Crawl is good for your vocabulary

[joellercoaster]

Words Crawl has caused me to go away and find out what they mean recently:

Incunabulum
Henotheism

Got more?

[Grimm]

choko
rambutan
latajang
quokka
megabat

never heard of those things before Crawl

[smeej]

I already knew henotheism and ecumenical, but I don't know where I would be without mephitic. Thank you, air magic!

[mageykun]

Vitrify

[XuaXua]

It also teaches you British English spelling vs. American English.

For example: defence vs. defense.

[pratamawirya]

It also teaches you British English spelling vs. American English.

For example: defence vs. defense.

armour vs armor

[smock]

Liquefaction

[lucy_ferre]

Batrachian.

[hxy]

Grimoire

[hxy]

This reminds me of the IOCCC actually... can't we just call stinking cloud "stinking cloud" ? This is not a complaint... I'm just wondering out loud...

[ghend]

It also teaches you British English spelling vs. American English.

For example: defence vs. defense.

That's a british/american thing? I thought it was a noun/verb thing. The more you know!

[Jeremiah]

That's a british/american thing? I thought it was a noun/verb thing. The more you know!

Unlike practice/practise and licence/license there is no verb "to defense"

[XuaXua]

I discovered it after several failures searching the game wiki for information on the Deck of Defense.

[Kate]

I think Crawl's policy is to use Australian English actually (although yeah, that tends to be the same as British English in terms of spellings), since Linley's Australian so that's how everything was spelt initially.

[Grimm]

Crawl's policy is to use Australian English

This...opens up a vast verbal territory, almost an outback, to exploit. Ladies and gentlemen, we must come up with a way to introduce the words "chunder", "vegemite", "barbie", and many other terms into Crawl.

[mrbobbyg]

I really like "vorpal."

A vorpal weapon should go snicker-snack though.

[Grimm]

The Jabberwock should totally be a unique.

[XuaXua]

Crawl's policy is to use Australian English

This...opens up a vast verbal territory, almost an outback, to exploit. Ladies and gentlemen, we must come up with a way to introduce the words "chunder", "vegemite", "barbie", and many other terms into Crawl.

Cue the Chundering Vegemite Barbies of Zot:5.

[JeffQyzt]

Cue the Chundering Vegemite Barbies of Zot:5.

For the non-Australian English speakers out there - that would a horde of vomiting barbequeue pits made out of processed yeast extract.

[joellercoaster]

Actually, we tend not to have our barbies in pits - I hear the Kiwis are into that sort of thing, though.

(Also, the quokka is already an Australianism!)

[Grimm]

How about a Steve Irwin unique.

[7hm]

How about a Steve Irwin unique.

cue joke about it being undead and followed around by a new ray monster.

Too soon?

[Jenx]

How about a Steve Irwin unique.

cue joke about it being undead and followed around by a new ray monster.

Too soon?

Not really.

Make him spawn in the Lair or Swamp.

[Stormfox]

How about a Steve Irwin unique.

cue joke about it being undead and followed around by a new ray monster.

Too soon?

Not really.

Make him spawn in the Lair or Swamp.

Has to be the Swamp:5 layout where the central vault is shaped like Australia.

[joellercoaster]

Too soon?

Nah. But it should only appear on November 17th.

[vintermann]

Cue the Chundering Vegemite Barbies of Zot:5.

For the non-Australian English speakers out there - that would a horde of vomiting barbequeue pits made out of processed yeast extract.

That sounds like a Dwarf Fortress megabeast.

[sigfried von murdock]

Zealot
Yaktaur
Spriggan
Boggart

[Grimm]

I'm pretty sure yaktaur, spriggan, and boggart were made up for Crawl. They're not "real" words. Could be wrong on boggart.

[mageykun]

Spriggans predate crawl. They're an obscure kind of faery though, and I don't think I'd heard of them pre-Crawl. Boggarts though are more well know- lots of fantasy games have slapped the name on generic goblinoids and ghosty things.

Unless some obscure fantasy author came up with 'em first, I think yaktaurs are ours though. All 12 pages of the Google hits for them come back to crawl. Well, except for one deviant art entry which appears to be of independent origin.

[Grimm]

Well I'll be damned. "Spriggan" sounded totally made up to me. Thanks for the info.

[smeej]

Mythological faeries are pretty awesome, honestly. I would support a fey dungeon branch and then never enter it.

On topic: I new sequester was a word, but sequestration? Thank you, Crawl!