don't say the word it will all go away. 🙄

But not all 5-letter dictionary words were in the Wordle pool of 5-letter words. And that pool may have been reduced further.

I seem to remember a certain Bilbo Baggins tossing a couple of faggots on the fire, to keep the baddies away at night.

I do. I extracted the list of words from the original and NYT versions and did a comparison. the words are all in the javascript on the page. there are 2309 possible answers in the NYT version and a further 10638 allowed words.

I have no idea where you got this from. It just isn't true. looking through the list there are 3914 words ending in S in the allowed list. not all of them are plurals but quite a number are.

Is it really being abandoned though? For example my whole team still refers to slave processes when talking about processes that simply receive commands and execute from a main or master process that load balances the commands. Never has anyone questioned the usage because really it's our business how we want to internally organize or label, the client does not micro manage details. I would suspect the term will exist for decades to come in code everywhere(nevermind the fact that there are banks out there still running 40 year old cobol code and other artifact applications). Now the term has been missused, for example when talking about a database with a high availability backup or secondary process, slave is an incorrect term, really you are talking about a backup master there. A slave has no context, it receives command and executes as part of a simple parallelization model.

Scrabble banned culchie as well, ....

Lynch? What if your surname is Lynch?

Proper nouns are not allowed