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Re: Scrabble, Officially
by Les Albert <lalbert1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Mar 27, 2008 at 09:22 AM
| On Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:12:08 GMT, Bill Kinkaid <davelister@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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wrote:
>On Thu, 27 Mar 2008 03:28:51 -0600, Greg Goss <gossg@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>And AA and QI are not words either. Once you start inserting words
>>into the dictionary because they yield neat scores, it's not a game I
>>will be playing with you.
>Aa is a slow moving basaltic lava with a rough surface.
>Qi is a nebulous concept from Chinese philosophy meaning "life force"
>or some such. Often heard when people are talking about feng shui, and
>has been co-opted by some new-agey types.
>But aa is a Hawaiian word and qi is Chinese. Where do they draw the
>line as to what words are proper English words and what are foreign
>language words?
"The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary was first published in 1978
through the efforts of the National Scrabble Association Dictionary
Committee and Merriam-Webster. The OSPD was developed as the word
authority for NSA-sanctioned clubs and tournaments. Selchow and
Righter, the owners of Scrabble at the time, proposed that words
contained in at least one of the following five dictionaries should be
in the OSPD: Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Eighth Edition
(1973), Funk & Wagnalls Dictionary of the English Language (1973), The
American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (1969), Webster's
New World Dictionary, Second College Edition (1970), and The Random
House College Dictionary (1968)."
Les


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