#Official scrabble dictionary cracker

Scrabble was first trademarked as such in 1948, after it was thought up under a different name in 1933 by Alfred Mosher Butts, an out-of-work architect in Poughkeepsie, New York. Other foreigners added because they predominantly no longer require linguistic white gloves, such as italics or quotation marks: bibimbap, cotija and sriracha.

Say hello to schneid, another of the new kids, this one with German roots. There’s often chatter around Scrabble boards over which foreign words have been accepted into English to the degree they’re playable. Like ew, there’s another interjection now in play, yowza, along with a word some might have thought was already allowed: zen. Traditionally, they were not in the dictionary but because so much of our communication is texting and social media that is written language, we are finding more transcribed speech and getting a new group of spellings for the dictionary,” he said. Sounds like ew or mm-hmm, or other things like coulda or kinda.

“I think ew is interesting because it expresses something new about what we’re seeing in language, which is to say that we are now incorporating more of what you might call transcribed speech. There are other new entries Sokolowski likes, from a wordsmith’s view. Remembering San Antonio-born Tejano legend Emilio Navaira.Texas park mapping 'longest' dinosaur tracks revealed by drought.Mötley Crüe rocks San Antonio's Alamodome with stellar performance.

#Official scrabble dictionary cracker

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Since an official dictionary was created, it has been updated every four to eight years, Sokolowski said. Before that, the game’s rules called for any desk dictionary to be consulted. Merriam-Webster put out the first official Scrabble dictionary in 1976. “It’s macaron,” he said, referring to the delicate French sandwich cookie featuring different flavors and fillings. Sokolowski has a favorite among the new words but not, primarily, because of Scrabble scores. The Springfield, Massachusetts-based dictionary company sought counsel from the North American Scrabble Players Association when updating the book, Sokolowski said, “to make sure that they agree these words are desirable.” That’s due to the 50-point bonus for using all seven tiles and the double word bonus space usually played at the start. Bizjet, meaning - yes - a small plane used for business, would be worth a whopping 120 points on an opening play, but only if it’s made into a plural with an s. There are some sweet scorers now eligible for play, including bizjet, and some magical vowel dumps, such as arancini, those Italian balls of cooked rice. “Every time there’s a word with q and no u, it’s a big deal,” Sokolowski said. Not that Scrabblers care all that much about definitions, qapik is a unit of currency in Azerbaijan. There’s more good news in qapik, adding to an arsenal of 20 playable words beginning with q that don’t need a u. RELATED: Puro San Antonio words added to the Merriam-Webster dictionary in 2018