The New Scrabble Dictionary: Game Weary?
goes the Latin phrase
stored somewhere in my brain as a memorandum
occasionally to amaze.
It means that to argue about taste
there is no use,
since where one may find a refuge from sterile waste,
another sees abuse.
Just last night they celebrated the end of Letterman
after thirty or so years
but I wish they had much earlier found a better man--
he bored me to tears.
Another activity in which I never cared to dabble
while seated at a table
is that strange game known as Scrabble
at which many seem able.
But now I think they've gone too far
with their new Dictionary--
which can teeth grind and senses jar
by its entries fictionary.
Some of the new words like "Lotz" and "Schizzle" sound to me "ridic"---
"cakehole" also seems a strange thing to say...when not started with an "A"
and "bezzy", too, sounds crazy.
However, I may probably not qualified as a word or game critic
since I've also never been too fond
of either Mah Jong or Mao Zedong.
hzl
5/22/15
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Linda Williams of Laurel places her letters down during a 2001 Scrabble tournament sponsored by the National Scrabble Association Club 171. (Michael DiBari Jr./The Washington Post)Pwn (8 points, to dominate an opponent). Thanx (15 points, thanks). Bezzy ( 18 points, several meanings, not all of which are printable).Do these words sound “ridic” (8 points, ridiculous)? Collins, which publishes the official dictionary for the World English-Language Scrabble Players Association, doesn’t think so. All four terms, along with about 6,500 others, are included in its updated list of Official Scrabble Words released Thursday.Some of the additions are new because the concepts they describe are fairly new themselves, like “Facetime” (15 points, to speak with someone over video
