Sriracha, yowza, and sheeple among 300 new words in Scrabble dictionary

[dontpanicbobby]

@TobinL

ETA well I guess you could say unchallenged fake words as not words… but the rules say it stands if it isn’t challenged and I have let them stay on the board cause it gave me the hook for my bingo.

@joeair61

The internet ruined Scrabble. Now you can look up an official word in a few seconds.The most fun part of the game was someone yelling "Get the dictionary, Get the dictionary ! ".

No one ever actually got the dictionary, but that went on for half an hour. Should have been a Seinfeld bit.

Now that’s my kind of Scrabble!
Bluff until someone yells “Challenge. Get the Dictionary! Get the Dictionary!. No way is that a word” You can’t do that in Online Scrabble though which is sad.

[Beanolini]

@Bunbain

Inspector Gadget’s been saying “yowza” since the 80’s.

Apparently it was also a radio catchphrase in the 1920s.

[ChuckV]

[the_borderer]

@Scurra

on the other hand, I have played “reverse Scrabble” with my game group, in which you were only allowed to play words that aren’t in the dictionary, but which you had to justify by putting the word plausibly into a sentence (thus avoiding just random letter sequences.)

Jozxyqk

[gtmac]

Would it at all help to know that Scrabble isn’t a word game? It’s a math game where the valid plays are permutations of letters that appear in the Scrabble dictionary (or a different source agreed upon by the players). It is only a word game in as much as one can use their knowledge of the language to help memorize or intuit valid permutations.

The fact that you deem some of the permutations in the Scrabble dictionary as “not words” is irrelevant to the playing of the game. It’s probably more apt to say that you would not agree to play a game with the Scrabble dictionary as a source.

For what it’s worth I agree that some of the “words” in the Scrabble dictionary shouldn’t be there, but not because they’re not words. Za (short for pizza?!) and Qi (a non-English word) are permitted as well, but I’m guessing they were only added to keep Scrabble relevant in the age of Words With Friends which is intentionally permissive in its permutations so as to draw a wider and younger audience. This in turn increases their monetization.

[TobinL]

@gtmac

Za (short for pizza?!) and Qi (a non-English word) are permitted as well

Those had been in SOWPODS (discussed above) for years before getting into TWL though. Blame the loons in the UK for those. I don’t mind QI as it is an easier Q dump than QAT.

[ChuckV]

Wow, the Scrabble thread got pruned.

There must be a word for what I’m feeling…

[gtmac]

@TobinL

I don’t mind QI as it is an easier Q dump than QAT.

That’s exactly my point about WWF.

[FGD135]

[orenwolf]

@davide405

Sriracha, yowza, and sheeple among 300 hundred new words in Scrabble dictionary
{emphasis added}

So that’s 30,000 new words? Really

Fixed. Thanks.

[Melz2]

@ChuckV

There must be a word for what I’m feeling…

Contumelious?

I known the scorn I felt when reading all the needless snobbery was almost Brobdingnagian.

[TobinL]

@Bemopolis

(random parenthetical bullshit to reach the character minimum thanks for ruining my joke BB)

EH?   

[reactionabe]

@Scurra

Arabic transliterations for which the letter K in English would be a much better choice.)

Disagree. Q is a replacement for the arabic voiceless uvular plosive (ق) which is distinct from K. Eg. Koran is less correct than Quran.

[Scurra]

I bow to superior wisdom; on the other hand, words incorporated into English do tend to lose the subtleties of native pronounciation…
(I still think there’s a significant problem for Scrabble with those words, but that’s a different issue.)