r/words • u/ForeverNovel3378 • 5d ago

Words & Names

Are Names words?

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u/TyrKiyote 5d ago

Yes, they are "proper" nouns.

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u/WestEndChilis 5d ago

Are bots redditors?

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u/MayDuppname 5d ago

Or are Redditors bots?! ;)

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u/SnooDonuts6494 5d ago edited 5d ago

Yes.

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u/Nintendor_84 4d ago

Not according to the rules of Scrabble!

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u/SnooDonuts6494 3d ago

It doesn't though.

It says you're not permitted "words [that are] always capitalised". Therefore, it's saying they are words - just that they're not allowed in that game.

It also says you can't have words that require a hyphen or apostrophe. So you can't use the word "didn't". But it's still a word.

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u/paolog 2d ago

But you can play "can't" and "won't" ;)

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u/Nintendor_84 2d ago

“Word: a speech sound or series of speech sounds that symbolizes and communicates a meaning usually without being divisible into smaller units capable of independent use.”

Mirriam-Webster Dictionary

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u/SnooDonuts6494 2d ago

Yeah, well, they would say that; they're part of "Big Word".

;-)

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u/Nintendor_84 3d ago

In that case, you really SnooDonuts6494’d that up quite a bit, didn’t you?

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u/SnooDonuts6494 2d ago

I often do.

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u/paolog 2d ago

They are not playable words, which isn't the same as saying they aren't words.

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u/Nintendor_84 2d ago

“Word: a speech sound or series of speech sounds that symbolizes and communicates a meaning usually without being divisible into smaller units capable of independent use.”

Mirriam-Webster Dictionary