Project Hyper

[Jimmy Gough]

Waiting for final confirmation from Lesley and Jimmy but I think we're all done!

Yeah, I'm all done.

[Lesley Hines]

Woohoo!

If I was the last then we're all done. Feel free to do more hyper Duels now we've got a complete word list - I'll still be submitting 7s

Btw, when's the new edition of the ODE due to be published...?

[Charlie Reams]

Woo!

With the group work mostly done, it's now time for some serious auditing, cross-checking, filtering and such like. I'm estimating this will take about a week, so the new revitalised editions of Hyper and Unlimited should be online by next Sunday, all being well.

Thanks so much to everyone who's contributed, it's been actually pretty fun for me and I hope the other typists enjoyed taking their lexonerdery to its logical conclusion. The new edition comes out early 2010 so see you all for that! (No not really, I don't think anyone studies hyper hard enough to really care.)

[Howard Somerset]

Well done everyone. It was great to be part of this exercise. Fortunately, Monday to Friday last week were convenient days for me, which meant that I was able to contribute during that time. Well done for getting through during the weekend.

It's quite amazing getting a mammoth job like that done within one week. Not only did it need a band of willing volunteers, but the job needed good organisation, which it clearly had.

Don't forget to remove those mistypes I've already mentioned, Charlie, together with that word that's still recorded as the second longest.

[Lesley Hines]

BETTING OPPORTUNITY ALERT!

Currently claimed:
72,001 - 73,000 (Charlie Reams)
42,001 - 43,000 (Matt Morrison)

Unlucky Matt, guess that means no-one's won. Still, that's not such a bad thing since you seemed to change your block every time the estimate changed! You'd be a great bookie!

[Matt Morrison]

BETTING OPPORTUNITY ALERT!

Currently claimed:
72,001 - 73,000 (Charlie Reams)
42,001 - 43,000 (Matt Morrison)

Unlucky Matt, guess that means no-one's won. Still, that's not such a bad thing since you seemed to change your block every time the estimate changed! You'd be a great bookie!

Damn you! I meant to get in and change that before anyone quoted it! I was still closer than Charlie :p

[Ben Hunter]

Sorry for just leaving my block, had some life admin to take care of. Also, I can't remember adding MOUSEMOTHERS to spindlex...

Well done everyone

[JimBentley]

Sorry for just leaving my block, had some life admin to take care of. Also, I can't remember adding MOUSEMOTHERS to spindlex...

As I'm old and slow, it took me a good couple of hours to realise it was probably meant to be HOUSEMOTHERS.

[Charlie Reams]

However, I've just come across the word SICKNESS, which is listed in its own right, and not as a derivative of SICK. I'm sure it would be reasonable to pluralise SICKNESS, indeed one of its definitions is a particular type of illness, which lends itself to pluralisation, yet SICKNESS is quite definitely listed only as a mass noun.

Should I add SICKNESSES to the list, or should I be pedantic and omit it?

For the record, SICKNESS actually does have a count noun sense (under the second bullet point) so the ODE actually got something right for once.