![]() ![]() Merriam-Webster put out the first official Scrabble dictionary in 1976. "It's macaron," he said, referring to the delicate French sandwich cake featuring different flavours and fillings. Mr Sokolowski has a favourite among the new words but not, primarily, because of Scrabble scores. The Springfield, Massachusetts-based dictionary company sought counsel from the North American Scrabble Players Association when updating the book, Mr Sokolowski said, "to make sure that they agree these words are desirable". The dictionary is including more words from transcribed speech like, ew. That is due to the 50-point bonus for using all seven tiles and the double word bonus space usually played at the start. There are some big scorers now eligible for play, including bizjet, and some magical vowel dumps, like arancini.Ä«izjet, meaning a small plane used for business, would be worth a whopping 120 points on an opening play, but only if it is made into a plural with an s. "Every time there's a word with q and no u, it's a big deal," Mr Sokolowski said. Not that Scrabblers care all that much about definitions, qapik is a monetary unit in Azerbaijan. There is more good news in qapik, adding to an arsenal of 20 playable words beginning with q that do not need a u. ![]() "Basically two- and three-letter words are the lifeblood of the game." "OK is something Scrabble players have been waiting for, for a long time," said lexicographer Peter Sokolowski, editor at large at Merriam-Webster. Scrabble players will now be able to use words like OK and ew after US dictionary company Merriam-Webster added 300 new words to the sixth edition of The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary.
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