WordNet errors and omissions

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Errors/omissions in WordNet 2.1

• flick knife,flick-knife duplicate synsets
• lead time is a shouuld be is an
• Romania is not Balkan
• Claes Oldenberg should be Claes Oldenburg
• May Day many places besides the US
• pollard as should be has
• Wade may should be many
• quadrant two glosses the same
• cock-a-hoop also just very pleased
• FLETC,USSS,INS,FEMA need updating for 2003 reorganization
• estate car should be in same synset as station wagon
• leap year gloss wrong (centenary years that are divisible by 400)
• engross, scary circular gloss
• head nurse has to be a woman?
• imaginary not the same as complex (no real part)
• redundant check redundancy check
• airdrome hangers should be hangars
• flair[3] not alternative for flare
• doojigger dojigger?
• college not British slang for prison
• moke,dekko no gloss
• guff,buncombe not behavior (just nonsense)
• wanton away,aegir,vapourous,vaporousness,billy-ho,billyoh wrong/v rare
• twirp verb?
• Phanerozoic gloss wrong
• Heimlich manoeuvere
• short shrift two nearly identical glosses
• realine
• detestable,devastating circular glosses
• vowelize odd usage example
• Aalost should be Aalst
• commendable adv is commendably
• pundit poor gloss (add punditry)
• order(v) "order these files" used as example in two different senses
• fake(v2) circular gloss
• weasel missing person and verb senses
• boytrose botyrose
• moisturize makes less dry, not more humid
• atomic weight def wrong
• Ireland not part of British Commonwealth
• airmail, air mail; bronco buster,broncobuster: two equivalent synsets
• braid most glosses circular
• swiz no gloss
• cradlesong duplicate senses
• desegrated
• faggpting
• tocktact
• tekki
• yanquapin
• unergetic
• unlicenced unlicensed also in UK
• sum,tyyn Uzbek currency is som and tiyin
• trombiculiid
• transmigrante
• tranquilising tranquillising
• suppuku seppuku
• squasy
• simmpleness
• sicative siccative
• sallade salade
• robolo robalo
• pusly pussly
• pointilist
• pointilism correct in other synset
• ployurethan
• photoplatemaking
• noxiptiline nortriptyline? (other synset)
• misspeka
• misrepresentaation correct in other synset
• micophage mycophage
• megesterol megestrol
• megalp magilp?
• magnificio should be magnifico
• lumma
• leguminious correct form exists
• legin
• lechartelierite lechatelierite(other synset)
• iproclozid iproclozide?
• hyerbolise
• extraorinaire
• langlauffer should be langlaufer
• foamentation
• foryml
• hardore
• honostyled
• hatoglobin haptoglobin
• glipzide glipizide
• gastromy (gastrostomy exists)
• espanole espagnole
• epkwele ? doesn't seem to be a money unit
• epicine epicene
• entremots entremets
• ennervation enervation
• diamonte diamante
• despiraminedesipramine
• deodourant, glamourisation, glamourization (British spellings also no 'u')
• delapidate
• dotrel, entric, fedelline, improvize, inexperient, innocense, irrevokable, kwai, lobscuse, meerestone, mesophyron, mujahadein, oscheocoele, pesantran, relatiative, sarcocystieian, sarcolemnous, schtickl, schtikl, thysanuron wrong or very rare
• capitualtion, recapitualtion
• cricify
• cosmogenical non-word
• colchine wrong for colchicine? (in other synset)
• cerripede, cerriped should be cirripede,cirriped
• chanal wrong or very rare for chanar
• andosite (should be adesite, in another sysnet)
• madake brown should be grown
• nitrochloromethane, land resources or should be of
• bare[v] duplicate and circular glosses
• international intelligence agency very US-centric definition
• Iraqi Mukhabarat etc needs updating
• centesimo no longer in Italy; check Chile
• apostasy or should be for
• free radical than has lost
• bully[n] needs separate accurate synset (also check lout,yob,ruffian, etc)
• Mitterand should be Mitterrand
• Sunderland in northeastern England
• sclaff(v) gold ball should be golf ball
• Navratilova born in 1956
• Mauritian (adj) not same as Mauritanian
• Arthur Conan Doyle British not English (born in Scotland)
• ETA on should be an
• sex up not really same as eroticize (make more interesting generally)
• superbug missing general sense
• abysmal main sense missing
• prosciuto
• flagellation also erotic (or religious)
• odoriferous "Giving off an odour" and "Emitting an odour"
• yob poor gloss "cruel and brutal fellow" (c.f. hoodlum)
• cordon most common sense missing
• put up[1] gloss circular
• medai guru
• shrive not same as squeal
• sough not alternative for sow
• erreminise
• Indian states some missing (Kerala, etc)
