#17 Please offer a bowdlerized wordlist for download
== Background ==
Your Android wordlists download page (http://eehouse.org/and_wordlists/) includes "TWL06", which is the 2006 Official Tournament and Club Word List published in North America. But your download page doesn't include any bowdlerized wordlist.
There are censored dictionaries in existence. For example, at least some (if not all) of the editions of the "Official" Scrabble Players Dictionary, published by Merriam-Webster, are at least lightly expurgated.
== My request ==
It would be useful if you could please offer a heavily-bowdlerized worldist for download on your download page.
Heavily bowdlerized. Please even leave out the word "sex", which the CPU plays reasonably often when it has the letter "x". This wordlist would be for the CPU to use, not for players to use.
== Why? ==
I can think of various possible uses for such a thing. For example:
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Parents of pre-teens or teenagers can set their son or daughter's tablet to use this dictionary. That way, the CPU won't play offensive words.
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Religious adults can also set their own device to use this dictionary. That way, the CPU again won't play offensive words.
== More information ==
Please note that I don't know whether or not a bowdlerized wordlist is available for free anywhere online.
You can definitely find a short list of dirty Scrabble words at:
http://web.archive.org/web/members.home.net/scrabble/dirty.txt
You may also be able to get a longer list from elsewhere:
http://www.litscape.com/word_tools/suggest_a_word.php writes: "I scoured the internet for lists of offensive words, and compiled them into one big list. The end result was approximately 2500 offensive words. This list is truly the cesspool of the English language, and because of this, I will not make it available." But maybe, since you maintain a Scrabble game, the Litscape webmaster would make the list available to you upon request.