Attention, Scrabble enthusiasts! A whopping 300 new words have been added to Merriam-Webster’s Official Scrabble Players Dictionary, including a few that are sure to satisfy millennials and aggravate everyone else: Bitcoin, emoji and botnet. Merriam-Webster likes to keep up with the hip, younger crowd and often adds words that began as slang but infiltrated the average person’s vocabulary. […]
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‘Scrabble’ adds ’emoji’ and more words to its official dictionary
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It’s time to throw away your outdated dictionary and dust off those tiles, baby, because Scrabble is getting some new words.
The folks behind Scrabble are beefing up the official Scrabble player’s dictionary with 300 new words to keep up with the times and give veteran players some fresh verbs and nouns to memorize.
The 70-year-old board game will be putting out the sixth edition of Merriam-Webster’s The Official Scrabble Player’s Dictionary this fall, and although not all of the words are exactly new to the English-American lexicon, they’re certainly new to the competitive word game. Read more…
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View More ‘Scrabble’ adds ’emoji’ and more words to its official dictionaryTop competitive ‘Scrabble’ player faces three-year ban for double-dipping
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Who among us hasn’t cheated at Scrabble at some point?
That’s fine when you’re just trying to put one over on your kid sister. It’s less fine when you’re an actual competitive Scrabble player and you’re screwing over other top-tier competitors.
That’s the situation facing Scrabble pro Allan Simmons, who received a three-year ban from competitive play after the Association of British Scrabble Players leveled charges of cheating.
Simmons — who denied the accusation — was apparently spotted multiple times reaching into the bag of tiles for new letters, and then reaching back in again for different tiles after looking at what he’d gotten. It’s the Scrabble equivalent of double-dipping, and a big no-no in the competitive circuit. Read more…
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