My friend Mark Nyman (a former World Champion at Scrabble as well as a former producer at Countdown) has an encyclopaedic knowledge of the words that are allowable in Scrabble. Check out to find out more.Р”В¬hampion Scrabble players have vast vocabularies. There are now one-day or weekend tournaments somewhere in the British Isles nearly every week, organised by local clubs and individuals with results rated by the ABSP. The Association of British Scrabble Players was formed in 1987 as an organisation to oversee UK tournament Scrabble and its associated rating system. Yes, there have been and are other enjoyable word games (Bananagrams is another of my favourites), but none can rival Scrabble. You name it, we found a Scrabble angle to it. We had Scrabble on TV, Scrabble clothes (I had several Scrabble jumpers), Travel Scrabble, computer Scrabble. We need a national competition to find the best player in the land.РІР‚в„ўР”Р‡rom that first national championship, the Scrabble movement grew and grew: competitions proliferated, standards rose, sales soared.

I thought, РІР‚ВThis is game enjoyed by Her Majesty and those detained at Her MajestyРІР‚в„ўs pleasure: itРІР‚в„ўs a game for everyone. I had visited Bristol Prison and seen some inmates playing Scrabble. I was writing a book about prison reform at the time.

ThatРІР‚в„ўs how I came to found the National Scrabble Championships in 1971.

I would go so far as to say I had become a Scrabble evangelist: I wanted to spread the word of the worldРІР‚в„ўs most wonderful word game. It does.Р”В«y the time I left university, at the beginning of the 1970s, I had become a Scrabble obsessive. At 100, he believed Scrabble kept his mind alive. In the 1960s he was playing Scrabble with me. In the 1890s, he knew Oscar Wilde, whose eldest son, Cyril, was a pupil at Bedales. He claimed they had been current when he had first learned them. I told him he was cheating because he used words that were obsolete. He was in his late nineties then and played a mean game. The founder of the school, J H Badley (1863-1965), lived in the school grounds and on Wednesday afternoons I was sent to play a game of Scrabble with him. When I was thirteen I was sent to a boarding school called Bedales in Hampshire. Much of my life-long love of words I owe to this extraordinary game. In the early 1950s, almost from the age I could walk and talk, I was playing Scrabble. After the Second World War, when Scrabble was introduced to Britain my parents bought one of the first sets to be sold here. He met my mother (a teacher) playing Monopoly. In 1936, my father (a lawyer) bought one of the first sets of Monopoly sold in Britain. I love Scrabble! I come from a family of word-lovers and board game enthusiasts. The UK edition refers to the Collins Scrabble Words 2015 edition, used in English-language tournament Scrabble in most countries except the USA, Thailand and Canada.) (The US edition refers to the new Merriam-Webster sixth edition of The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary, used in North America. UK edition РІР‚вЂњ dance provocatively by moving the hips rapidly back and forth while raising and lowering the body in a squatting motion US edition - to dance by shaking the buttocks while squatting US edition - a person who someone likes very much Played as a game-opener with an РІР‚ВsРІР‚в„ў on the end it would score 120 points, with the 50-point bonus for using all seven tiles and the double-word star US edition - a small plane used for business The word was in earlier editions but apparently removed in 1961 because not enough people were using it. UK edition РІР‚вЂњ Not allowed (but OKAY is okay) Here is a sampling of these new Scrabble dictionary words:Р”В®w joins another 106 two-letter words in the US Scrabble Dictionary: edition: the UK Scrabble Dictionary one has 124. My feeling is: donРІР‚в„ўt resist the new words: take them on board, relax and enjoy. The reason English is such a rich language is because it takes on new words and novel word variants all the time. IРІР‚в„ўm ok with abbreviations and comfortable with slang. I like new words - and I like variations on old words. Some will be allowed in the US, but not in the UK. This new Scrabble dictionary features 300 words new to the world of competitive Scrabble. Well, I founded the National Scrabble Championships a while back and I am the proud President of the Association of British Scrabble Players. Why? Because a new Scrabble dictionary is just out and IРІР‚в„ўm a bit of an authority on Scrabble. IРІР‚в„ўve spent the day fielding phone calls and enquiries from newspapers and radio stations.

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