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Add expurgated wordlist for those deemed to be a lower level (5th) of offensive or vulgar interpretation#497

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Add expurgated wordlist for those deemed to be a lower level (5th) of offensive or vulgar interpretation#497
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Expurgated Words
In June 2020, NASPA proposed removing "slurs" from the word list. Despite a sizeable number of players opposing the plan, NASPA decided to remove 259 "offensive slurs" from the official list, and the new purged NWL2020 list goes into effect for club and tournament play on 6 January 2021. [See the NASPA website for more explanation]

http://seattlescrabble.org/expurg.php
http://seattlescrabble.org/expurgOWL2.php

TO DO (done)

  • added data/expurg adjust file
  • modified combine.py to import above file
  • compared pre & post expurg list to identify and fix for following:
    • omit words where had recently been identified as offensive or vulgar in scowl-pre
    • correctly match spellings and variants
    • correctly match bases poses and POS classes
    • re-insert comments which had gotten deleted

Expurgated Words
In June 2020, NASPA proposed removing "slurs" from the word list. Despite a sizeable number of players opposing the plan, NASPA decided to remove 259 "offensive slurs" from the official list, and the new purged NWL2020 list goes into effect for club and tournament play on 6 January 2021. [See the NASPA website for more explanation]

http://seattlescrabble.org/expurg.php
http://seattlescrabble.org/expurgOWL2.php

TO DO (done)
- added data/expurg adjust file
- modified combine.py to import above file
- compared pre & post expurg list to identify and fix for following:
  - omit words where had recently been identified as offensive or vulgar in scowl-pre
  - correctly match spellings and variants
  - correctly match bases poses and POS classes
  - re-insert comments which had gotten deleted
@BOBSINM BOBSINM changed the title Add expurgated wordlist for those deemed to be a higher level (5th) of offensive or vulgar interpretation Add expurgated wordlist for those deemed to be a lower level (5th) of offensive or vulgar interpretation Mar 17, 2026
@kevina kevina marked this pull request as draft March 18, 2026 04:10
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kevina commented Mar 18, 2026

Okay thank you it may take me a little while to get to reviewing this.

Their are some changes I might want to make on my side also before I am ready to accept this so I converted it too a draft for now.

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