Editing Scrabble Adds 300 New Words To The Boardgame Including OK

Scrabble has added 300 new words to its boardgame, including everyday phrases such as 'OK' and 'ew'.<br><br>Merriam-Webster released the sixth edition of The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary, four years after the last [https://www.news24.com/news24/search?query=freshening freshening] up.<br><br>There are some sweet scorers now eligible for play, including bizjet, and some magical vowel dumps, such as arancini, which are Italian balls of cooked rice.<br><br>Other new acceptable words are aquafaba, beatdown, zomboid, twerk, sheeple, wayback, bokeh, botnet, emoji, facepalm, frowny, hivemind, puggle and nubber. <br><br><br><br><br>Scrabble has added 300 new words to its boardgame, including everyday phrases such as 'OK' and 'ew'<br><br>Bizjet, meaning a small plane used for business,  [https://www.casaverde.com.sg/ Kontol] would be worth a whopping 120 points on an opening play, but only if it is made into a plural with an 's'. <br><br>That is due to the 50-point bonus for using all seven tiles and the double word bonus space usually played at the start.<br><br>'OK is something Scrabble players have been waiting for, for a long time,' said lexicographer Peter Sokolowski, editor at large at Merriam-Webster.<br><br><br><br><br>RELATED ARTICLES<br><br>Previous<br><br>1<br><br>Next<br><br><br><br>British holidaymaker 'fights every day to survive' in Egypt... Champion stock car driver, 18, is revealed as a child rapist... <br><br><br><br>Share this article<br><br>Share<br><br><br>'Basically two and three-letter words are the lifeblood of the game.'<br><br>There is more good news in qapik - a unit of currency in Azerbaijan - adding to an arsenal of 20 playable words beginning with 'q' that do not need a 'u'.<br><br>'Every time there's a word with "q" and no "u", it's a big deal,' Sokolowski said. 'Most of these are obscure.' <br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>Other new acceptable words are yowza (shown), aquafaba, beatdown, zomboid, twerk, sheeple, wayback, bokeh, botnet, emoji, facepalm, frowny, hivemind, puggle and nubber<br><br><br><br><br><br>There are some sweet scorers now eligible for play, including bizjet, and some magical vowel dumps, such as arancini, which are Italian balls of cooked rice<br><br>The US dictionary company sought counsel from the North American Scrabble [https://www.tumblr.com/search/Players%20Association Players Association] when updating the book, Mr Sokolowski said, 'to make sure that they agree these words are desirable'.<br><br>Mr Sokolowski has a favorite among the new words but not, primarily, because of Scrabble scores.<br><br>'It's macaron,' he said, referring to the delicate French sandwich cookie featuring different flavors and fillings. 'I just like what it means,' he said.