How is this not a word?

I thought it was 'scootched'.

Sydneyd said:

Heh when I type scootched, it changes it to scotched, which is a completely different meaning. (And kind of a scary word)

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How about 'scooted'?

Sydneyd said:

Yes of course, scooted would be an option, but scooched is the only word that will work perfectly! *throws body on floor and flings arms and legs*

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So add it to your spell checker.

Problem solved...until editing/publication, of course

Absolutely! No more limb flinging, now.

Scooched is absolutely positively a word. No doubt. Spell checker hates the really awesome words. It must be jealous.

Sydneyd said:

Me: Go $^@^ yourself!

Spellcheck: (silence) *red lines $^@^*

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FIFY

Scooched isn't in my dictionary (Collins English Dictionary, Complete & Unabridged, 7th Ed, 2005). Of course, that doesn't prove that it's not a valid word, but it's a reasonably large dictionary. Unless scooched has made it in since 2005.

It has scooted. Not scootched.

Oh, like inched?

I use a lot of foreign names and words in my novel, so I'm always adding words to my dictionary or else I will have red squiggly lines everywhere.

RobJ said:

Oh, like inched?

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Inched is further, like, you know, an inch or multiples of inches. Scooch is less than that. Or maybe more. I dunno.

It's a perfectly cromulent word.

Yes. Scooch is a word. After reading this thread I was beginning to think it was a west coast kinda slang, but no. Look here:

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=scooch

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/scooch

WriteMinded said:

Yes. Scooch is a word. After reading this thread I was beginning to think it was a west coast kinda slang, but no. Look here:

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=scooch

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/scooch

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Sorted.

heyjude said:

It's a perfectly cromulent word.

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Oooh, you show-off. I bet you're bwilliant at Scwabble.

Sydneyd said:

Heh when I type scootched, it changes it to scotched, which is a completely different meaning.

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*doesn't mind being scotched*

RobJ said:

Oooh, you show-off. I bet you're bwilliant at Scwabble.

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I am! I am!

There are many legitimate words the spell checker doesn't like. When I find one that it gives me fits over, I just add it.


Remember, whoever programmed the spell checker was playing to the lowest common denominator. You are a writer. Do not be limited by such low expectations.

Skooch is a word:

cooch/sko͞oCH/
Verb:
Crouch or squat.
Move in or pass through a restricted space: "waiters kept trying to scooch by."

However, scooch is not.

Ever read Jack London? He made up words all the time. His novels had footnotes with the meaning of the word after saying he made them up.

However, if I read someone scooched on the sofa, I would say, "huh?"

I vote for scoot.

Ah ha, Rob looked elsewhere and just proved my "normal" dictionary wrong!