• honor killing probably pre-Muslim, and certainly not exclusively Muslim
• serum does not contain fibrinogen
• tiddley very rare for "tiddly" (which is slightly, not blind drunk)
• partitia should be partita
• manoeuver non-standard mixed US-UK spelling (maneuver/manoeuvre)
• biennial not an antonym of annual
• affectioned no gloss
• EU member links need updating
• hussy/slut not same as adulteress
• bondage, strain(v), pass through, assimilatory, prescribed syntax error in examples
• commodity,good,product gloss plural

Missing alternative forms: ozonise, cream-coloured, creamy-coloured, liver-coloured, pale-coloured, pastel-coloured, peach-coloured, rosy-coloured, rose-coloured, tricolour, silver-coloured, creolise, vaporised

Errors/omissions in WordNet 2.0 and 2.1

• double creme(etc) in UK double cream=heavy cream, double cream as listed should be double creme?
• stray such should be suck
• predeterminaation
• Camden is near Philadelphia
• sightread/sight-read duplicate
• Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh not secret
• sorbet no milk (=water ice)
• retrenchment financial should be financially
• rescind circular gloss
• Age group missing of
• place(v5), jimmy (etc) inconsistent usage example separation punctuation
• checking account drawn should be draw (also add UK current account, Canadian chequing account)
• give out gloss the same
• periapsis as should be an
• bulima nervosa
• lighten duplicate glosses
• pioneer settler should be settlers
• go by two identical glosses
• mews building should be buildings
• twiddle her should be his (He twiddled her)
• invoice, sit-up, aperture, butt shaft, clipper, crown jewel, DAT, arcus, streetcar, air alert, caption, collision, Murray, authoritarian,crooked an should be a
• plastinate, Sistine Chapel,decisive an should be and
• head_start delete an
• PhD is not just American (also don't use "graduate school" which is N American term)
• enraged attached should be attacked
• nemesis causes should be causing
• anneal check "toughen"
• honor pay should be payment
• settlement[5] the should be they
• GDP is not just US, spurious by
• latisimus dorsi should be latissimus
• character reference to should be too
• differentiator need not be a person; "or that which"
• autosuggestion not same as self-hypnosis
• boil "the brought to water to a boil"
• scary circular (and poor) gloss
• trouble-shoot usually no hyphen
• negative(n2) can be color
• white/Black person capitalization inconsistency (also in some defs)
• compiler not just of encyclopedias
• hajj month wrong, is in the 12th month: Dhu al-Hijjah not Dhu al-Qadah
• Bellingham is in northwestern not northeastern Washington
• alright Adj. no gloss ("nonstandard usage"); Adv. reinforces should be reinforce
• Dharhan should be Dhahran
• hungry thirsty is not antonymous
• due to def doesn't need "followed by to", maybe list under "due"
• over (cricket) is 6 balls everywhere
• managua managua should be Nicaragua
• pert gloss circular
• Liberal Party no longer exists in Britain (became Liberal Democrats); exists in Canada, Australia and other countries (also Conservative Party is not just British)
• jailbird someone who has repeatedly been in prison, but not neccessarily currently doing time
• bubble and squeak does not normally have meat in
• Ptolemy rephrase to avoid interpretation that the time of Copernicus was the 2nd century AD
• sic not just dogs ("Niger - Mayor sics sorcerers on city's evil spirits"); alternative form "sick"
• Tswana also official language of S. Africa (missing Shangaan,Tsonga,Venda,Pedi; Xhosa also a people)
• Sindhi gloss refers to Sindhi people which are undefined
• Canuck not plural, and not US slang (e.g. used informally in Canada)
• arbitrarily add mathematical sense "arbitrarily large"
• nerd bad definition (also, add nerdy)
• badaga check def: language should be type of Southern Dravidian, not type of Kannada
• quarter[10] coin is not just US (e.g. Canada)
• Turkey "achieved independence" is misleading
• airline senses surely in wrong order
• forte (n) is just loud, not "great loudness"
• blighted events should be prevents
• outsource rather in example is odd
• vizla should be vizsla
• pay out gloss the same
• hypoxia def odd - just oxygen deficiency
• Bradley may should be mayor
• wine-colored as noun (add wine-coloured)
• cackel (cackle exists)
• dictostylium, genus Dictostylium should be dictyostelium
• loud-hailer, chin-wag unhyphened much more common
• margrave German not British (usage tag)
• metastasis not synonymous with metabolism
• extremely three defs "To an extreme degree"
• headwaters list as singular?
