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I Dumped Apple's Fucking Word List

Hacker News | Nov 3, 2026 | speckx

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Apple's system dictionary flags every word with one of three tiers (vulgar, offensive, sensitive) and up to eleven topic flags (sex, drugs, religion, politics, violence, …). The sensitive tier has 109 capitalized words. Norwegian calls idiot offensive and English calls it sensitive.

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