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What's a word and what's the point

When you're thinking about what to add to an English dictionary, you could include any set of letter than any English speaker ever intentionally put in print, but that seems very pointless. Most dictionaries won't add words until there's evidence of uptake in the general community of English speakers or in a specialist subcommunity for a specialist dictionary. Most of the words your adding just don't have that. For example hybristophilic appears in the billion word Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) exactly zero times. This is just a nice idea that somebody had, but it's not an English word. Nobody uses it and it doesn't belong here.

But even when you have words that are occasionally used, but only in certain highly-specialized communities – words such as gynocentric, which appears 0.03 times per million words in COCA – it's very hard to see the point of putting them in the Simple English dictionary. So I would ask that you go through what you've added, and try to figure out what's a real word and what is not. When you've done that, I suggest that you try to figure out, of the real words, which really belong in the Simple English Wikitionary. And then, perhaps you could nominate all the other entries for deletion.--Brett (talk) 22:02, 20 December 2020 (UTC)