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Scrabble dictionary adds hundreds of words. Do you know them? (via Metafilter)
Thanks for the article on Charlotte Cushman!
ReplyDeleteJust out of curiosity, I checked, and 'bae' is now in the Scrabble dictionary (incidentally, the spellcheck in Windows 10 still flags it as a non-word), and I had to Google 'atting' to find out what it meant.
ReplyDeleteAnd words like 'guac', 'swole', 'dox', 'vax', and 'folx' are all good? And loanwords from Sweden and Islam? At least the common mispronunciation of 'ask' ('aks') is still a no-no — for now, anyway.
I know languages evolve, but usually it's for the better, not because we're a bunch of lazy-assed clods who can't be bothered to learn to spell or type out (or even SPEAK) in complete words.
So adieu, Scrabble. You were a good game that favored the educated and literate, now shot to hell.
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Haven't had the time to check all the new scrabble words, but I'll get to that soonish.
ReplyDeleteBack in the day if you wanted to know if a word was valid, not just for scrabble but general use, no problem, just look in the dictionary. Now days what dictionary? Is online cool or must be in print? How do you settle disagreements between dictionaries?
ReplyDeleteLife is hard.