Once again, Scrabblers have looked beyond textbook English to help “embiggen” their scores.
Consequently, at is extendible on the Scrabble rack, allowing for ats, atted and atting. Tournament jedis are ecstatic. Though nowhere near as jubilant as when qi and za were part of the 2006 makeover. Two-letter arrivals are gold, especially if they smuggle a heavy consonant.
For that’s the deeper story below the word list. Should I confirm vax as legit, plus vaxx , and the follow-on forms of vaxxed and vaxxing, then you may gripe. Your puritan impulse will lament how far our language has lapsed. Scrabblers, on the other hand, look beyond textbook English. Amirite is less a slip in grammatical vigilance than an invitation to claim a bonus 50 for using all your tiles.To Nigel Richards, the all-conquering Kiwi of the tiles, words are less meanings than patterns.
Where Scrabble agnostics will view guac as a needless snip of guacamole, true racketeers perceive a clunk-dump, namely a word allowing you to shed a few incompatible letters in order to refresh any future moves. Though Emmett Brosowsky, an American teen star, can also appreciate the dictionary update at a cultural level. “It’s nice to see pieces of my own vernacular start to be usable in Scrabble,” he told a recentMaking zuke and spork matter.
Word by imported word, the new list signals how omnivorous our language has become, widening the Edwardian village we once called home. Teatime may now entail matcha , kabocha pumpkin and maybe mofongo, the pickled bananas of Puerto Rico if you’re truly hangry.Compounds embody another subset, as modern writers jettison hyphens, or seal the gaps, across their prose. Consider autofill and pageview, deepfake and spitball, deadname and babymoon.
Despite the fanfare, however, you may stand in oppo to such skeezy additions, yelling ixnay at this whole thingie . Pushed to shove, you may even succumb to grawlix , yet 500 new words represent less a bleak day for English than a chance to embiggen your Scrabble ammo, amirite? And your score.
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