• u should be U
• transcend, refocus two identical glosses
• fascia/facia much more common senses missing
• Ice pack
• Ulster Defense Association except sometime in US should be "Defence"
• prise spelling for "valued" is prize; "pry" sense add US spelling "prize"
• deodourise,chevvy, spelaeologist, ezed, negociate,odourise,malodourous,cosey,cozey,tea cosey,tea cozey,tea cozie, licencee, colorise, decolorise very rare/misspellings?
• kuru, asper the Turkish currency is kurus (same sing and pl)
• snog def wrong (at least in UK means to kiss amorously, not same as spoon)
• favourite son UK spelling but only US definition
• exboyfriend,laborsaving,by election hyphened form much more common (ex-girlfriend?)
• stoolpigeon,pakchoi two words much more common
• pasturized milk (another synset "pasteurized milk" exists) - add semi-skimmed milk
• snarf eating, not stealing? + other senses
• flatware cutlery sense
• English muffin is not same as crumpet (also add just "muffin")
• Wally, Angst, Lady-in-waiting,etc why upper case?
• colour (etc) senses in different (odd) order compared to color
• active[10] syntax errors in usage examples
• MI_6,MI_5 syntax errors in database
• carry-the can
• layby rare?
• police office not British
• Anthozoa odd gloss structure
• subscribe does not have to be paid (e.g. email list)
• bevy does not have to be women
• speed(v1) 'step on it' unhelpful and undefined
• A level, O levels O levels now GCSEs
• stock option for employees
• Father Christmas,service station,dinner service gloss unhelpful
• ass-kisser more someone who sucks up/toadies
• King's English currently more often 'Queen's English' (c.f. RP (received pronunciation), BBC English)
• liberalism,conservative defs could be improved/modernized (add Conservative)
• frontbencher should be shadow not ex
• fuddy-duddy more old-fashioned, conservative
• extension(6): can be more than three letters (.java, etc)
• nutcase more mad/foolish
• flypast not synonym of overpass (in UK only means aeroplanes)
• barrister, chartered accountant not just British, e.g. Canada
• tailback (etc) football -> American football, otherwise ambiguous
• woman suggestions to avoid hassles from overzealous young feminists: make 1st sense usage example more modern; cleaning lady sense add "employed" to gloss and add usage example (e.g. "I have a woman that comes in for four hours a day while I write")
• cognoscenti is plural (not "an expert") - sing. strictly cognoscente
• British Commonwealth many members not linked (Nigeria, etc, etc)
• Holocaust possibly rephrase to avoid arguable word "program"
• pound also Northern Ireland (i.e. UK not Great Britain)
• Irish Free State,Dublin,Dail,Oireachtas,Seanad,RHD Irish Free State is historical (c.f. def of "de Valera"!): "Republic of Ireland"
• Labor Party also Australia; socialization only historically
• flagitious/heinous maybe more wicked/criminal than neccessarily brutal or cruel
• Briticism English is not same as British
• borscht not exclusively Russian (Polish, Ukrainian)
• die def should be non-plural
• unratable undefined
• dishy means sexually attractive not (just) good-looking
• warder is not in charge of a prison
• trifle dodgy def (in UKnot usually wine (sherry perhaps) or jam; custard is part of it not served with)
• toff more wealth/class than dressing
• tiddly,tipsy a bit drunk, not very drunk
• parky does not have pleasant connotations of "crisp"
• jean(etc) use "trousers" as pants different in UK
• overspill not same as overpopulation (it's after it has moved, or being moved)
• luggage usually collective (not "a case")
• Prime Minister/prime minister UK not England
• dogsbody 'domestic servant' far too specific "Someone given boring menial tasks"
• bloke any man in the UK, not (usually) old like a geezer
• blooming(a) does not have to be of persons; "bloody computers"
• post office is not specific to the US; "A building where postal services are available" (though game sense=postman's knock in UK)
• shatter two glosses the same. Add figurative sense.
