Please God, don’t let Rob call Countdown a " Scrabble-style gameshow." He is British and he should know better.
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She’s keeping it clean-ish for BBC, but she’s done a deep dive of the interesting side of the dictionary:
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She has several books too, have not gotten round to reading, but they’re well reviewed.
I thought this was entipathy.
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Correction for you: It’s Channel 4 / ITV, not the BBC. Sorry. She definitely DID keep it clean-ish for the teatime hour that Countdown airs at but the network was wrong I am afraid. I love Countdown.
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I ran this past my wife and she also came up with ANTITYPE for an 8. (But she’s got a tournament scrabble rating of over 1800, so it’s hard to find something to stump her.)
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Thanks. Since I grab it all off youtube, I was confusing Channel 4 / ITV with BBC 4, which I know know are different things. Countdown and 8 out of 10 Cats does Countdown are lovely.
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I know, I was just looking for an excuse to post that Futurama clip. 
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Rumour has it that if a contestant wins a round of Countdown with a word that’s obscene enough that they can’t broadcast it, they film a fake round where they score the same number of points.
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Too bad about the extra “I”, otherwise Bart could have spelled “kwyjibo”. It’s a perfectly cromulent word.
I thought tinypathe meant “very little emotion”.
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I have had one of the worst days of my life today, can’t keep food down, and that still made me laugh. Thank you.
I wonder if he prefers tenticles, or other types. lol
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Then there’s Suzy Dent, the lexicographer on the 8 out of 10 cat’s variant of Countdown:
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That’s why I prefer Street Countdown.
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I think I prefer the original eight out of ten cats.
OSTRICH is worth 50 fewer points.
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