10) Crosswords: What errors are known in Chambers Words?
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This article is from the Crosswords FAQ, by James A. Lundon (jlundon@xstacy.enet.dec.com) with numerous contributions by others.
10) Crosswords: What errors are known in Chambers Words?
Chambers Words is a tremendously useful publication, but assorted people
have found many errors in it. The following errors are due to Ian Gent,
Hubert Gent, Roger Phillips, and Judith Underwood.
Words in Chambers Dictionary but not in Words:
aband, abelia, aemule, aflaj, aidos, alaap, alap, alapa, alcazar,
alferez, alforja, alkene, alkyne, alopecoid, an-heires, andvile, antick,
anticke, ashet, astun, atchieve, avant-propos, bandeirante, berob,
bibite, bro, brust, camaron, cilia, clamor, Datel, Datin, Datuk, Dayak,
demarche, diner-out, diseur, dojo, douane, Dyak, edite, emplonge, emule,
ennuying, epuise, estro, etatiste, etrenne, eudiometer, Exocet, falaj,
franticly, geare, gerle, glom, good-sense, graduateship, graphicly,
griped, grypt, hadal, holesom, holesome, hombre, honey-seed, hony-seed,
illite, iroko, jamahiriya, jamahiriyah, karsey, karsy, karzy, kazatzka,
kazi, Kru-boy, Kru-man, ksar, latrant, lavatera, leaperous, leaporous,
leaprous, limail, macro, matinee, missa, mnemonic, mose, Navaho, Navajo,
nomen, nomina, nork, noyes, ocotillo, one-time, oneyer, oneyre, oppo,
ossa, oughly, ouglie, pierst, plast, plaste, pousse, preif, pursew,
rallye, red-wing, redwing, relie, requight, rewarewa, rurp, shalom,
simi, sowsse, spavin, spudding, spyre, stater, sted, stedd, steddy,
stede, stedfast, steedy, Syncom, tagmeme, talak, talaq, talek, tarp,
thread-lace, todde, tranchet, unhip, vahine, vicegerent, vigoro, whidah,
whydah
Words spelt incorrectly in Words:
Anglophabiac for anglophobiac
artillary for artillery
bibliogical for bibliological
bumalc for bumalo
cacodaemom for cacodaemon
cullysim for cullyism
daiquari for daiquiri
double-mined for double-minded
faith-cube for faith-cure
glassfulls for glassfuls
greviousness for grievousness
inseperableness for inseparableness
jodphurs for jodhpurs
knat-bottle for knap-bottle
Nothofagust for Nothofagus
nephratic for nephrotic
olephilic for oleophilic
outerware for outerwear
Owlspiegel for Owlspiegle
ouabian for ouabain
pachydacious for pachydactylous
priep for prief
pugilistial for pugilistical
reconsituent for reconstituent
retensionist for retentionist
sabre-battling for sabre-rattling
smarago for smaragd
stenpoaeic for stenopaeic
synonimical for synonymical
syzgial for syzygial
tasseiling for tasselling
totemastic for totemistic
transferribilty for transferribility
trisulphine for trisulphide
turbidimiter for turbidimeter
unforgiveable for unforgivable
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