• travesty main sense more "misrepresentation"
• Greece no mention of ancient Greece
• Borstal historical only (lower case?)
• bespoke adj gloss non-descriptive. Does not have to be clothing (e.g. software).
• level(l)er main noun sense unusual
• short list noun tagged UK, verb not (verb correct?)
• pogy is Canadian - only dole is UK
• chaja naive should be native
• scotch tapev defined in terms of "sellotape" (only listed capitalized)
• bumf never used as toilet paper (etymology only)
• potty(adj) more "crazy" than trivial ("he went a bit potty"), also very enthusiastic ("he's potty about her")
• bang"banged hair" - unknown sense? (add UK "fringe")
• ironmongery what is sold in the store, not the store? ("ironmonger's"). ironmonger is becoming dated
• cablecar British sense is same as US "tram"
• table(v) missing (opposite!) British sense
• anna more commonly an Indian coin
• Great Britain Northern Ireland is not part of it (i.e. not synonym of UK)
• yuppie should be more general
• overbalance def?
• Nasser, Molly Pitcher date wrong
• big bang theory The *mass* wasn't small! "(cosmology) the theory that the universe originated less than 20 billion years ago from a very small volume with extremely high density and temperature"
• closed universe def wrong: a closed universe is spatially closed (non-flat and finite), and may or may not recollapse; "(cosmology) universe which is spatially closed with positive curvature, as when there is a larger matter density than that required for large scale spatial flatness. A closed universe containing only conventional matter will recollapse according to general relativity, however in the presence of dark energy (cosmological constant) a closed universe can expand for ever"
• cosmic radiation "cosmic rays" is wrong - e.g. the CMB isn't cosmic rays; "Radiation coming from outside the solar system"
• Hubble's constant is not actually a constant - usually defined as measuring the expansion rate today; in general not simply related to the age (also Hubble parameter)
• determinant is not a square matrix; "(mathematics) a scalar quantity derived from a matrix giving the volume scaling of the matrix operation; equal to the product of the eigenvalues of a square matrix"
• operator does not have to act on functions; "(mathematics) a symbol or other entity that represents or performs a mathematical operation"
• factorization def too specific; "(mathematics) the resolution of an entity into factors such that when multiplied together they give the original entity"
• G give value?
• spring onion should be same synset as green onion, scallion?
• onion two synsets the same ?
• Isle of Wight/Channel islands/Isle of Man should also be part of British Isles (White is England/UK, others not)
• Hispanic/Latino distinction in meaning?
• abseil the double rope is not coiled around the body
• forensic unhelpful gloss (add forensics)
• popinjay no gloss -"archaic"?
