Anyone got a list of the stems used for the "Type One" designation, etc? Thanks in advance, Ed...
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Ed
letter_mun2000
Jan 8, 2011 12:11 am
Anyone got a list of the stems used for the "Type One" designation, etc? Thanks in advance, Ed...
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Ed
letter_mun2000
Jan 11, 2011 9:40 pm
Anyone got a way to get a list of the high-fives plus their anagrams, short of combining separate lists of the words containing each individual 4-5 point...
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Becky Dyer
bdyer22002
Jan 13, 2011 7:20 pm
I'm trying to study Collins for the first time. I think this is "CSW" in zyzzyva. But when I run a search, no words come up. For example, if I search for...
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Becky Dyer
bdyer22002
Jan 13, 2011 7:36 pm
Solved this by rebuilding the database. Works fine now....
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Ed
letter_mun2000
Jan 18, 2011 4:14 am
Hi all, Thanks for the help as I get more and more familiar with this great program! Two questions: 1. I can get the Welcome and FAQ files, but is there...
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Michael Thelen
thelenm
Jan 18, 2011 6:13 pm
... For some reason I still haven't figured out, the help system just doesn't work on a Mac. I've spent many hours reading documentation trying to get it to...
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Michael Thelen
thelenm
Jan 18, 2011 7:01 pm
... Er, I forgot to mention that you can access all the help documentation through the Welcome screen in Zyzzyva. Open a Welcome screen and click the Table of...
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Lewis Martinez
scrabbletd
Jan 29, 2011 3:33 am
Sooner or later it had to happen. Today on my zyzzyva quiz I missed AAAGRMN. Lewis Martinez...
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Kristian Saether
kris.saether
Jan 29, 2011 2:52 pm
That's not so bad, I've found that one tough to spot in the past and have now trained myself to see it based upon the pointer-phony MARANGA*, which always...
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Richard Johnson
iamoffbyone
Feb 4, 2011 2:24 am
During the rolling blackouts due to the recent un-Texas-like on-going freeze, when I restarted my computer, I got a strange message about my profile, so it...
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Michael Thelen
thelenm
Feb 4, 2011 4:13 am
... Almost always, when Zyzzyva surprises you by asking to rebuild the database, it's because the data directory preference somehow doesn't match up with where...
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Richard Johnson
iamoffbyone
Feb 4, 2011 7:46 pm
That's it! Somehow, Z built the databases under \Documents and Settings\HelpAssistant\.zyzzyva. I pointed it to \Documents and Settings\rfj\Zyzzyvz (not...
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ben.withers@...
ben.withers...
Feb 7, 2011 5:18 pm
If I create and edit a search in Zyzzyva, then it is easy to see the word table and to export it so I can print it out, which is handy since I like to know...
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Michael Thelen
thelenm
Feb 7, 2011 5:36 pm
On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 9:55 AM, ben.withers@... ... You may want to use the In Word List condition, which is described here: ...
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Mary Rhoades
mrhoades76021
Feb 7, 2011 6:14 pm
Does that work for a spreadsheet? Mary...
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Michael Thelen
thelenm
Feb 7, 2011 6:42 pm
... I don't think Zyzzyva will read a spreadsheet file directly, but if you can export the spreadsheet in a plain-text format with each word being the first...
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Mary Rhoades
mrhoades76021
Feb 7, 2011 8:18 pm
Actually I was thinking about exporting from Zyzzya to a spreadsheet with only the words, not probabilities or definitions. Then I can import it to my iPhone...
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Michael Thelen
thelenm
Feb 7, 2011 9:53 pm
... You might try exporting from Zyzzyva to a plain text file with words only, as you mentioned. Then try importing that file into a spreadsheet program as a...
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Martin DeMello
martindemello
Feb 8, 2011 12:06 pm
I think excel actually lets you specify the separator, so you could set it to space. Do you think an actual csv export would be a useful thing for zyzzyva to...
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Michael Thelen
thelenm
Feb 8, 2011 5:44 pm
... Actually yes, export to CSV seems like a very natural thing to want to do with a table of words. Good idea, thanks! -- Michael W. Thelen mthelen@......
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christofpitzer
Feb 21, 2011 12:49 am
Hi guys, as a German Scrabble player I´m interested in the support of Umlauts like Ä, Ö, Ü. When in quizzes tile sets are switched on, the tile for the...
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Michael Thelen
thelenm
Feb 22, 2011 5:03 am
On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 5:49 PM, christofpitzer ... Thanks, this is a great suggestion. I've just changed the Zyzzyva code so this should work. The fix will be...
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Kristian Saether
kris.saether
Feb 22, 2011 5:48 am
Should have given fair warning, so many definition errors. Wish I'd tracked them as I saw them. Can you roll out a more regular update schedule for us to work...
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Michael Thelen
thelenm
Feb 22, 2011 6:04 am
On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 10:48 PM, Kristian Saether ... Send any definition fixes my way and I'll see if I can include them. Whenever you notice a definition...
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Michael Thelen
thelenm
Feb 22, 2011 6:27 am
On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 7:46 PM, Kristian Saether ... I'm sorry it's taken me so long to respond to this. Unfortunately this seems to happen on rare occasions...
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Steven Alexander
stevena17
Feb 22, 2011 5:50 pm
... Do you count clear mistakes in the source dictionary, as opposed to mere infelicities? I have in mind things like "refugium refugia REFUGIUM n pl. -GIA a...
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Michael Thelen
thelenm
Feb 22, 2011 6:08 pm
... Sure. It looks like this should read "climatic";, not "climactic", right? I'll make that change right now. -- Michael W. Thelen mthelen@......
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Michael Thelen
thelenm
Feb 23, 2011 6:39 am
I've released a new version of Zyzzyva, 2.1.1. Zyzzyva is a program for studying words, practicing anagramming, and adjudicating challenges. It runs on...
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jcg
jcgreen000
Feb 23, 2011 1:37 pm
Norton Antivirus strongly recommended I not install this program as I would be only the fifth Norton user to install it. Norton suggested I let some early...
