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New scrabble dictionary - when?
About a year ago I read reports of a new edition of the Scrabble dictionary for North American use - the reports said it would be ready early in 2005. That's now! Has anyone heard anything new about this? I haven't found anything online.
(apparently ZA and QI are both to be included, which will change things quite a bit - neither Z nor Q has any 2-letter plays in the current North American Scrabble dictionary)
(apparently ZA and QI are both to be included, which will change things quite a bit - neither Z nor Q has any 2-letter plays in the current North American Scrabble dictionary)
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[nq:1]About a year ago I read reports of a new edition of the Scrabble dictionary for North American use - ... things quite a bit - neither Z nor Q has any 2-letter plays in the current North American Scrabble dictionary)[/nq] According to the latest information the research was supposed to have been finished by the end of 2004, but the last reports went in about a week into January. There is supposed to be a meeting of the National Scrabble Association's Dictionary Committee to decide on some ground rules for excluding some of the possibilities they've found; I gather that CPU and RBI are potential candidates here.
- [nq:1]About a year ago I read reports of a new edition of the Scrabble dictionary for North American use - ...
- things quite a bit - neither Z nor Q has any 2-letter plays in the current North American Scrabble dictionary)[/nq] According to the latest information the research was supposed to have been finished by the end of 2004, but the last reports went in about a week into January.
- There is supposed to be a meeting of the National Scrabble Association's Dictionary Committee to decide on some ground rules for excluding some of the possibilities they've found; I gather that CPU and RBI are potential candidates here.
- They're also going to have to come up wuth an excuse to bar pH and PDQ as well.
- My guess is that they'll publish in about 3 or 4 months.
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[nq:1]About a year ago I read reports of a new edition of the Scrabble dictionary for North American use - ... things quite a bit - neither Z nor Q has any 2-letter plays in the current North American Scrabble dictionary)[/nq]
According to the latest information the research was supposed to have been finished by the end of 2004, but the last reports went in about a week into January.
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According to the latest information the research was supposed to have been finished by the end of 2004, but the last reports went in about a week into January.
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[nq:2]There is supposed to be a meeting of the National ... wuth an excuse to bar pH and PDQ as well.[/nq]
[nq:1]Aren't acronyms/initialisations already excluded? That gets rid of Central Processing Unit, Runs Batted In, parts Hydrogen, and Pretty Darn Quick.[/nq]
Acronyms and initializations are already excluded, but the snag is that the source dictionaries don't mark the words men
[nq:1]Aren't acronyms/initialisations already excluded? That gets rid of Central Processing Unit, Runs Batted In, parts Hydrogen, and Pretty Darn Quick.[/nq]
Acronyms and initializations are already excluded, but the snag is that the source dictionaries don't mark the words men
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[nq:2]About a year ago I read reports of a new ... heard anything new about this? I haven't found anything online.(snip)[/nq]
[nq:1]According to the latest information the research was supposed to have been finished by the end of 2004, but the last reports went in about a week into January.(snip) My guess is that they'll publish in about 3 or 4 months.[/nq]
Thanks for the information. Inte
[nq:1]According to the latest information the research was supposed to have been finished by the end of 2004, but the last reports went in about a week into January.(snip) My guess is that they'll publish in about 3 or 4 months.[/nq]
Thanks for the information. Inte
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[nq:1](snip)[/nq]
So the blue-footed booby is an endangered species, scrabblistically speaking?
So the blue-footed booby is an endangered species, scrabblistically speaking?
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[nq:1]Thanks for the information. Interesting about the acronyms - some of those are allowed already under international rules, right? Like "pH". I wonder if you know whether there's any movement to remove "pH" and others from the international wordlist?[/nq]
The bit of the international word list that isn't derived from the American word list is also being revised. Various noises have been ma
The bit of the international word list that isn't derived from the American word list is also being revised. Various noises have been ma
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[nq:1]Thanks, I knew my prof had retronymed it.[/nq]
And badly. "Parts" doesn't suggest a logarithmic scale (which pH is) nor that the scale runs backwards (lower values are more ionised hydrogen - yes, I know that's a simplification, but this isn't a chemistry group).
Gone off topic for rec.games.board, so I've set Followups (where I'm not).
Christopher Dearlove
And badly. "Parts" doesn't suggest a logarithmic scale (which pH is) nor that the scale runs backwards (lower values are more ionised hydrogen - yes, I know that's a simplification, but this isn't a chemistry group).
Gone off topic for rec.games.board, so I've set Followups (where I'm not).
Christopher Dearlove
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[nq:1]Strange how my dictionary(1), which was published less than a year ago, lists all four as abbreviations and initialisations. Is one of the Webster's trying to change the language again?[/nq]
The American update project is using four dictionaries. One of them is Webster's New World College Dictionary , 4th edition, and that has RBI in it as a lower-case non-abbreviation. CPU and PH are in
The American update project is using four dictionaries. One of them is Webster's New World College Dictionary , 4th edition, and that has RBI in it as a lower-case non-abbreviation. CPU and PH are in
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[nq:1]Acronyms and initializations are already excluded, but the snag is that the source dictionaries don't mark the words mentioned above as such. (They do mention the acronymic derivation, of course.) Theyare given as perfectly normal lower-case words (except for pH,naturally), just like SCUBA and RADAR.[/nq]
I'm clearly missing something here. "Scuba" and "radar" are acronyms.
I'm clearly missing something here. "Scuba" and "radar" are acronyms.
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I don't know about Scrabble folk in general, but I was using it, loosely perhaps, as a subset of "abbreviation".
# The MWCD11 entry is:
# Main Entry:acronym
# Pronunciation:*a-kr*-*nim
# Function:noun
# Etymology:acr- + -onym
# Date:1943
# : a word (as NATO, radar, or snafu) formed from the initial letter or # letters of each of the successive parts or major parts of a
# The MWCD11 entry is:
# Main Entry:acronym
# Pronunciation:*a-kr*-*nim
# Function:noun
# Etymology:acr- + -onym
# Date:1943
# : a word (as NATO, radar, or snafu) formed from the initial letter or # letters of each of the successive parts or major parts of a
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I love the fact that the expurgation process involves coming up with a list of potentially offensive words, all together in concentrated form for convenience of ***-loving children who surely couldn't be bothered to comb the whole dictionary to find new rude words, but who will find it very easy to download a list of expurgated words from one of many Scrabble fan sites. Oh, the hilarity.
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