• Napea vague def
• Mother Theresa was born in Skopje (not in Albania)
• pom definition wrong; "a disparaging term for a British person"
• Jerusalem the status as capital of Israel is disputed
• barramunda is not the lung fish Neoceratodus forsteri
• peg informal terms of the leg
• openwork a should be as
• trephination,charge[5], rite of passage, Vireo olivaceous,coffee-table book,fixture,haik,heckelphone,oboe d'amore,petard,shoe bomb,sight[4],sun gear,stateliness, novel, simplification, barnburner,peanut oil, Biloxi, Tuscarora, art editor, licenser,owner-occupier,regulator,amperage,spherical aberration,dumb cane,pennyroyal oil,Boletus edulis,electrifying a should be an
• tiddler example should have "youngster"
• timothy frown should be grown
• chary cautious should be caution
• static cause should be caused
• stint[3] missing apostrophe
• ramekin "bread and egg crumbs" should read "egg and breadcrumbs"
• tweet week should be weak
• hang[v3] murdered should be murderer
• column (architeture)
• pacifism in should be is
• linear operator function(s)
• volvulus are should be area
• restraint the of
• echidna,hike up and and
• Taoism by of
• take a joke one's one
• marginal, Adonic, ionic, corinthian, doric or or
• shingling draft should be craft
• sectional of of
• ergo sentenced
• bib "A napkin tied under the chin a child while eating"
• exile(2 senses) is a person
• affiliate(v) two identical glosses
• cunt also often used of men
• England used in glosses where it should be Britain or UK (e.g. water_closet, Anglophobia, Blighty, clary etc)
• pimp also standard in UK (but ponce has alternative meaning: effeminate or gay man)
• chequer alternative for checker sense 3, not sense 1.
• national service not just UK (UK doesn't have it now)
• M-theory, string theory not really cosmology - more particle physics

• real - currency in Brazil
• searing - metaphorical sense
• anorak - geeky person
• put down - kill (an animal)
• mahogany- color
• vixen - female fox
• plastic - credit cards
• barracouta, snoek
• hype (v), nuanced (adj), cruddy, demise(verb), grass(noun, weak form of supergrass), programmatically, Asperger's Syndrome, sesquicentennial, expense(verb), gangsta, hype(verb)
• cloaca sewer sense is archaic, missing zoology sense
• beltwayUS=ring road?
• shop assistantUK=salesclerk
• pedestrian crossingUK=crosswalk?
• sandpitUK=sandbox
• sanitary towelUK=sanitary napkin
• signal boxUS=signal tower?
• baking trayUK=cookie sheet
• cocotte missing casserole sense
• jumperUK=sweater
• remit common UK noun sense missing
• swinge missing more common sense
• chipsUK=fries
• missing alternative forms biotech, Bangla, buck's fizz(=mimosa[3]), naan(=nan), nana/nanna (=nan), practise (1 sense), practised (1 sense) expat,Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, FYROM, mo (Brit=moment), veg(Brit=vegetable)

Suggested additions (including most frequently searched for missing words and words common in the BNC):
carve out, paragliding, Baikal, twentieth-century, settlor, self-proclaimed, recombinant, corporatism, corporatist, client-server, centre half, centre back, aromatherapy, modal verb, nelson(wrestling), Guantanamo Bay, bhaji, historicism, glop, happy-clappy, pavlova(dessert), defeat), cliquey, G7/G8, swivet, Asperger's syndrome, Potemkin, Karl Popper, canola, skeeter/mozzie, Provençale, unicode, courante, dibs, sitting pretty, STD, parameterize(-ise), posterize/ise, profiterole, gazillion, learning curve, Freon, nuanced, downshift, apparatchik, eschaton, reflexology, biopic, boatyard, blaxploitation, discography, extraordinaire, complicit, ratatouille, nisei, subwoofer, MPEG, hottie, cutie, thixotropic, petroglyph, snarky, Humvee, Duma, ansatz, twinkie, gee-whiz, pound sign, to wit, bling/bling-bling(common in UK), frig(usually frigging), poxy, jok(e)y, creme de la