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This is in the spirit of the What is a Word/Phrase™ series started by JLee with a special brand of Phrase™ and Word™ puzzles.

If a word conforms to a special rule, I call it a Date Word™ word. Here is a list of Date™ and Not Date™ Words:

Date Word™ Not Date Word™
SODA COKE
FANDOM SUPPORT
MADMAN CRAZY
SOFA COUCH
MOANS CRIES
JAM MARMALADE
DON LORD
MAMAS PAPAS
JAFA CAKE

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Date Word™,Not Date Word™
SODA,COKE
FANDOM,SUPPORT
MADMAN,CRAZY
SOFA,COUCH
MOANS,CRIES
JAM,MARMALADE
DON,LORD
MAMAS,PAPAS
JAFA,CAKE
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  • $\begingroup$ Welcome to Puzzling! Have you read our guidelines for these sorts of puzzles? I've added the standard table and fixed your hyperlinks - you can look in the question's source text to see how. $\endgroup$
    – bobble
    Dec 8, 2020 at 18:25
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    $\begingroup$ Is the misspelling of Jaffa intentional? $\endgroup$
    – Bass
    Dec 8, 2020 at 18:47

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A Date Word only contain letters used as the first letter of a month's name:

January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December

J,F,M,A,M,J,J,A,S,O,N,D

Moreover, a letter from this list should be used only once per word.


A Not Date Word is not limited by those letters.

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