creme, manana, box lunch/packed lunch/cut lunch, navel-gazing, headhunt, catch 22, polyamory, G-spot, cavitation, basmati, multidisciplinary, prequel, piecewise, adware, workaround, feng-shui, liposuction, [coalfish, coley, saithe, sillock], permille, pococurante, OEM, chiral, [short apples: Bramley, etc], ballsy, contra(nicaragua), pilates, boy band, bukkake, coronavirus, intercity, limescale, moccachino, pros and cons, self-inflicted, service provider, themed, 24-7, wunderkind, fair play, false bottom, false start, fanzine, fast forward, far gone, feta, fly-half, French Guiana, earplug, delimiter, eatery, girlie, turbo, xenophobe, kewl (web), fibromyalgia, arthrotomy, Reuters, phat, codec, warez, complicit, diktat, en suite, Avalon, munchkin, sequitur, storyboard, film noir, metrosexual, CCD, shall, shalt, ciabatta, fuckwit, Potsdam, foosball, quesadilla, hokey cokey, intercity, moccachino, ballsy, boy band, limescale, self-inflicted, vide, white spirit, placing(n), demise(v)

Common regional senses missing:
Aus/NZ: chook, rort, shonky,home unit,gunyah,fibro,Doona,daggy,bunyip,Buckley's,brickfielder, bludge,beltman,barbie,arvo,lolly(=candy),op shop,bathers,removalist,stickybeak,de facto,Doona,ocker,tucker,jackaroo,didgeridoo, dinkum, dunny, joey,sheila,jube,jumbuck,larrikin,mullock,nong,nork,road train,roo,sharefarmer,skerrick,spruik,stonkered,stubby(n),two-up,vigoro,wharfie,wobble board,woomera,wowser, John Howard(etc)
Can:eavestrough, loonie, toonie, parkade, tuque, Parti Québécois, Canadian Shield, Canadienne, Canadiana, social assistance,riding,hydro,Chrétien, Martin(+older, esp Trudeau, etc..)
Ir: Bertie Ahern(etc),Taoiseach, garda
Brit+other non-US: Cantabrigian(a), director-general, barney, footy, wanker/tosser(fool), poofter, oilseed rape(canola), mains(electricity), squash(concentrated drink), spunk(semen), sherbert(fizzy sweet), shattered(exhausted), knock-up(warm up), knock up(make), deadbeat(tired, idle man), chippy, speed camera, treacle(thick black stuff),Girl Guide(also CA),tailback(traffic), charlie(fool), mucker, honorary(unpaid), saddo(uncool person), look smart(quick),pootle,Rawlplug,rat run,brill(adj),growbag,Y-fronts, flapjack(not=pancake),filter(traffic light), Heath Robinson, manky(dirty),goolie(usually goolies),V-sign(offensive),try it on,trapezium(sides parallel in UK),traffic warden,toerag,tiddler(fish),tick off(tell off),tickety-boo,titch,superintendent(police),summer pudding,steading,soft fruit,cod(adj,spoof),scrummy,rumble(v,find out),rozzer,rising damp,pebble-dash,oik,NHS,moggy/moggie,local(pub),kite mark,Queen's Speech,juggernaut(truck),income support,hoopla(game),haberdasher(sewing goods),gift token,GCHQ,further education,quids in,fiver(5 quid),black spot(of accidents),bent(dishonest),beano(party),naff,faff/faffing,wrong-foot,fiddly,perv,bucket shop(travel agent),graduand,league table,prom(as in Proms),shag(v),identity parade,bollocking,snig,open day,jelly baby,sweet(=candy),revise(for exams),backbench(er)(Ca,Aus,NZ),Medicare(Canada,Aus),odds and sods,other half,nobble(seek out and persuade),washbag,sticky tape,skip(Dumpster),sandshoe,porridge(time in prison),charity shop,hessian(UK=burlap),granny flat,custard powder,petrol tank,leaded petrol,unleaded petrol,bowser/petrol pump(Aus/UK=gas pump),cack-handed, chappie, alcopop, busk/busker, middle England, roger(v), doorstep (thick bread slice), nick (steal, prison), poo, white spirit, whinge/whinger, willy, wheelie, dosh, wheelie bin, [Suffolk,Middlesex,Cheshire, etc (some are cheeses too)], trolley(=shopping cart), malarkey, Uey, yabber,ashfelt,bog-standard,bust a gut,chunder,French letter,PMT(=PMS), spot on, take the piss, yonks, bumbag, bog(=toilet), plonker, jammy, rat-arsed, slag off, china (friend),scouse
Asia: gherao, prepone
S. Africa: bakkie, braai, lekker, robot(traffic light)